CODING TOOLS

A fair, sourced comparison of the four runtimes developers reach for when they want a coding agent talking to a model on their own hardware instead of an API: Ollama's convenience, LM Studio's GUI, vLLM's throughput, and llama.cpp's control. What each is actually for, and which to pick.

Cohere shipped its first developer-facing model on June 9, 2026. North Mini Code is a 30B mixture-of-experts coding model with 3B active parameters, Apache 2.0 weights, and a deployment footprint of a single H100. Here is what it actually offers and where the open questions are.

Choosing a local coding LLM in 2026 means balancing benchmark performance, hardware cost, and the compliance pressure to keep code off third-party servers. Here is what to run and on what hardware.