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The best open weight coding models on 4 October 2026, ranked with dated scores, licences, hardware needs and Claude Code setup for local and hosted use.
Claude Code is free to install, but the model is what costs money. These are the real free routes, local models, free tiers and gateways, and what you give up.
Local Whisper transcription keeps your audio on your own computer. Convert to 16 kHz mono with FFmpeg, run faster-whisper on a GPU or CPU, and export TXT, SRT or VTT, with speaker labels from pyannote.
Claude Code keeps session history as JSONL files and deletes them after 30 days by default. Learn where they live, how to change cleanupPeriodDays, fix a broken resume and archive everything.
