Bud and NxtGen Launch ‘M for Coding’, India’s Alternative to Claude Code

NxtGen together with Bengaluru-based Bud Ecosystem, the innovator behind a hardware-agnostic generative AI Foundry, announced M for Coding. Offered under NxtGen’s ‘M’ GenAI platform and powered by Bud, the new AI-driven coding assistant positions itself as India’s affordable alternative to Claude Code, delivering frontier-grade performance at a fraction of the cost. By dramatically lowering the financial barrier to advanced coding assistance, M for Coding makes cutting-edge generative AI accessible to a far wider spectrum of developers, startups, and enterprises across the country.

Performance metrics show that M for Coding is highly competitive. In multi-turn software engineering benchmarks, M for Coding matches or outperforms leading models like Claude Opus 4.1, OpenAI Codex. In SWE-bench Verified, it scores 73.8, surpassing Claude Sonnet-4’s 70.4 and approaching Opus 4.1’s 74.5. Against other top models, in SWE-bench Verified, M for Coding achieves a ...