Updated 2026-11-10 · 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 Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct +2 variants Qwen · text-generation 14.8 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 1.9 M from 35.2 GB
02 Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct +4 variants Qwen · text-generation 30.5 B 262 K ✓ apache-2.0 1.6 M from 72.3 GB
03 Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct +5 variants Qwen · text-generation 7.6 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 1.3 M from 18.4 GB
04 Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct-AWQ +2 variants Qwen · text-generation 32.8 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 972 K from 26.7 GB
05 Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct Qwen · text-generation 3.1 B 33 K other 441 K from 7.8 GB
06 sqlcoder-7b-2 defog · text-generation 6.7 B 16 K cc-by-sa-4.0 441 K from 6.8 GB
07 Qwen3-Coder-Next +3 variants Qwen · text-generation 79.7 B 262 K ✓ apache-2.0 426 K from 187.7 GB
08 Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct +1 variant Qwen · text-generation 1.5 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 402 K from 4.1 GB
09 Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B Qwen · text-generation 1.5 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 387 K from 4.1 GB
10 Qwen2.5-Coder-7B Qwen · text-generation 7.6 B 33 K ✓ apache-2.0 377 K from 18.4 GB
11 xflux_text_encoders XLabs-AI · text-generation 4.8 B — ✓ apache-2.0 288 K from 11.7 GB
12 Kwaipilot_KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev-GGUF bartowski · text-generation — — ✓ apache-2.0 257 K from 11.3 GB
13 Yi-Coder-9B-Chat-GGUF MaziyarPanahi · text-generation — — unknown 201 K from 2.7 GB
14 deepseek-coder-7b-instruct-v1.5 deepseek-ai · text-generation 6.9 B 4 K other 172 K from 16.7 GB
15 CodeLlama-7b-hf codellama · text-generation 6.7 B 16 K ⚠ llama2 151 K from 16.3 GB
16 Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct Qwen · text-generation 480.2 B 262 K ✓ apache-2.0 58 K from 1,128.9 GB
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