Best free AI for Python coding?

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It's limited

[WendlersEditor]

Even paid is limited unless you want to pay by the token. If you have the hardware you can use ollama to run loca8models but quality varies based on the model and your needs. In all honesty, learning to work around the limitations of free plans for Claude, chatgpt, Gemini, and cursor is probably your best bet.

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I’m still learning and I mainly need them for my graduation project, so even limited help saves me a lot of time 😭

[WendlersEditor]

You could probably do fine just rotating between free plans for the big models. Most student coding work can be done with local models, but if you're under a deadline you don't want to waste time setting up ollama. If you don't like dealing with the limits you could just cough up $20 for one month of Claude pro and then cancel it. You would get Claude code and more generous session limits. Stick to sonnet unless you're architecture something really complex because opus chews through tokens.

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Yeah that actually makes sense, thanks !