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.

5 listed · 5 researched by us · featured first, then most upvoted

Qwen3-Coder

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

DeepSeek Coder

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

Seed-Coder-8B

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

Granite (IBM)

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

Devstral

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

this page is deliberately short: a handful of coding llms we looked at properly, rather than everything that exists. if you build one that belongs here, a free listing takes two minutes and $50 pins it to the top of this page.

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