Deepseek 14b and 32b should be good enough, they are based on Alibaba's Qwen model and usually the best models from opensource 40b or less. Deepseek 8b is base

Deepseek 14b and 32b should be good enough, they are based on Alibaba's Qwen model and usually the best models from opensource 40b or less. Deepseek 8b is based on Meta's Llama3 I would say 70b doesn't worth the cost in comparison to 32b except coding... but if you want a model for coding, then you should try a model specifically trained for that, like Deepseek-Coder or Mistral's Codestral. Deepseek-r1 is considered a general use AI. It would do good enough at many topics but won't excel on everything.