> None of these tools make use of local GPU whatsoever.
You can use local models with most of those, you’d just need to get something like Ollama, LM Studio or vLLM working - but that’s the boring and not flashy part, it’s probably easier to name the dev tools.
Copilot: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/copilot-cli/custo... (also worked in Visual Studio Code)
Claude Code: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/model-config (here’s an example of a custom config in the wild with DeepSeek, same principle for local connection https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/agent_integrations/clau...)
Cursor: couldn’t find official docs but here’s z.AI docs https://docs.z.ai/devpack/tool/cursor (same principle for local API)