Run Qwen2.5 Coder Locally — Best Free Coding AI
Qwen2.5 Coder from Alibaba rivals GPT-4 on coding tasks. Run it free, locally, on your own hardware.
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What is Qwen2.5 Coder?
Released by Alibaba Cloud, Qwen2.5 Coder is one of the top-ranked open-source coding models in 2024–2025. It supports 92 programming languages and has a 128K context window.
Why It's Special
- 🥇 Outperforms many proprietary models on HumanEval benchmarks
- 🌍 Excellent multilingual code support
- 🆓 Open-source with permissive license
- 💾 Available in 1.5B, 7B, and 32B sizes
Pull Qwen2.5 Coder via Ollama
Make sure Ollama is installed, then download the model:
Best for most PCs (8 GB RAM):
ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:7b
Lightweight version (4 GB RAM):
ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:1.5b
High-end machines (32 GB RAM):
ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:32b
Run and Test the Model
Add to VS Code with Continue
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