Qwen3-Coder
apache 2.0 confirmed in the licence text, a million tokens of context, and now a version small enough to actually run.
the cleanest licence and the longest context in the category, with a february variant that finally makes it deployable outside a datacentre.
apache 2.0, and we read the licence file rather than trusting the model-card badge — no revenue cap, no use restrictions, no naming mandate. after codestral's non-production bar and devstral's revenue cliff, that plainness is the argument.
262,144 tokens natively, extendable to a million through yarn, which is what makes repository-scale agentic coding practical rather than aspirational. the flagship is 480b total with 35b active.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- coding llms
- pricing
- free (apache 2.0)
- website
- huggingface.co
the cleanest licence and the longest context in the category, with a february variant that finally makes it deployable outside a datacentre.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.
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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.
Seed-Coder-8B
we checked thisfree (mit)plain mit, native fill-in-the-middle, and it fits in five gigabytes — the practical local pick.