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Magnitude: A coding agent that runs on open models

Magnitude launched a coding agent that runs entirely on open models, costing 60% less than Claude Code with no drop in performance. The agent uses smart model routing to achieve 50–90% cost savings by assigning subtasks to lower-cost specialists. Magnitude offers pass-through API pricing with no markup and $5 free credits.

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Magnitude: A coding agent that runs on open models
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Magnitude is a coding agent that runs entirely on open models. It costs 60% less than Claude Code with no drop in performance.

Pass-through API pricing with no markup. $5 free credits.

Smart model routing #

"I need to explore the codebase, plan the implementation, then implement and review."

"Explore existing middleware patterns"

"Design auth strategy"

"Add JWT middleware + routes"

"Review the changes"

"Explore existing middleware patterns"

"Design auth strategy"

"Add JWT middleware + routes"

"Review the changes"

A strong leader model plans and coordinates the work, routing subtasks to lower-cost specialists for 50–90% cost savings without sacrificing performance.

Coding agent efficiency #

Our internal benchmark measures the cost efficiency of coding agents.

Methodology

It's built around two projects: Rain, a bespoke DSL written in Zig, and pgx, a real Postgres driver written in Go.

  • • Tasks cover features, bug fixes, and refactors in each project, meant to reflect a diversity of real world engineering work rather than intentionally tricky puzzles.

  • • There's 20 tasks, each run 5 times per agent for a total of 100 trials, measuring the score against total cost by token usage to determine performance per dollar.

We'll build what your team needs #

Tell us your requirements and we'll deliver a tailored setup.

Self-hosted open models

We'll help you run open models on whichever infrastructure you prefer.

Custom model configurations

Tailored model setups for your team's workflow and requirements.

Team controls

Shared billing, spend limits, and admin tools for your organization.

Speak with our founder

Get started in under a minute #

1 Run to download - 2 Run which will ask for an API key - 3 Sign upto get your free API key

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