--- title: "GitHub Copilot Alternatives: Best Open Source LLMs for Coding" url: https://daily.dev/posts/github-copilot-alternatives-best-open-source-llms-for-coding-cwrsmatav source_url: https://itsfoss.com/coding-llms-copilot-alternatives/ type: article source: "It's Foss" published: 2024-07-22T04:39:43.312Z updated: 2024-08-23T14:23:31.241Z tags: ["ai", "machine-learning", "open-source", "github"] reading_time: 7 upvotes: 256 comments: 8 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GitHub Copilot Alternatives: Best Open Source LLMs for Coding **[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · 7 min read · 256 upvotes · 8 comments ## Summary Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly popular in assisting coding tasks. This post provides an overview of various open-source alternatives to GitHub Copilot, such as WizardCoder, Phind CodeLlama, Mistral AI's models, CodeBooga, Meta AI's Code Llama, CodeGeeX, Tabby, StarCoder, Deepseek Coder, and DolphinMixtral. These LLMs offer different features, sizes, and capabilities suitable for various programming needs and can be integrated into popular IDEs as coding assistants. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@vamshinenu** · 10 upvotes > You are comparing the models, but not all the features, that copilot has, if copilot has a way to choose the model. then this is a great post, but those are just models. The biggest thing for me is the real time suggestion. I dont want to ask the model for code or write everything all by myself, instead, I want inline, completions, for things I already know and can type, but I'm just lazy. This, way, it allows me to become a better **promgrammer**, so I'm prompting to finish the line (which is easy most of the time for the model), unlike programmer, he types, everything, which is good, but... **@sohanemon** · 5 upvotes > these required additional setup to work in our code. > > You may compare copilot with codeium, tabnine ete. **@avendor** · 2 upvotes > A few issues with this post. As others have said Co-Pilot is more than the models. Second, there doesn't seem to be any indication as to why one is better than the others - its just a list of LLMs that are more code focused. Lastly, articles like this age poorly because the landscape changes frequently and a model that works for one person may be useless for another. Not everyone can run an LLM locally and the various sizes have different results. > > For anyone else stumbling upon this continue.dev is the closest I've seen to replicating some Co-Pilot features in VS Code and Jetbrains. **@manish1614** · 1 upvotes > These are not github-copilot alternatives. They are just LLMs which are capable of doing the same work but we can't just simply integrate them with our IDE and hit tab to accept suggestions like we do for copilot use case. **@walidboulanouar** · 0 upvotes > great ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/github-copilot-alternatives-best-open-source-llms-for-coding-cwrsmatav)