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Qwen3-Coder-Next
The best practical local coding model — an Apache 2.0, mixture-of-experts model small enough to self-host on a single high-end machine.
Qwen3-Coder-Next is built for self-hosted coding agents — an 80B-total, 3B-active mixture-of-experts model under an Apache 2.0 license, small enough to run on a single well-equipped workstation instead of a data-center cluster.
Why it stands out
- Apache 2.0 license, with no restrictions on commercial use, fine-tuning, or redistribution.
- 80B total / 3B active parameters — the active-parameter count is what determines inference cost and hardware needs, and it’s genuinely runnable locally.
- Cheapest hosted pricing on this list for teams that don’t want to self-host but still want open-weight economics.
Good for
Developers and teams that want a coding model they fully control — running locally, air-gapped, or fine-tuned on private code, without depending on a hosted API.