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Not sure whether to run a local open-weight model on your GPU or subscribe to a cloud website? Answer 3 quick questions below to find your best matches in plain English.

FIND MY AI · DECISION HELPERNot sure whether to run a local model or use a cloud website?Pick your goal below — we'll match your exact GPU & budget in plain English.

1. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?

2. TECHNICAL COMFORT LEVEL

3. MONTHLY BUDGET

BEST INSTANT WEBSITE (ZERO SETUP)

Cursor Free tier / $20 mo

It's a wrapper — you're paying $20/mo for orchestration on top of GPT/Claude. Only worth it if it saves you 1+ hour per week. Otherwise, self-host Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.

Inspect Cursor →Open Website ↗

BEST FREE LOCAL ENGINE FOR YOUR 24GB GPU

Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct GRADE S

Runs great at Q4_K_M (5GB VRAM · ~141 tok/s). 100% Free & Private.

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DOUBT CLEARED · WHICH SHOULD YOU PICK?

Plain-English Verdict

Your 24GB GPU gets a Grade S (98/100) on Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct (~141 tok/s)! Self-host it for $0/mo, or use Cursor when away from your PC.

Est. Annual Savings Local vs $20/mo SaaS: $240 / yr saved

Top Verified Models in Coding

8 SUGGESTIONSView full category →

●LOCAL • 86/100

StarCoder2-15B

BigCode / ServiceNow

Trained on 4+ trillion tokens across 600+ programming languages from The Stack v2. Transparent, permissively trained code generation workhorse.

BASE ARCHITECTURE / StarCoder2-15B (dense)

SRuns well (85/100) • Q4_K_M (~71 tok/s • 14GB free)

ℹTHE BRUTAL TRUTH

Enterprise legal teams love the clean training dataset provenance. Good autocomplete, but shorter context than modern models.

No cardLocalAPIOpen weightsHF

ILLUSTRATIVE PROMPT

Write a Python data validator using Pydantic v2 with custom field serializers.

PREVIEW NOTE

A typed Pydantic BaseModel with @field_validator and model_serializer functions.

612

Hugging Face↗

●CLOUD • 93/100

Claude

Anthropic

Anthropic's assistant, known for long-document reasoning, nuanced writing, and coding, with context windows up to 1M tokens on higher tiers.

BASE ARCHITECTURE / Claude Sonnet / Opus 4.x

SInstant Cloud Web Studio (0 GB VRAM • Free / $20 mo+)

ℹTHE BRUTAL TRUTH

The only consumer assistant with a real 1M context that works. If you read 200+ page documents, this is the one. Otherwise, ChatGPT's ecosystem wins.

API

ILLUSTRATIVE PROMPT

Summarise a 400-page technical document with section-level citations.

PREVIEW NOTE

Illustrative long-context task; not executed here.

1,178

Launch↗

●LOCAL • 94/100

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct

Alibaba / Qwen

Alibaba Qwen's flagship open-weight coding model with 32.5B dense parameters, supporting a 128K context window with verified state-of-the-art Python, TypeScript, and multi-language code generation.

BASE ARCHITECTURE / Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct

BRuns well (61/100) • Q4_K_M (~35 tok/s • 4GB free)

ℹTHE BRUTAL TRUTH

The premier open coding model for local developers. If you have a 24GB GPU, it delivers frontier coding assistance with zero API fees.

No cardLocalAPIOpen weightsHFPermissive

ILLUSTRATIVE PROMPT

Refactor this service into typed modules and generate integration tests.

PREVIEW NOTE

Production-ready typed code implementation with complete unit tests.

1,120

Hugging Face↗

●LOCAL • 90/100

Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct

Alibaba / Qwen

Alibaba Qwen's high-efficiency 14.7B dense instruction-tuned model with 128K context, hitting the sweet spot for 12GB–16GB consumer GPUs.

BASE ARCHITECTURE / Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct

SRuns well (85/100) • Q4_K_M (~71 tok/s • 14GB free)

ℹTHE BRUTAL TRUTH

The best quality-per-GB model on 12GB–16GB consumer hardware. Outstanding balance of speed and coding capability under Apache 2.0.

No cardLocalAPIOpen weightsHFPermissive

ILLUSTRATIVE PROMPT

Build a typed API client with retries and unit tests.

PREVIEW NOTE

Complete TypeScript client with retry logic and unit tests.

940

Hugging Face↗

●LOCAL • 91/100

Gemma 2 27B

Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind's flagship 27.2B open model featuring alternating local/global attention and post-training alignment, punching above its weight class on single-GPU hardware.

BASE ARCHITECTURE / Google Gemma 2 27B (Instruct)

BRuns well (60/100) • Q4_K_M (~39 tok/s • 6GB free)

ℹTHE BRUTAL TRUTH

Google's 27B architecture punches way above its parameter weight. If 8K context is sufficient for your workload, it is an outstanding 24GB driver.

No cardLocalAPIOpen weightsHF

ILLUSTRATIVE PROMPT

Implement a rate-limited API endpoint with structured errors.

PREVIEW NOTE

Robust implementation with structured error handling.

890

Hugging Face↗

●CLOUD • 94/100

Cursor

Anysphere

An AI-first code editor with repository context, agent workflows, and selectable model providers. The dominant AI-native IDE by revenue.

BASE ARCHITECTURE / Multiple selectable models

SInstant Cloud Web Studio (0 GB VRAM • Free tier / $20 mo)

ℹTHE BRUTAL TRUTH

It's a wrapper — you're paying $20/mo for orchestration on top of GPT/Claude. Only worth it if it saves you 1+ hour per week. Otherwise, self-host Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.

ILLUSTRATIVE PROMPT

Refactor this module into smaller typed functions and add tests.

PREVIEW NOTE

A proposed refactor plan with file-level edits and test suggestions.

942

Launch↗

●CLOUD • 90/100

GitHub Copilot

GitHub

The most widely deployed AI coding assistant, embedded across VS Code, JetBrains, and GitHub itself with multi-model routing.

BASE ARCHITECTURE / Multi-model routing

SInstant Cloud Web Studio (0 GB VRAM • Free / $10 mo)

ℹTHE BRUTAL TRUTH

Cheaper than Cursor, but the agentic workflow is still behind. If you're on GitHub Enterprise already it's a no-brainer — otherwise, look at Cursor first.

API

ILLUSTRATIVE PROMPT

Review this pull request for null-safety issues.

PREVIEW NOTE

Illustrative review task; not executed here.

1,102

Launch↗

●LOCAL • 91/100

DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct

DeepSeek

A lightweight Mixture-of-Experts coding model with 16B total parameters and 2.4B active. Supports 338 programming languages and a 128K context window.

BASE ARCHITECTURE / DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct (16B MoE)

SRuns well (85/100) • Q4_K_M (~64 tok/s • 13GB free)

ℹTHE BRUTAL TRUTH

The best sub-16GB open coding model for multi-language repos. Blazing fast at 60 tok/s on an RTX 4070.

No cardLocalAPIOpen weightsHF

ILLUSTRATIVE PROMPT

Build a concurrent WebSocket proxy in Rust with channel reconnection logic and integration tests.

PREVIEW NOTE

A structured Rust module implementing Tokio broadcast channels and graceful client disconnection handling.

765

Hugging Face↗