Best Foundation Models for Runpod
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This a list of Foundation Models that integrate with Runpod. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Runpod. View the products that work with Runpod in the table below.
What are Foundation Models for Runpod?
Foundation models are large-scale artificial intelligence models trained on vast and diverse datasets that serve as the underlying technology for a wide range of AI applications. These models learn general-purpose capabilities such as language understanding, reasoning, image recognition, code generation, speech processing, and multimodal comprehension, allowing them to be adapted or fine-tuned for specific tasks across industries. Foundation models power applications including chatbots, AI agents, search, content generation, software development, scientific research, and business automation. Many are available through cloud APIs, open-source distributions, and enterprise AI platforms, supporting custom model development, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and domain-specific optimization. By providing reusable, general-purpose intelligence, foundation models enable organizations to accelerate AI development, reduce implementation costs, and build sophisticated AI-powered applications. Compare and read user reviews of the best Foundation Models for Runpod currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Mistral AI
Mistral AI
Mistral AI is a pioneering artificial intelligence startup specializing in open-source generative AI. The company offers a range of customizable, enterprise-grade AI solutions deployable across various platforms, including on-premises, cloud, edge, and devices. Flagship products include "Le Chat," a multilingual AI assistant designed to enhance productivity in both personal and professional contexts, and "La Plateforme," a developer platform that enables the creation and deployment of AI-powered applications. Committed to transparency and innovation, Mistral AI positions itself as a leading independent AI lab, contributing significantly to open-source AI and policy development.Starting Price: Free -
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DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1 is an advanced open-source reasoning model developed by DeepSeek, designed to rival OpenAI's Model o1. Accessible via web, app, and API, it excels in complex tasks such as mathematics and coding, demonstrating superior performance on benchmarks like the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) and MATH. DeepSeek-R1 employs a mixture of experts (MoE) architecture with 671 billion total parameters, activating 37 billion parameters per token, enabling efficient and accurate reasoning capabilities. This model is part of DeepSeek's commitment to advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI) through open-source innovation.Starting Price: Free -
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Mistral 7B
Mistral AI
Mistral 7B is a 7.3-billion-parameter language model that outperforms larger models like Llama 2 13B across various benchmarks. It employs Grouped-Query Attention (GQA) for faster inference and Sliding Window Attention (SWA) to efficiently handle longer sequences. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, Mistral 7B is accessible for deployment across diverse platforms, including local environments and major cloud services. Additionally, a fine-tuned version, Mistral 7B Instruct, demonstrates enhanced performance in instruction-following tasks, surpassing models like Llama 2 13B Chat.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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Llama 3.1
Meta
The open source AI model you can fine-tune, distill and deploy anywhere. Our latest instruction-tuned model is available in 8B, 70B and 405B versions. Using our open ecosystem, build faster with a selection of differentiated product offerings to support your use cases. Choose from real-time inference or batch inference services. Download model weights to further optimize cost per token. Adapt for your application, improve with synthetic data and deploy on-prem or in the cloud. Use Llama system components and extend the model using zero shot tool use and RAG to build agentic behaviors. Leverage 405B high quality data to improve specialized models for specific use cases.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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Llama 3.2
Meta
The open-source AI model you can fine-tune, distill and deploy anywhere is now available in more versions. Choose from 1B, 3B, 11B or 90B, or continue building with Llama 3.1. Llama 3.2 is a collection of large language models (LLMs) pretrained and fine-tuned in 1B and 3B sizes that are multilingual text only, and 11B and 90B sizes that take both text and image inputs and output text. Develop highly performative and efficient applications from our latest release. Use our 1B or 3B models for on device applications such as summarizing a discussion from your phone or calling on-device tools like calendar. Use our 11B or 90B models for image use cases such as transforming an existing image into something new or getting more information from an image of your surroundings.Starting Price: Free -
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Phi-2
Microsoft
We are now releasing Phi-2, a 2.7 billion-parameter language model that demonstrates outstanding reasoning and language understanding capabilities, showcasing state-of-the-art performance among base language models with less than 13 billion parameters. On complex benchmarks Phi-2 matches or outperforms models up to 25x larger, thanks to new innovations in model scaling and training data curation. With its compact size, Phi-2 is an ideal playground for researchers, including for exploration around mechanistic interpretability, safety improvements, or fine-tuning experimentation on a variety of tasks. We have made Phi-2 available in the Azure AI Studio model catalog to foster research and development on language models. -
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Phi-3
Microsoft
A family of powerful, small language models (SLMs) with groundbreaking performance at low cost and low latency. Maximize AI capabilities, lower resource use, and ensure cost-effective generative AI deployments across your applications. Accelerate response times in real-time interactions, autonomous systems, apps requiring low latency, and other critical scenarios. Run Phi-3 in the cloud, at the edge, or on device, resulting in greater deployment and operation flexibility. Phi-3 models were developed in accordance with Microsoft AI principles: accountability, transparency, fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, and inclusiveness. Operate effectively in offline environments where data privacy is paramount or connectivity is limited. Generate more coherent, accurate, and contextually relevant outputs with an expanded context window. Deploy at the edge to deliver faster responses.
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