Updated 2026-08-06 · ranked by real download data

Best open coding models

Ranked nightly from our download snapshots of the Hugging Face catalog. Every entry shows its licence and what hardware it realistically needs.

#ModelParamsContextCommercial use30dMin VRAM
01 Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF unsloth · text-generation ✓ apache-2.0 4.7 M from 12.9 GB
02 Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct Qwen · text-generation 14.8 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 3.0 M from 35.2 GB
03 Qwen3-Coder-Next-FP8 Qwen · text-generation 79.7 B 262 K ✓ apache-2.0 2.2 M from 100.9 GB
04 Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct Qwen · text-generation 7.6 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 2.0 M from 18.4 GB
05 Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct-AWQ Qwen · text-generation 32.8 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 1.7 M from 26.7 GB
06 Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct Qwen · text-generation 30.5 B 262 K ✓ apache-2.0 1.5 M from 72.3 GB
07 Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-FP8 Qwen · text-generation 30.5 B 262 K ✓ apache-2.0 1.4 M from 39.4 GB
08 Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Qwen · text-generation 32.8 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 1.2 M from 77.5 GB
09 Qwen2.5-Coder-7B Qwen · text-generation 7.6 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 1.0 M from 18.4 GB
10 Qwen3-Coder-Next-FP8-dynamic RedHatAI · text-generation 79.8 B 262 K ✓ apache-2.0 864 K from 102.4 GB
11 Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct Qwen · text-generation 1.5 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 728 K from 4.1 GB
12 Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-AWQ Orion-zhen · text-generation 7.6 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 604 K from 7.9 GB
13 deepseek-coder-7b-instruct-v1.5 deepseek-ai · text-generation 6.9 B 4 K other 599 K from 16.7 GB
14 Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ-4bit cyankiwi · text-generation 5.3 B 262 K ✓ apache-2.0 583 K from 21.2 GB
15 DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct deepseek-ai · text-generation 15.7 B 164 K other 557 K from 37.4 GB
16 Qwen3-Coder-Next Qwen · text-generation 79.7 B 262 K ✓ apache-2.0 554 K from 187.7 GB
17 deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruct deepseek-ai · text-generation 6.7 B 16 K other 553 K from 16.3 GB
18 Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int4 Qwen · text-generation 7.6 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 536 K from 7.8 GB
19 Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-AWQ Qwen · text-generation 7.6 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 522 K from 7.8 GB
20 Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct-AWQ Qwen · text-generation 14.8 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 406 K from 13.7 GB
21 CodeLlama-7b-hf codellama · text-generation 6.7 B 16 K ⚠ llama2 356 K from 16.3 GB
22 Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-FP8 Qwen · text-generation 480.2 B 262 K ✓ apache-2.0 327 K from 602.9 GB
23 gemma-4-12B-coder-fable5-composer2.5-v1-GGUF yuxinlu1 · text-generation ✓ apache-2.0 298 K from 5.8 GB
24 Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-AWQ QuantTrio · text-generation 30.5 B 262 K ✓ apache-2.0 254 K from 23.6 GB
25 tiny_starcoder_py bigcode · text-generation 160 M bigcode-openrail-m 249 K from 1.2 GB
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