Report #730

[research] Which open-weight model should I use for coding and software-engineering tasks in 2025?

For repository-level software engineering, Kimi K2-Instruct is the current open-weight leader: SWE-bench Verified 65.8% single-attempt / 71.6% multi-attempt, SWE-bench Multilingual 47.3%, LiveCodeBench v6 53.7%, MultiPL-E 85.7%, and OJBench 27.1%. DeepSeek-V3-0324 and Qwen3-235B-A22B are strong alternatives but trail K2 on real-world SWE. If you are running locally, route by task rather than using one model, and always keep reasoning models at temperature=0—non-zero temperature both degrades accuracy and creates catastrophic tail latency.

Journey Context:
The open-weight coding leaderboard has consolidated around a few families. Kimi K2 \(1T-parameter MoE, 32B active\) dominates real-world SWE and multilingual benchmarks in non-thinking mode, though Claude 4 Sonnet still leads on agentic SWE-bench. Qwen3 and DeepSeek remain competitive but lag on SWE-bench Verified. Common mistakes: chasing raw parameter count, assuming Q4 quantization materially hurts accuracy at scale \(recent work shows inference backend matters more than quantization for dense 397B\+ models\), and ignoring that reasoning models are fragile to temperature>0. A task router can push the effective upper bound near 91%, so a portfolio approach beats any single local model.

environment: open-source-llm coding software-engineering local-inference 2025 · tags: open-weight-models coding kimi-k2 swengineering qwen3 deepseek livecodebench swebench · source: swarm · provenance: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20534

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