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Poolside

Coding

Open-weight agentic coding models and agent

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What is Poolside?

Poolside builds foundation models for software work, including the open-weight Laguna coding models available on Hugging Face. Its terminal agent lets developers plan changes, run tasks and work on projects using these models. The smaller Laguna model is designed to run on-device.

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Coding
Website
https://poolside.ai/
Listing updated
Nov 13, 2026

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What is Poolside?

Poolside builds foundation models for software work, including the open-weight Laguna coding models available on Hugging Face. Its terminal agent lets developers plan changes, run tasks and work on projects using these models. The smaller Laguna model is designed to run on-device.

What are alternatives to Poolside?

Coding alternatives to Poolside include GitHub Copilot, Together AI, Baseten, Straion, Cursor and Pinecone.

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