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Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI
Grok 4.1 Fast is the newest xAI model designed to deliver advanced tool-calling capabilities with a massive 2-million-token context window. It excels at complex real-world tasks such as customer support, finance, troubleshooting, and dynamic agent workflows. The model pairs seamlessly with the new Agent Tools API, which enables real-time web search, X search, file retrieval, and secure code execution. This combination gives developers the power to build fully autonomous, production-grade agents that plan, reason, and use tools effectively. Grok 4.1 Fast is trained with long-horizon reinforcement learning, ensuring stable multi-turn accuracy even across extremely long prompts. With its speed, cost-efficiency, and high benchmark scores, it sets a new standard for scalable enterprise-grade AI agents. -
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Amazon Nova 2 Pro
Amazon
Amazon Nova 2 Pro is Amazon’s most advanced reasoning model, designed to handle highly complex, multimodal tasks across text, images, video, and speech with exceptional accuracy. It excels in deep problem-solving scenarios such as agentic coding, multi-document analysis, long-range planning, and advanced math. With benchmark performance equal or superior to leading models like Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5.1, and Gemini Pro, Nova 2 Pro delivers top-tier intelligence across a wide range of enterprise workloads. The model includes built-in web grounding and code execution, ensuring responses remain factual, current, and contextually accurate. Nova 2 Pro can also serve as a “teacher model,” enabling knowledge distillation into smaller, purpose-built variants for specific domains. It is engineered for organizations that require precision, reliability, and frontier-level reasoning in mission-critical AI applications. -
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GPT-5.1 Pro
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Pro is the highest-performance version of the GPT-5.1 model family, designed for research-grade reasoning and advanced analytical workloads. It delivers deeper, more structured thinking, making it ideal for complex problem-solving across coding, science, finance, law, and technical research. Unlike the Instant and Thinking versions, GPT-5.1 Pro is built to maintain accuracy under heavy cognitive load, producing clearer logic and more reliable multi-step reasoning. Pro users also gain access to extended context windows, allowing significantly longer inputs and deeper information processing. While it supports the full range of ChatGPT features, GPT-5.1 Pro is optimized for precision, rigor, and high-stakes tasks. It is available exclusively to ChatGPT Pro and Business customers. -
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Gemini 1.5 Pro
Google
The Gemini 1.5 Pro AI model is a state-of-the-art language model designed to deliver highly accurate, context-aware, and human-like responses across a variety of applications. Built with cutting-edge neural architecture, it excels in natural language understanding, generation, and reasoning tasks. The model is fine-tuned for versatility, supporting tasks like content creation, code generation, data analysis, and complex problem-solving. Its advanced algorithms ensure nuanced comprehension, enabling it to adapt to different domains and conversational styles seamlessly. With a focus on scalability and efficiency, the Gemini 1.5 Pro is optimized for both small-scale implementations and enterprise-level integrations, making it a powerful tool for enhancing productivity and innovation. -
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Codestral Mamba
Mistral AI
As a tribute to Cleopatra, whose glorious destiny ended in tragic snake circumstances, we are proud to release Codestral Mamba, a Mamba2 language model specialized in code generation, available under an Apache 2.0 license. Codestral Mamba is another step in our effort to study and provide new architectures. It is available for free use, modification, and distribution, and we hope it will open new perspectives in architecture research. Mamba models offer the advantage of linear time inference and the theoretical ability to model sequences of infinite length. It allows users to engage with the model extensively with quick responses, irrespective of the input length. This efficiency is especially relevant for code productivity use cases, this is why we trained this model with advanced code and reasoning capabilities, enabling it to perform on par with SOTA transformer-based models.Starting Price: Free -
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Mistral NeMo
Mistral AI
Mistral NeMo, our new best small model. A state-of-the-art 12B model with 128k context length, and released under the Apache 2.0 license. Mistral NeMo is a 12B model built in collaboration with NVIDIA. Mistral NeMo offers a large context window of up to 128k tokens. Its reasoning, world knowledge, and coding accuracy are state-of-the-art in its size category. As it relies on standard architecture, Mistral NeMo is easy to use and a drop-in replacement in any system using Mistral 7B. We have released pre-trained base and instruction-tuned checkpoints under the Apache 2.0 license to promote adoption for researchers and enterprises. Mistral NeMo was trained with quantization awareness, enabling FP8 inference without any performance loss. The model is designed for global, multilingual applications. It is trained on function calling and has a large context window. Compared to Mistral 7B, it is much better at following precise instructions, reasoning, and handling multi-turn conversations.Starting Price: Free -
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Mixtral 8x22B
Mistral AI
Mixtral 8x22B is our latest open model. It sets a new standard for performance and efficiency within the AI community. It is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) model that uses only 39B active parameters out of 141B, offering unparalleled cost efficiency for its size. It is fluent in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. It has strong mathematics and coding capabilities. It is natively capable of function calling; along with the constrained output mode implemented on la Plateforme, this enables application development and tech stack modernization at scale. Its 64K tokens context window allows precise information recall from large documents. We build models that offer unmatched cost efficiency for their respective sizes, delivering the best performance-to-cost ratio within models provided by the community. Mixtral 8x22B is a natural continuation of our open model family. Its sparse activation patterns make it faster than any dense 70B model.Starting Price: Free -
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Tülu 3
Ai2
Tülu 3 is an advanced instruction-following language model developed by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), designed to enhance capabilities in areas such as knowledge, reasoning, mathematics, coding, and safety. Built upon the Llama 3 Base, Tülu 3 employs a comprehensive four-stage post-training process: meticulous prompt curation and synthesis, supervised fine-tuning on a diverse set of prompts and completions, preference tuning using both off- and on-policy data, and a novel reinforcement learning approach to bolster specific skills with verifiable rewards. This open-source model distinguishes itself by providing full transparency, including access to training data, code, and evaluation tools, thereby closing the performance gap between open and proprietary fine-tuning methods. Evaluations indicate that Tülu 3 outperforms other open-weight models of similar size, such as Llama 3.1-Instruct and Qwen2.5-Instruct, across various benchmarks.Starting Price: Free -
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Kimi K2
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art open source large language model series built on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, featuring 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion activated parameters for task-specific efficiency. Trained with the Muon optimizer on over 15.5 trillion tokens and stabilized by MuonClip’s attention-logit clamping, it delivers exceptional performance in frontier knowledge, reasoning, mathematics, coding, and general agentic workflows. Moonshot AI provides two variants, Kimi-K2-Base for research-level fine-tuning and Kimi-K2-Instruct pre-trained for immediate chat and tool-driven interactions, enabling both custom development and drop-in agentic capabilities. Benchmarks show it outperforms leading open source peers and rivals top proprietary models in coding tasks and complex task breakdowns, while its 128 K-token context length, tool-calling API compatibility, and support for industry-standard inference engines.Starting Price: Free -
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Grok Code Fast 1
xAI
Grok Code Fast 1 is a high-speed, economical reasoning model designed specifically for agentic coding workflows. Unlike traditional models that can feel slow in tool-based loops, it delivers near-instant responses, excelling in everyday software development tasks. Built from scratch with a programming-rich corpus and refined on real-world pull requests, it supports languages like TypeScript, Python, Java, Rust, C++, and Go. Developers can use it for everything from zero-to-one project building to precise bug fixes and codebase Q&A. With optimized inference and caching techniques, it achieves impressive responsiveness and a 90%+ cache hit rate when integrated with partners like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Cline. Offered at just $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens, Grok Code Fast 1 strikes a strong balance between speed, performance, and affordability.Starting Price: $0.20 per million input tokens -
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Kimi K2 Thinking
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Thinking is an advanced open source reasoning model developed by Moonshot AI, designed specifically for long-horizon, multi-step workflows where the system interleaves chain-of-thought processes with tool invocation across hundreds of sequential tasks. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with a total of 1 trillion parameters, yet only about 32 billion parameters are activated per inference pass, optimizing efficiency while maintaining vast capacity. It supports a context window of up to 256,000 tokens, enabling the handling of extremely long inputs and reasoning chains without losing coherence. Native INT4 quantization is built in, which reduces inference latency and memory usage without performance degradation. Kimi K2 Thinking is explicitly built for agentic workflows; it can autonomously call external tools, manage sequential logic steps (up to and typically between 200-300 tool calls in a single chain), and maintain consistent reasoning.Starting Price: Free -
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Mistral Large 3
Mistral AI
Mistral Large 3 is a next-generation, open multimodal AI model built with a powerful sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture featuring 41B active parameters out of 675B total. Designed from scratch on NVIDIA H200 GPUs, it delivers frontier-level reasoning, multilingual performance, and advanced image understanding while remaining fully open-weight under the Apache 2.0 license. The model achieves top-tier results on modern instruction benchmarks, positioning it among the strongest permissively licensed foundation models available today. With native support across vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, and major cloud providers, Mistral Large 3 offers exceptional accessibility and performance efficiency. Its design enables enterprise-grade customization, letting teams fine-tune or adapt the model for domain-specific workflows and proprietary applications. Mistral Large 3 represents a major advancement in open AI, offering frontier intelligence without sacrificing transparency or control.Starting Price: Free -
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Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2.5 is a next-generation multimodal AI model designed for advanced reasoning, coding, and visual understanding tasks. It features a native multimodal architecture that supports both text and visual inputs, enabling image and video comprehension alongside natural language processing. Kimi K2.5 delivers open-source state-of-the-art performance in agent workflows, software development, and general intelligence tasks. The model offers ultra-long context support with a 256K token window, making it suitable for large documents and complex conversations. It includes long-thinking capabilities that allow multi-step reasoning and tool invocation for solving challenging problems. Kimi K2.5 is fully compatible with the OpenAI API format, allowing developers to switch seamlessly with minimal changes. With strong performance, flexibility, and developer-focused tooling, Kimi K2.5 is built for production-grade AI applications.Starting Price: Free -
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Composer 2
Cursor
Composer 2 is an advanced AI coding model integrated into Cursor, designed to deliver high-level programming performance at a cost-efficient price. It is trained on long-horizon coding tasks, enabling it to solve complex problems that require multiple steps and actions. The model demonstrates strong improvements across key benchmarks, including Terminal-Bench and SWE-bench Multilingual. With enhanced intelligence and efficiency, it provides faster and more accurate code generation. Composer 2 combines strong performance with affordable pricing, making it accessible for developers and teams.Starting Price: $0.50/M input -
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GPT-J
EleutherAI
GPT-J is a cutting-edge language model created by the research organization EleutherAI. In terms of performance, GPT-J exhibits a level of proficiency comparable to that of OpenAI's renowned GPT-3 model in a range of zero-shot tasks. Notably, GPT-J has demonstrated the ability to surpass GPT-3 in tasks related to generating code. The latest iteration of this language model, known as GPT-J-6B, is built upon a linguistic dataset referred to as The Pile. This dataset, which is publicly available, encompasses a substantial volume of 825 gibibytes of language data, organized into 22 distinct subsets. While GPT-J shares certain capabilities with ChatGPT, it is important to note that GPT-J is not designed to operate as a chatbot; rather, its primary function is to predict text. In a significant development in March 2023, Databricks introduced Dolly, a model that follows instructions and is licensed under Apache.Starting Price: Free -
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Stable LM
Stability AI
Stable LM: Stability AI Language Models. The release of Stable LM builds on our experience in open-sourcing earlier language models with EleutherAI, a nonprofit research hub. These language models include GPT-J, GPT-NeoX, and the Pythia suite, which were trained on The Pile open-source dataset. Many recent open-source language models continue to build on these efforts, including Cerebras-GPT and Dolly-2. Stable LM is trained on a new experimental dataset built on The Pile, but three times larger with 1.5 trillion tokens of content. We will release details on the dataset in due course. The richness of this dataset gives Stable LM surprisingly high performance in conversational and coding tasks, despite its small size of 3 to 7 billion parameters (by comparison, GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters). Stable LM 3B is a compact language model designed to operate on portable digital devices like handhelds and laptops, and we’re excited about its capabilities and portability.Starting Price: Free -
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MPT-7B
MosaicML
Introducing MPT-7B, the latest entry in our MosaicML Foundation Series. MPT-7B is a transformer trained from scratch on 1T tokens of text and code. It is open source, available for commercial use, and matches the quality of LLaMA-7B. MPT-7B was trained on the MosaicML platform in 9.5 days with zero human intervention at a cost of ~$200k. Now you can train, finetune, and deploy your own private MPT models, either starting from one of our checkpoints or training from scratch. For inspiration, we are also releasing three finetuned models in addition to the base MPT-7B: MPT-7B-Instruct, MPT-7B-Chat, and MPT-7B-StoryWriter-65k+, the last of which uses a context length of 65k tokens!Starting Price: Free -
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LongLLaMA
LongLLaMA
This repository contains the research preview of LongLLaMA, a large language model capable of handling long contexts of 256k tokens or even more. LongLLaMA is built upon the foundation of OpenLLaMA and fine-tuned using the Focused Transformer (FoT) method. LongLLaMA code is built upon the foundation of Code Llama. We release a smaller 3B base variant (not instruction tuned) of the LongLLaMA model on a permissive license (Apache 2.0) and inference code supporting longer contexts on hugging face. Our model weights can serve as the drop-in replacement of LLaMA in existing implementations (for short context up to 2048 tokens). Additionally, we provide evaluation results and comparisons against the original OpenLLaMA models.Starting Price: Free -
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Grok
xAI
Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask! Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor! A unique and fundamental advantage of Grok is that it has real-time knowledge of the world via the 𝕏 platform. It will also answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems.Starting Price: Free -
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Llama 3
Meta
We’ve integrated Llama 3 into Meta AI, our intelligent assistant, that expands the ways people can get things done, create and connect with Meta AI. You can see first-hand the performance of Llama 3 by using Meta AI for coding tasks and problem solving. Whether you're developing agents, or other AI-powered applications, Llama 3 in both 8B and 70B will offer the capabilities and flexibility you need to develop your ideas. With the release of Llama 3, we’ve updated the Responsible Use Guide (RUG) to provide the most comprehensive information on responsible development with LLMs. Our system-centric approach includes updates to our trust and safety tools with Llama Guard 2, optimized to support the newly announced taxonomy published by MLCommons expanding its coverage to a more comprehensive set of safety categories, code shield, and Cybersec Eval 2.Starting Price: Free -
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Codestral
Mistral AI
We introduce Codestral, our first-ever code model. Codestral is an open-weight generative AI model explicitly designed for code generation tasks. It helps developers write and interact with code through a shared instruction and completion API endpoint. As it masters code and English, it can be used to design advanced AI applications for software developers. Codestral is trained on a diverse dataset of 80+ programming languages, including the most popular ones, such as Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, and Bash. It also performs well on more specific ones like Swift and Fortran. This broad language base ensures Codestral can assist developers in various coding environments and projects.Starting Price: Free -
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CodeQwen
Alibaba
CodeQwen is the code version of Qwen, the large language model series developed by the Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud. It is a transformer-based decoder-only language model pre-trained on a large amount of data of codes. Strong code generation capabilities and competitive performance across a series of benchmarks. Supporting long context understanding and generation with the context length of 64K tokens. CodeQwen supports 92 coding languages and provides excellent performance in text-to-SQL, bug fixes, etc. You can just write several lines of code with transformers to chat with CodeQwen. Essentially, we build the tokenizer and the model from pre-trained methods, and we use the generate method to perform chatting with the help of the chat template provided by the tokenizer. We apply the ChatML template for chat models following our previous practice. The model completes the code snippets according to the given prompts, without any additional formatting.Starting Price: Free -
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Mistral Large
Mistral AI
Mistral Large is Mistral AI's flagship language model, designed for advanced text generation and complex multilingual reasoning tasks, including text comprehension, transformation, and code generation. It supports English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian, offering a nuanced understanding of grammar and cultural contexts. With a 32,000-token context window, it can accurately recall information from extensive documents. The model's precise instruction-following and native function-calling capabilities facilitate application development and tech stack modernization. Mistral Large is accessible through Mistral's platform, Azure AI Studio, and Azure Machine Learning, and can be self-deployed for sensitive use cases. Benchmark evaluations indicate that Mistral Large achieves strong results, making it the world's second-ranked model generally available through an API, next to GPT-4.Starting Price: Free -
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IBM Granite
IBM
IBM® Granite™ is a family of artificial intelligence (AI) models purpose-built for business, engineered from scratch to help ensure trust and scalability in AI-driven applications. Open source Granite models are available today. We make AI as accessible as possible for as many developers as possible. That’s why we have open-sourced core Granite Code, Time Series, Language, and GeoSpatial models and made them available on Hugging Face under permissive Apache 2.0 license that enables broad, unencumbered commercial usage. All Granite models are trained on carefully curated data, with industry-leading levels of transparency about the data that went into them. We have also open-sourced the tools we use to ensure the data is high quality and up to the standards that enterprise-grade applications demand.Starting Price: Free -
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Granite Code
IBM
We introduce the Granite series of decoder-only code models for code generative tasks (e.g., fixing bugs, explaining code, documenting code), trained with code written in 116 programming languages. A comprehensive evaluation of the Granite Code model family on diverse tasks demonstrates that our models consistently reach state-of-the-art performance among available open source code LLMs. The key advantages of Granite Code models include: All-rounder Code LLM: Granite Code models achieve competitive or state-of-the-art performance on different kinds of code-related tasks, including code generation, explanation, fixing, editing, translation, and more. Demonstrating their ability to solve diverse coding tasks. Trustworthy Enterprise-Grade LLM: All our models are trained on license-permissible data collected following IBM's AI Ethics principles and guided by IBM’s Corporate Legal team for trustworthy enterprise usage.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen2
Alibaba
Qwen2 is the large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud. Qwen2 is a series of large language models developed by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud. It includes both base language models and instruction-tuned models, ranging from 0.5 billion to 72 billion parameters, and features both dense models and a Mixture-of-Experts model. The Qwen2 series is designed to surpass most previous open-weight models, including its predecessor Qwen1.5, and to compete with proprietary models across a broad spectrum of benchmarks in language understanding, generation, multilingual capabilities, coding, mathematics, and reasoning.Starting Price: Free -
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Grok 2
xAI
Grok-2, the latest iteration in AI technology, is a marvel of modern engineering, designed to push the boundaries of what artificial intelligence can achieve. Inspired by the wit and wisdom of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the efficiency of JARVIS from Iron Man, Grok-2 is not just another AI; it's a companion in the truest sense. With an expanded knowledge base that stretches up to the recent past, Grok-2 offers insights with a touch of humor and an outside perspective on humanity, making it uniquely engaging. Its capabilities include answering nearly any question with maximum helpfulness, often providing solutions that are both innovative and outside the conventional box. Grok-2's design emphasizes truthfulness, avoiding the pitfalls of woke culture, and strives to be maximally truthful, making it a reliable source of information and entertainment in an increasingly complex world.Starting Price: Free -
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Falcon 3
Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Falcon 3 is an open-source large language model (LLM) developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) to make advanced AI accessible to a broader audience. Designed for efficiency, it operates seamlessly on lightweight devices, including laptops, without compromising performance. The Falcon 3 ecosystem comprises four scalable models, each tailored to diverse applications, and supports multiple languages while optimizing resource usage. This latest iteration in TII's LLM series achieves state-of-the-art results in reasoning, language understanding, instruction following, code, and mathematics tasks. By combining high performance with resource efficiency, Falcon 3 aims to democratize access to AI, empowering users across various sectors to leverage advanced technology without the need for extensive computational resources.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen2.5-Max
Alibaba
Qwen2.5-Max is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model developed by the Qwen team, pretrained on over 20 trillion tokens and further refined through Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). In evaluations, it outperforms models like DeepSeek V3 in benchmarks such as Arena-Hard, LiveBench, LiveCodeBench, and GPQA-Diamond, while also demonstrating competitive results in other assessments, including MMLU-Pro. Qwen2.5-Max is accessible via API through Alibaba Cloud and can be explored interactively on Qwen Chat.Starting Price: Free -
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QwQ-Max-Preview
Alibaba
QwQ-Max-Preview is an advanced AI model built on the Qwen2.5-Max architecture, designed to excel in deep reasoning, mathematical problem-solving, coding, and agent-related tasks. This preview version offers a sneak peek at its capabilities, which include improved performance in a wide range of general-domain tasks and the ability to handle complex workflows. QwQ-Max-Preview is slated for an official open-source release under the Apache 2.0 license, offering further advancements and refinements in its full version. It also paves the way for a more accessible AI ecosystem, with the upcoming launch of the Qwen Chat app and smaller variants of the model like QwQ-32B, aimed at developers seeking local deployment options.Starting Price: Free
