What’s the best open source AI for coding in 2026?

GLM-5.1—tops SWE-Bench Pro at 58.4%, with 8-hour autonomy. Download weights from Hugging Face.

Can I run these models locally on my machine?

Gemma 4 yes, with 18GB RAM via Ollama. Others need beefy servers or APIs.

Is Llama 4 truly open source?

Not fully—Llama License requires Meta permission over 700M MAU. Gemma's Apache 2.0 is cleaner.

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Comparison chart of Llama 4, Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, and GLM-5.1 open source AI models

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GLM-5.1 leads coding benchmarks, beating paid models. 𝕏
Gemma 4 runs locally on modest hardware. 𝕏
No universal winner—match to your use case. 𝕏

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