Qwen2.5-Coder 1.5B, 3B win completions

Qwen2.5-Coder is the right default answer here: small enough to run locally, specialized enough to feel like an autocomplete model instead of a general chat model.

• –Qwen’s blog says the coder family focuses on code generation, code completion, and code repair, with 1.5B and 7B sizes in the initial release
• –The Hugging Face model card shows the family spans 0.5B, 1.5B, 3B, 7B, 14B, and 32B, which gives users a real size ladder for different hardware budgets
• –The Reddit reply recommending `qwen2.5-coder:1.5b - 3b` matches the actual use case better than jumping to bigger 7B+ models
• –For pure inline completion, smaller dense coder models usually beat general-purpose models that are better at chat but slower and heavier
• –If you care about local privacy and low latency, this is the kind of model that makes an editor-integrated setup practical