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Falcon 3
Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Falcon 3 is an open-source large language model (LLM) developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) to make advanced AI accessible to a broader audience. Designed for efficiency, it operates seamlessly on lightweight devices, including laptops, without compromising performance. The Falcon 3 ecosystem comprises four scalable models, each tailored to diverse applications, and supports multiple languages while optimizing resource usage. This latest iteration in TII's LLM series achieves state-of-the-art results in reasoning, language understanding, instruction following, code, and mathematics tasks. By combining high performance with resource efficiency, Falcon 3 aims to democratize access to AI, empowering users across various sectors to leverage advanced technology without the need for extensive computational resources.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen2.5-Max
Alibaba
Qwen2.5-Max is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model developed by the Qwen team, pretrained on over 20 trillion tokens and further refined through Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). In evaluations, it outperforms models like DeepSeek V3 in benchmarks such as Arena-Hard, LiveBench, LiveCodeBench, and GPQA-Diamond, while also demonstrating competitive results in other assessments, including MMLU-Pro. Qwen2.5-Max is accessible via API through Alibaba Cloud and can be explored interactively on Qwen Chat.Starting Price: Free -
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SmolLM2
Hugging Face
SmolLM2 is a collection of state-of-the-art, compact language models developed for on-device applications. The models in this collection range from 1.7B parameters to smaller 360M and 135M versions, designed to perform efficiently even on less powerful hardware. These models excel in text generation tasks and are optimized for real-time, low-latency applications, providing high-quality results across various use cases, including content creation, coding assistance, and natural language processing. SmolLM2's flexibility makes it a suitable choice for developers looking to integrate powerful AI into mobile devices, edge computing, and other resource-constrained environments.Starting Price: Free -
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QwQ-Max-Preview
Alibaba
QwQ-Max-Preview is an advanced AI model built on the Qwen2.5-Max architecture, designed to excel in deep reasoning, mathematical problem-solving, coding, and agent-related tasks. This preview version offers a sneak peek at its capabilities, which include improved performance in a wide range of general-domain tasks and the ability to handle complex workflows. QwQ-Max-Preview is slated for an official open-source release under the Apache 2.0 license, offering further advancements and refinements in its full version. It also paves the way for a more accessible AI ecosystem, with the upcoming launch of the Qwen Chat app and smaller variants of the model like QwQ-32B, aimed at developers seeking local deployment options.Starting Price: Free -
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Mistral Large 2
Mistral AI
Mistral AI has launched the Mistral Large 2, an advanced AI model designed to excel in code generation, multilingual capabilities, and complex reasoning tasks. The model features a 128k context window, supporting dozens of languages including English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, as well as over 80 programming languages. Mistral Large 2 is tailored for high-throughput single-node inference, making it ideal for large-context applications. Its improved performance on benchmarks like MMLU and its enhanced code generation and reasoning abilities ensure accuracy and efficiency. The model also incorporates better function calling and retrieval, supporting complex business applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Llama 4 Maverick
Meta
Llama 4 Maverick is one of the most advanced multimodal AI models from Meta, featuring 17 billion active parameters and 128 experts. It surpasses its competitors like GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash in a broad range of benchmarks, especially in tasks related to coding, reasoning, and multilingual capabilities. Llama 4 Maverick combines image and text understanding, enabling it to deliver industry-leading results in image-grounding tasks and precise, high-quality output. With its efficient performance at a reduced parameter size, Maverick offers exceptional value, especially in general assistant and chat applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen3
Alibaba
Qwen3, the latest iteration of the Qwen family of large language models, introduces groundbreaking features that enhance performance across coding, math, and general capabilities. With models like the Qwen3-235B-A22B and Qwen3-30B-A3B, Qwen3 achieves impressive results compared to top-tier models, thanks to its hybrid thinking modes that allow users to control the balance between deep reasoning and quick responses. The platform supports 119 languages and dialects, making it an ideal choice for global applications. Its pre-training process, which uses 36 trillion tokens, enables robust performance, and advanced reinforcement learning (RL) techniques continue to refine its capabilities. Available on platforms like Hugging Face and ModelScope, Qwen3 offers a powerful tool for developers and researchers working in diverse fields.Starting Price: Free -
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Mistral Medium 3
Mistral AI
Mistral Medium 3 is a powerful AI model designed to deliver state-of-the-art performance at a fraction of the cost compared to other models. It offers simpler deployment options, allowing for hybrid or on-premises configurations. Mistral Medium 3 excels in professional applications like coding and multimodal understanding, making it ideal for enterprise use. Its low-cost structure makes it highly accessible while maintaining top-tier performance, outperforming many larger models in specific domains.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen3-Coder
Qwen
Qwen3‑Coder is an agentic code model available in multiple sizes, led by the 480B‑parameter Mixture‑of‑Experts variant (35B active) that natively supports 256K‑token contexts (extendable to 1M) and achieves state‑of‑the‑art results comparable to Claude Sonnet 4. Pre‑training on 7.5T tokens (70 % code) and synthetic data cleaned via Qwen2.5‑Coder optimized both coding proficiency and general abilities, while post‑training employs large‑scale, execution‑driven reinforcement learning, scaling test‑case generation for diverse coding challenges, and long‑horizon RL across 20,000 parallel environments to excel on multi‑turn software‑engineering benchmarks like SWE‑Bench Verified without test‑time scaling. Alongside the model, the open source Qwen Code CLI (forked from Gemini Code) unleashes Qwen3‑Coder in agentic workflows with customized prompts, function calling protocols, and seamless integration with Node.js, OpenAI SDKs, and environment variables.Starting Price: Free -
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GPT-5 mini
OpenAI
GPT-5 mini is a streamlined, faster, and more affordable variant of OpenAI’s GPT-5, optimized for well-defined tasks and precise prompts. It supports text and image inputs and delivers high-quality text outputs with a 400,000-token context window and up to 128,000 output tokens. This model excels at rapid response times, making it suitable for applications requiring fast, accurate language understanding without the full overhead of GPT-5. Pricing is cost-effective, with input tokens at $0.25 per million and output tokens at $2 per million, providing savings over the flagship model. GPT-5 mini supports advanced features like streaming, function calling, structured outputs, and fine-tuning, but does not support audio input or image generation. It integrates well with various API endpoints including chat completions, responses, and embeddings, making it versatile for many AI-powered tasks.Starting Price: $0.25 per 1M tokens -
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GLM-4.6
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.6 advances upon its predecessor with stronger reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities: it demonstrates clear improvements in inferential performance, supports tool use during inference, and more effectively integrates into agent frameworks. In benchmark tests spanning reasoning, coding, and agents, GLM-4.6 outperforms GLM-4.5 and shows competitive strength against models such as DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp and Claude Sonnet 4, though it still trails Claude Sonnet 4.5 in pure coding performance. In real-world tests using an extended “CC-Bench” suite across front-end development, tool building, data analysis, and algorithmic tasks, GLM-4.6 beats GLM-4.5 and approaches parity with Claude Sonnet 4, winning ~48.6% of head-to-head comparisons, while also achieving ~15% better token efficiency. GLM-4.6 is available via the Z.ai API, and developers can integrate it as an LLM backend or agent core using the platform’s API.Starting Price: Free -
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Devstral 2
Mistral AI
Devstral 2 is a next-generation, open source agentic AI model tailored for software engineering: it doesn’t just suggest code snippets, it understands and acts across entire codebases, enabling multi-file edits, bug fixes, refactoring, dependency resolution, and context-aware code generation. The Devstral 2 family includes a large 123-billion-parameter model as well as a smaller 24-billion-parameter variant (“Devstral Small 2”), giving teams flexibility; the larger model excels in heavy-duty coding tasks requiring deep context, while the smaller one can run on more modest hardware. With a vast context window of up to 256 K tokens, Devstral 2 can reason across extensive repositories, track project history, and maintain a consistent understanding of lengthy files, an advantage for complex, real-world projects. The CLI tracks project metadata, Git statuses, and directory structure to give the model context, making “vibe-coding” more powerful.Starting Price: Free -
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Devstral Small 2
Mistral AI
Devstral Small 2 is the compact, 24 billion-parameter variant of the new coding-focused model family from Mistral AI, released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license to enable both local deployment and API use. Alongside its larger sibling (Devstral 2), this model brings “agentic coding” capabilities to environments with modest compute: it supports a large 256K-token context window, enabling it to understand and make changes across entire codebases. On the standard code-generation benchmark (SWE-Bench Verified), Devstral Small 2 scores around 68.0%, placing it among open-weight models many times its size. Because of its reduced size and efficient design, Devstral Small 2 can run on a single GPU or even CPU-only setups, making it practical for developers, small teams, or hobbyists without access to data-center hardware. Despite its compact footprint, Devstral Small 2 retains key capabilities of larger models; it can reason across multiple files and track dependencies.Starting Price: Free -
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DeepCoder
Agentica Project
DeepCoder is a fully open source code-reasoning and generation model released by Agentica Project in collaboration with Together AI. It is fine-tuned from DeepSeek-R1-Distilled-Qwen-14B using distributed reinforcement learning, achieving a 60.6% accuracy on LiveCodeBench (representing an 8% improvement over the base), a performance level that matches that of proprietary models such as o3-mini (2025-01-031 Low) and o1 while using only 14 billion parameters. It was trained over 2.5 weeks on 32 H100 GPUs with a curated dataset of roughly 24,000 coding problems drawn from verified sources (including TACO-Verified, PrimeIntellect SYNTHETIC-1, and LiveCodeBench submissions), each problem requiring a verifiable solution and at least five unit tests to ensure reliability for RL training. To handle long-range context, DeepCoder employs techniques such as iterative context lengthening and overlong filtering.Starting Price: Free -
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DeepSWE
Agentica Project
DeepSWE is a fully open source, state-of-the-art coding agent built on top of the Qwen3-32B foundation model and trained exclusively via reinforcement learning (RL), without supervised finetuning or distillation from proprietary models. It is developed using rLLM, Agentica’s open source RL framework for language agents. DeepSWE operates as an agent; it interacts with a simulated development environment (via the R2E-Gym environment) using a suite of tools (file editor, search, shell-execution, submit/finish), enabling it to navigate codebases, edit multiple files, compile/run tests, and iteratively produce patches or complete engineering tasks. DeepSWE exhibits emergent behaviors beyond simple code generation; when presented with bugs or feature requests, the agent reasons about edge cases, seeks existing tests in the repository, proposes patches, writes extra tests for regressions, and dynamically adjusts its “thinking” effort.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.6V
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.6V is a state-of-the-art open source multimodal vision-language model from the Z.ai (GLM-V) family designed for reasoning, perception, and action. It ships in two variants: a full-scale version (106B parameters) for cloud or high-performance clusters, and a lightweight “Flash” variant (9B) optimized for local deployment or low-latency use. GLM-4.6V supports a native context window of up to 128K tokens during training, enabling it to process very long documents or multimodal inputs. Crucially, it integrates native Function Calling, meaning the model can take images, screenshots, documents, or other visual media as input directly (without manual text conversion), reason about them, and trigger tool calls, bridging “visual perception” with “executable action.” This enables a wide spectrum of capabilities; interleaved image-and-text content generation (for example, combining document understanding with text summarization or generation of image-annotated responses).Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.1V
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.1V is a vision-language model, providing a powerful, compact multimodal model designed for reasoning and perception across images, text, and documents. The 9-billion-parameter variant (GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking) is built on the GLM-4-9B foundation and enhanced through a specialized training paradigm using Reinforcement Learning with Curriculum Sampling (RLCS). It supports a 64k-token context window and accepts high-resolution inputs (up to 4K images, any aspect ratio), enabling it to handle complex tasks such as optical character recognition, image captioning, chart and document parsing, video and scene understanding, GUI-agent workflows (e.g., interpreting screenshots, recognizing UI elements), and general vision-language reasoning. In benchmark evaluations at the 10 B-parameter scale, GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking achieved top performance on 23 of 28 tasks.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.5V-Flash
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.5V-Flash is an open source vision-language model, designed to bring strong multimodal capabilities into a lightweight, deployable package. It supports image, video, document, and GUI inputs, enabling tasks such as scene understanding, chart and document parsing, screen reading, and multi-image analysis. Compared to larger models in the series, GLM-4.5V-Flash offers a compact footprint while retaining core VLM capabilities like visual reasoning, video understanding, GUI task handling, and complex document parsing. It can serve in “GUI agent” workflows, meaning it can interpret screenshots or desktop captures, recognize icons or UI elements, and assist with automated desktop or web-based tasks. Although it forgoes some of the largest-model performance gains, GLM-4.5V-Flash remains versatile for real-world multimodal tasks where efficiency, lower resource usage, and broad modality support are prioritized.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.5V
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.5V builds on the GLM-4.5-Air foundation, using a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 106 billion total parameters and 12 billion activation parameters. It achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source VLMs of similar scale across 42 public benchmarks, excelling in image, video, document, and GUI-based tasks. It supports a broad range of multimodal capabilities, including image reasoning (scene understanding, spatial recognition, multi-image analysis), video understanding (segmentation, event recognition), complex chart and long-document parsing, GUI-agent workflows (screen reading, icon recognition, desktop automation), and precise visual grounding (e.g., locating objects and returning bounding boxes). GLM-4.5V also introduces a “Thinking Mode” switch, allowing users to choose between fast responses or deeper reasoning when needed.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.7
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.7 is an advanced large language model designed to significantly elevate coding, reasoning, and agentic task performance. It delivers major improvements over GLM-4.6 in multilingual coding, terminal-based tasks, and real-world software engineering benchmarks such as SWE-bench and Terminal Bench. GLM-4.7 supports “thinking before acting,” enabling more stable, accurate, and controllable behavior in complex coding and agent workflows. The model also introduces strong gains in UI and frontend generation, producing cleaner webpages, better layouts, and more polished slides. Enhanced tool-using capabilities allow GLM-4.7 to perform more effectively in web browsing, automation, and agent benchmarks. Its reasoning and mathematical performance has improved substantially, showing strong results on advanced evaluation suites. GLM-4.7 is available via Z.ai, API platforms, coding agents, and local deployment for flexible adoption.Starting Price: Free -
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MiniMax-M2.1
MiniMax
MiniMax-M2.1 is an open-source, agentic large language model designed for advanced coding, tool use, and long-horizon planning. It was released to the community to make high-performance AI agents more transparent, controllable, and accessible. The model is optimized for robustness in software engineering, instruction following, and complex multi-step workflows. MiniMax-M2.1 supports multilingual development and performs strongly across real-world coding scenarios. It is suitable for building autonomous applications that require reasoning, planning, and execution. The model weights are fully open, enabling local deployment and customization. MiniMax-M2.1 represents a major step toward democratizing top-tier agent capabilities.Starting Price: Free -
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Composer 1
Cursor
Composer is Cursor’s custom-built agentic AI model optimized specifically for software engineering tasks and designed to power fast, interactive coding assistance directly within the Cursor IDE, a VS Code-derived editor enhanced with intelligent automation. It is a mixture-of-experts model trained with reinforcement learning (RL) on real-world coding problems across large codebases, so it can produce high-speed, context-aware responses, from code edits and planning to answers that understand project structure, tools, and conventions, with generation speeds roughly four times faster than similar models in benchmarks. Composer is specialized for development workflows, leveraging long-context understanding, semantic search, and limited tool access (like file editing and terminal commands) so it can solve complex engineering requests with efficient and practical outputs.Starting Price: $20 per month -
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Qwen3-Coder-Next
Alibaba
Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight language model specifically designed for coding agents and local development that delivers advanced coding reasoning, complex tool usage, and robust performance on long-horizon programming tasks with high efficiency, using a mixture-of-experts architecture that balances powerful capabilities with resource-friendly operation. It provides enhanced agentic coding abilities that help software developers, AI system builders, and automated coding workflows generate, debug, and reason about code with deep contextual understanding while recovering from execution errors, making it well-suited for autonomous coding agents and development-oriented applications. By achieving strong performance comparable to much larger parameter models while requiring fewer active parameters, Qwen3-Coder-Next enables cost-effective deployment for dynamic and complex programming workloads in research and production environments.Starting Price: Free -
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MiniMax M2.5
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.5 is a frontier AI model engineered for real-world productivity across coding, agentic workflows, search, and office tasks. Extensively trained with reinforcement learning in hundreds of thousands of real-world environments, it achieves state-of-the-art performance in benchmarks such as SWE-Bench Verified and BrowseComp. The model demonstrates strong architectural thinking, decomposing complex problems before generating code across more than ten programming languages. M2.5 operates at high throughput speeds of up to 100 tokens per second, enabling faster completion of multi-step tasks. It is optimized for efficient reasoning, reducing token usage and execution time compared to previous versions. With dramatically lower pricing than competing frontier models, it delivers powerful performance at minimal cost. Integrated into MiniMax Agent, M2.5 supports professional-grade office workflows, financial modeling, and autonomous task execution.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen3.5
Alibaba
Qwen3.5 is a next-generation open-weight multimodal large language model designed to power native vision-language agents. The flagship release, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, combines a hybrid linear attention architecture with sparse mixture-of-experts, activating only 17 billion parameters per forward pass out of 397 billion total to maximize efficiency. It delivers strong benchmark performance across reasoning, coding, multilingual understanding, visual reasoning, and agent-based tasks. The model expands language support from 119 to 201 languages and dialects while introducing a 1M-token context window in its hosted version, Qwen3.5-Plus. Built for multimodal tasks, it processes text, images, and video with advanced spatial reasoning and tool integration. Qwen3.5 also incorporates scalable reinforcement learning environments to improve general agent capabilities. Designed for developers and enterprises, it enables efficient, tool-augmented, multimodal AI workflows.Starting Price: Free -
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Leanstral
Mistral AI
Leanstral is an open-source code agent developed by Mistral AI specifically designed to work with the Lean 4 proof assistant. The model focuses on generating code while also formally verifying its correctness against strict mathematical or software specifications. Unlike traditional coding assistants, Leanstral integrates directly with formal proof systems to ensure that generated code satisfies defined logical requirements. Its architecture is optimized for proof engineering tasks and operates efficiently with sparse model parameters. Leanstral is released under the Apache 2.0 license, making it freely accessible for developers, researchers, and organizations to use and customize. The model is designed to operate within real-world formal repositories rather than isolated problem environments. By combining code generation with formal verification, Leanstral aims to reduce the need for manual human review in complex software and mathematical development.Starting Price: Free -
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MiniMax M2.7
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.7 is an advanced AI model designed to enhance real-world productivity across coding, search, and office workflows. It is trained with reinforcement learning across numerous real-world environments, enabling it to handle complex, multi-step tasks effectively. The model excels in problem-solving by breaking down challenges before generating solutions across multiple programming languages. It delivers high-speed performance with rapid token generation, allowing tasks to be completed efficiently. With optimized reasoning and cost-effective pricing, it provides powerful capabilities while minimizing resource usage. It also achieves strong performance in software engineering benchmarks, reducing incident response time and improving development efficiency. Additionally, it supports advanced agentic workflows and professional-grade office tasks, making it highly versatile for modern work environments.Starting Price: Free -
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StarCoder
BigCode
StarCoder and StarCoderBase are Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs) trained on permissively licensed data from GitHub, including from 80+ programming languages, Git commits, GitHub issues, and Jupyter notebooks. Similar to LLaMA, we trained a ~15B parameter model for 1 trillion tokens. We fine-tuned StarCoderBase model for 35B Python tokens, resulting in a new model that we call StarCoder. We found that StarCoderBase outperforms existing open Code LLMs on popular programming benchmarks and matches or surpasses closed models such as code-cushman-001 from OpenAI (the original Codex model that powered early versions of GitHub Copilot). With a context length of over 8,000 tokens, the StarCoder models can process more input than any other open LLM, enabling a wide range of interesting applications. For example, by prompting the StarCoder models with a series of dialogues, we enabled them to act as a technical assistant.Starting Price: Free -
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Llama 2
Meta
The next generation of our open source large language model. This release includes model weights and starting code for pretrained and fine-tuned Llama language models — ranging from 7B to 70B parameters. Llama 2 pretrained models are trained on 2 trillion tokens, and have double the context length than Llama 1. Its fine-tuned models have been trained on over 1 million human annotations. Llama 2 outperforms other open source language models on many external benchmarks, including reasoning, coding, proficiency, and knowledge tests. Llama 2 was pretrained on publicly available online data sources. The fine-tuned model, Llama-2-chat, leverages publicly available instruction datasets and over 1 million human annotations. We have a broad range of supporters around the world who believe in our open approach to today’s AI — companies that have given early feedback and are excited to build with Llama 2.Starting Price: Free -
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Code Llama
Meta
Code Llama is a large language model (LLM) that can use text prompts to generate code. Code Llama is state-of-the-art for publicly available LLMs on code tasks, and has the potential to make workflows faster and more efficient for current developers and lower the barrier to entry for people who are learning to code. Code Llama has the potential to be used as a productivity and educational tool to help programmers write more robust, well-documented software. Code Llama is a state-of-the-art LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts. Code Llama is free for research and commercial use. Code Llama is built on top of Llama 2 and is available in three models: Code Llama, the foundational code model; Codel Llama - Python specialized for Python; and Code Llama - Instruct, which is fine-tuned for understanding natural language instructions.Starting Price: Free
