WizardCoder
Microsoft's 2023 Evol-Instruct code model — once SOTA, now dated.
Overview
WizardCoder is Microsoft Research's 2023 Evol-Instruct fine-tune of Code Llama/DeepSeek-Coder bases, self-hosted only with no official API; its last real update was January 2024, and 2026-era models like Qwen3-Coder and DeepSeek-Coder-V2 now beat its HumanEval scores by 10+ points.
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WizardCoder applies Microsoft's Evol-Instruct technique — progressively harder auto-generated coding instructions — to fine-tune Code Llama and DeepSeek-Coder bases. At release it was genuinely competitive: WizardCoder-33B-V1.1 hit 79.9 pass@1 on HumanEval, respectable numbers that held up against much larger proprietary models in 2023-24. The GitHub repo (nlpxucan/WizardLM) hasn't shipped a meaningful update since that January 2024 release. That matters, because 2026's open-weight coding models have moved well past it: Qwen3-Coder and DeepSeek-Coder-V2 both clear 90%+ on HumanEval, and the field has largely shifted to agentic, repo-scale benchmarks like SWE-Bench where WizardCoder was never evaluated. There's no hosted product or API — you're pulling weights from Hugging Face and running your own GPU inference. Worth knowing as a historical reference point in the open-weights lineage; not a model to deploy today.
What people say
January 2024 is the last time the WizardCoder GitHub repo (nlpxucan/WizardLM) shipped anything that counts as a real update. That's the headline for anyone considering it today: this is a two-and-a-half-year-old checkpoint being evaluated against a completely different generation of open models.
The technique behind it — Evol-Instruct, which auto-generates progressively harder coding instructions to fine-tune on — was legitimately clever, and WizardCoder-33B-V1.1 (trained on a DeepSeek-Coder-33B base) scored 79.9 pass@1 on HumanEval and 73.2 on HumanEval+. Those were strong numbers for late 2023 and early 2024, competitive with models several times its size.
They aren't strong numbers now. Qwen3-Coder clears roughly 92% on HumanEval, DeepSeek-Coder-V2 sits around 91.6%, and Mistral's Devstral Small is past 90% — all comfortably ahead of what WizardCoder ever posted, and all of them also compete on harder, repo-scale benchmarks like SWE-Bench that didn't really exist as a standard when WizardCoder shipped.
There's no hosted version, no API, no chat interface — you download weights from Hugging Face (15B, 33B, or 34B variants) and run them yourself, which means GPU budget and some ML tooling knowledge. Fine as a free, self-hostable baseline or a history lesson in how far Evol-Instruct-style fine-tuning could push a mid-size model. Not a serious pick for anyone shopping for a current coding assistant in 2026.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
Notable facts
- WizardCoder's Evol-Instruct technique generates progressively harder coding challenges during training — essentially teaching itself harder problems the same way a student advances through textbooks.
- The 34B version of WizardCoder was the first open-source model to achieve above 70% on HumanEval, a benchmark previously dominated by closed commercial models.
- The WizardLM family (including WizardCoder) was created by a team of 3 researchers at Microsoft, demonstrating that small focused teams can match large lab outputs with smart methodology.
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