Skip to main content

Model setup

Best overall experience​

For the best Autocomplete experience, we recommend using Codestral through the Mistral API. This model offers high-quality completions with an excellent understanding of code context:

config.json
{
  "tabAutocompleteModel": {
    "title": "Codestral",
    "provider": "mistral",
    "model": "codestral-latest",
    "apiKey": "YOUR_API_KEY"
  }
}
Codestral API Key

The API keys for Codestral and the general Mistral APIs are different. If you are using Codestral, you probably want a Codestral API key, but if you are sharing the key as a team or otherwise want to use api.mistral.ai, then make sure to set "apiBase": "https://api.mistral.ai/v1" in your tabAutocompleteModel.

Local, offline / self-hosted experience​

For those preferring local execution or self-hosting,Qwen2.5-Coder 1.5B offers a good balance of performance and quality for most users:

config.json
{
  "tabAutocompleteModel": {
    "title": "Qwen2.5-Coder 1.5B",
    "model": "qwen2.5-coder:1.5b",
    "provider": "ollama"
  }
}

Have more compute? Use qwen2.5-coder:7b for potentially higher-quality suggestions.

note

For LM Studio users, navigate to the "My Models" section, find your desired model, and copy the path (e.g., Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct-GGUF/wen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf). Use this path as the model value in your configuration.

Other experiences​

There are many more models and providers you can use with Autocomplete. Check them out here.