AI Model
Hosted coding models and foundation model offerings
AI models are the underlying systems that power coding assistants, chatbots, and other AI tools. This category covers both proprietary hosted models and open-source options you can run yourself. Model choice affects code quality, speed, cost, and privacy.
Hosted models (e.g., GPT, Claude, Gemini) are convenient and often more capable out of the box, but you send code to external APIs. Local and open-source models give you full control over data and cost, at the expense of setup complexity and sometimes lower quality. Hybrid setups—using local models for sensitive code and cloud models for heavy lifting—are common.
Our beginners guide to AI models introduces the landscape. For tools that let you choose models, see Continue, Cline, or OpenCode.
