coding llms

the models themselves rather than the assistants built on them, ranked on what the licence file permits and what fits on hardware you own.

10 listed · 8 of them researched by us · featured first, then most upvoted

fully open code model with training data and pipeline released

#fully-open#reproducible

small code models trained on oss-derived synthetic instructions

#research#small

we checked thisfree (apache 2.0)

apache 2.0 confirmed in the licence text, a million tokens of context, and now a version small enough to actually run.

#repository-scale-agentic#the-licence-both-need-to

we checked thisfree (mit)

the brand is now an api alias — and the models behind it went from a restrictive weights licence to plain mit.

#frontier-tier-coding-whe

we checked thisfree (mit)

plain mit, native fill-in-the-middle, and it fits in five gigabytes — the practical local pick.

#editor-completion-on-you#where-latency-beats-lead

we checked thisfree (apache 2.0)

apache 2.0, native fim, half a million tokens of context — and the dedicated code line is officially deprecated.

#enterprises-wanting-unam#very-long-context-at-siz

we checked thisfree below the threshold

the small one is apache 2.0 and the big one stops working for you the month you pass $20m in revenue.

#agentic-coding-scaffolds#at-24b-for-anyone#at-123b-for-companies-un

we checked thisfree (mit, unverified)

near-frontier coding under what its badge says is mit — and the licence file itself returns 404.

#hosted-agentic-coding-th#where-you-won-t-be-self-

we checked thisfree (openrail-m)

600 languages at two gigabytes, under a licence whose conditions you have to pass on to your own users.

#broad-language-coverage-#for-teams-willing-to-car

we checked thisresearch use only

downloadable, and forbidden in production — the licence is a flat non-commercial bar, not a threshold.

#research#evaluation#prototypes-that-will-nev

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