AI Security Benchmark Results: Cloud vs Local Model Performance Comparison
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Summary
The article presents benchmark results from HomeSec-Bench, a comprehensive evaluation of AI models for security applications. The benchmark includes 96 tests across 15 suites covering tool use, security classification, and event deduplication. Results show cloud-based models like GPT-5.4 achieving the highest pass rates (97.9%), while local models like Qwen3.5-9B running on Apple Silicon perform competitively with 93.8% pass rate, within 4 points of the top cloud model. The benchmark compares performance and speed between cloud and local AI deployments for security tasks.
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· 4 pulledQwen3.5-9B scores 93.8% on 96 real security AI tests — within 4 points of GPT-5.4 — running entirely on Apple Silicon
96-test evaluation across 15 suites covering tool use, security classification, event deduplication, and more
GPT-5.4 Cloud 94 2 97.9% 2m 22s
Qwen3.5-9B (Q4_K_M) Local 90 6 93.8% 5m 23s
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