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HN · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 329 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: llm benchmarking tools · 84 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The website is a lightweight client-side simulator that streams sample text at preset tokens-per-second intervals based on a static benchmark lookup table.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: OpenCode Zen, OpenRouter, llamacpp, vllm
Concerns raised: inaccurate or optimistic throughput benchmarks, doesn't account for multi-gpu or offloading layers to CPU, real-world agentic workload mismatch vs synthetic benchmarks, incorrect memory usage estimates per token, erroneous warnings about model quantization fit
Feature requests: multi-GPU support, NVFP4 variants for Blackwell hardware, Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite support, RTX Spark laptops benchmark support, allow configurations below 12GB
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 231 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 232 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 352 days after the earliest competitor.
- Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks · hn · 2026-05-15 · 283 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- LLMSpeed · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Rapid-MLX · hn · 2026-04-18 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- A tiny LLM running at 21,000 tok/s on a $250 FPGA (Live Demo) · hn · 2026-08-10 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Local AI · hn · 2026-02-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- local-llm-performance-profile-switcher · github · 2026-10-19 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Makes local LLMs faster and more reliable by optimizing for your device · hn · 2026-06-30 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- PocketOrca-LLM · github · 2026-09-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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