Open or open-weight models used for code completion, coding assistants, and software agents.
Hugging Face downloads among selected code model alternatives.
Ranked alternatives
Popularity-ranked entries linked back to graph nodes and deterministic sources.
| Rank | Component | Kind | Openness | Popularity metric | Tasks | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instructmodel:qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct | model | open weights | 2,085,546Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | coding, agentic-coding, code-completion | source |
| 2 | Phi-3-mini-4k-instructmodel:phi-3-mini-4k-instruct | model | open weights | 610,575Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | chat | source |
| 3 | CodeGen 350M Monomodel:codegen-350m-mono | model | open weights | 137,804Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | coding | source |
| 4 | StarCoder2-3Bmodel:starcoder2-3b | model | open weights | 123,303Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | coding, code-completion | source |
| 5 | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B Instructmodel:deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruct | model | open weights | 120,203Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | coding | source |
| 6 | CodeLlama 7B Instructmodel:codellama-7b-instruct | model | open weights | 28,105Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | coding | source |
| 7 | Granite 8B Code Instructmodel:granite-8b-code-instruct | model | open weights | 7,939Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | coding | source |
| 8 | CodeGemma 7B ITmodel:codegemma-7b-it | model | open weights | 6,784Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | coding | source |
| 9 | SantaCodermodel:santacoder | model | open weights | 4,201Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | coding | source |
| 10 | Magicoder-S-DS-6.7Bmodel:magicoder-s-ds-6.7b | model | open weights | 303Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | coding | source |