Qwen2.5-Coder 7B
The people's code model — 1.7M downloads of Apache-2.0 7B coding excellence.
About
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct (September 2024) is arguably the most impactful open code model ever released: 1.68M Hugging Face downloads, Apache 2.0, 128K context, and coding quality that embarrassed models 10x its size at release. It became the default local coding model for a generation of developers — the backbone of countless Ollama/vLLM coding setups.
Apache 2.0 licensed — commercial use allowed. Still highly relevant in 2026 for resource-constrained coding assistance, though the Qwen3-Coder family now leads on agentic tasks. If you need one small Apache-2.0 code model that just works, this remains a top answer. The 32B sibling is already in the catalog (qwen2-5-coder-32b).
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-claimed at release (2024): leading 7B HumanEval/MBPP scores — treat as provider-claimed. Independent: massive community validation; widely benchmarked by third parties with strong results.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier). The defining open code model of its era: 1.68M downloads (peer-normalized near the top), Apache 2.0, and third-party-validated quality that held up for two years. Docked two points: (1) the Qwen3-Coder family now leads on agentic coding — this is the efficiency pick, not the capability pick; (2) the 2024 release means the ecosystem has moved to newer architectures.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 9.1/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 4.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.4/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 9.0/10
- · HF downloads 1,683,947 (peer-normalized)
- · released 754 days ago
- · manual review: defining open code model of its era; third-party validated quality; Qwen3-Coder leads on agentic now; license: Apache-2.0