QikEasy AI Programmer: Selecting a Good AI Model for Code Generation

Criteria for selecting a good AI Model for code generation:

• Price: There are many free AI Models available, but whether they can consistently produce good results is questionable.  The paid models are usually better than the free ones both in terms of accuracy and availability.  For the paid AI models, the per request cost of each AI Model varies significantly.  For example, the Anthropic Claude models can be more than 10 times as expensive as the cheaper paid models. The next few tips will help you find the best model without breaking your budget.

• Number of Parameters in the model:  The higher “B” number means higher capacity to understand nuance, language complexity, and knowledge.  For programming, we would recommend finding a model that has at least 20+ B parameters.

• Model’s Performance in Coding: 
  • For the models designed for coding, we can often filter them by the keyword “coder”. 
  • There is another better way to find the very best AI models for programming.  OpenRouter regularly updates a leaderboard for programming AI models. You may reference OpenRouter’s page for weekly ranking of the best AI models for programming here:
          https://openrouter.ai/collections/programming