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Best Open Source Coding Models for Agents

Open models pair well with open-source agents when you need cost control, portability, or local deployment options.

#ModelSWE-benchContextCostOpen
1GLM-5.2
81.41MPendingYes
2Kimi K2.6
80.2256K$0.6/$2.5Yes
3DeepSeek V4 Pro
79.11M$0.44/$0.87Yes
4DeepSeek V4 Flash
791M$0.14/$0.28Yes
5DeepSeek V3.2
70128K$0.25/$0.38Yes
6Mistral Large 3
68128K$2/$6Yes
7Qwen 3.6
65128K$0.3/$0.6Yes
8Llama 4 Maverick
621M$0.8/$2.2Yes
How to read this: Agent pages score the wrapper and workflow. Stack pages score agent plus model combinations.

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