There are SO MANY great models that you can run in coding agents for free or virtually for free now.
- Ox Alpha,
@Zai_org's new GLM Flash model, free for a little longer:
- Inkling by
@thinkymachines is free on OpenRouter:
- Qwen-3.8-27B can be run on any decent sized hardware at home:
- deepseek-v4-flash by
@deepseek_ai is a great model that is very cheap, we provide it free on the OpenHands Cloud:
If you're not trying these you should be!