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DeepSeek-V4
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4 is a next-generation open-source language model designed for high-performance reasoning, coding, and long-context intelligence. It introduces a powerful architecture with up to one million token context length, enabling seamless handling of large datasets and complex multi-step workflows. The model comes in two variants: DeepSeek-V4-Pro for maximum performance and DeepSeek-V4-Flash for efficiency and speed. DeepSeek-V4-Pro features 1.6 trillion total parameters with 49 billion activated, delivering near state-of-the-art performance comparable to leading closed-source models. It excels in agentic coding, mathematical reasoning, and world knowledge tasks. The model integrates advanced attention mechanisms, including token-wise compression and sparse attention, significantly reducing compute and memory costs. It is also optimized for AI agents, supporting tool use and multi-step workflows.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen3.5
Alibaba
Qwen3.5 is a next-generation open-weight multimodal large language model designed to power native vision-language agents. The flagship release, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, combines a hybrid linear attention architecture with sparse mixture-of-experts, activating only 17 billion parameters per forward pass out of 397 billion total to maximize efficiency. It delivers strong benchmark performance across reasoning, coding, multilingual understanding, visual reasoning, and agent-based tasks. The model expands language support from 119 to 201 languages and dialects while introducing a 1M-token context window in its hosted version, Qwen3.5-Plus. Built for multimodal tasks, it processes text, images, and video with advanced spatial reasoning and tool integration. Qwen3.5 also incorporates scalable reinforcement learning environments to improve general agent capabilities. Designed for developers and enterprises, it enables efficient, tool-augmented, multimodal AI workflows.Starting Price: Free -
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Mistral Small 4
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 4 is an advanced open-source AI model developed by Mistral AI that combines reasoning, coding, and multimodal capabilities into a single system. It unifies the strengths of previous models such as Magistral for reasoning, Pixtral for multimodal processing, and Devstral for agentic coding tasks. The model can handle both text and image inputs, allowing it to perform tasks ranging from conversational chat to visual analysis and document understanding. Built with a mixture-of-experts architecture, Mistral Small 4 delivers efficient performance while scaling to complex workloads. It also features a configurable reasoning parameter that allows users to switch between fast responses and deeper analytical outputs. With a large context window and optimized inference performance, the model supports long-form interactions and complex workflows.Starting Price: Free -
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MiniMax M2.7
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.7 is an advanced AI model designed to enhance real-world productivity across coding, search, and office workflows. It is trained with reinforcement learning across numerous real-world environments, enabling it to handle complex, multi-step tasks effectively. The model excels in problem-solving by breaking down challenges before generating solutions across multiple programming languages. It delivers high-speed performance with rapid token generation, allowing tasks to be completed efficiently. With optimized reasoning and cost-effective pricing, it provides powerful capabilities while minimizing resource usage. It also achieves strong performance in software engineering benchmarks, reducing incident response time and improving development efficiency. Additionally, it supports advanced agentic workflows and professional-grade office tasks, making it highly versatile for modern work environments.Starting Price: Free -
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MiMo-V2-Pro
Xiaomi Technology
Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Pro is a flagship AI foundation model designed to power real-world agentic workflows and complex task execution. It is built to function as the core intelligence behind agent systems, enabling orchestration of multi-step processes and production-level tasks. The model demonstrates strong capabilities in coding, tool usage, and search-based tasks, performing competitively on global benchmarks. With its large-scale architecture and extended context window, it can handle long and complex interactions efficiently. MiMo-V2-Pro is optimized for practical applications, delivering reliable performance across development, automation, and enterprise workflows.Starting Price: $1/million tokens -
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Alibaba
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is part of the Qwen3.5 “Medium” model series, designed as a highly efficient, multimodal foundation model that balances strong reasoning ability with practical deployment requirements. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 35 billion total parameters but activates only about 3 billion per token, allowing it to deliver performance comparable to much larger models while significantly reducing computational cost. The model integrates a hybrid attention mechanism that combines linear attention with standard attention layers, enabling efficient long-context processing and improved scalability for complex tasks. As a native vision-language model, it can process both text and visual inputs, supporting use cases such as multimodal reasoning, coding, and agent-based workflows. It is designed to function as a general-purpose “AI agent,” capable of planning, tool use, and structured problem solving rather than just conversational responses.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen3.6-27B
Alibaba
Qwen3.6-27B is a dense, open source multimodal language model in the Qwen3.6 series, designed to deliver flagship-level performance in coding, reasoning, and agent-based workflows while maintaining a relatively efficient parameter size of 27 billion. It is positioned as a high-performance general model that “punches above its weight,” achieving results competitive with or superior to significantly larger models on key benchmarks, particularly in agentic coding tasks. It supports both thinking and non-thinking modes, allowing it to dynamically balance deep reasoning with fast responses depending on the task, and integrates capabilities across text and multimodal inputs such as images and video. Built as part of the Qwen3.6 family, the model emphasizes real-world usability, stability, and developer productivity, incorporating improvements driven by community feedback and practical deployment needs.Starting Price: Free -
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DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4-Pro is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model designed for advanced reasoning, coding, and long-context understanding. It features 1.6 trillion total parameters with 49 billion activated parameters, enabling high performance while maintaining efficiency. The model supports an exceptionally large context window of up to one million tokens, allowing it to process extensive documents and workflows. It uses a hybrid attention architecture to optimize long-context performance and reduce computational cost. DeepSeek-V4-Pro is trained on over 32 trillion tokens, improving its knowledge and reasoning capabilities. It also includes advanced optimization techniques for stability and faster convergence during training. The model supports multiple reasoning modes, allowing users to balance speed and accuracy based on their needs. Overall, it provides a powerful open-source solution for complex AI tasks and large-scale applications.Starting Price: Free -
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DeepSeek-V4-Flash
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4-Flash is a high-efficiency Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model designed for fast, scalable reasoning and text generation. It features 284 billion total parameters with 13 billion activated parameters, delivering strong performance while optimizing computational cost. The model supports an extensive context window of up to one million tokens, enabling it to process large documents and complex workflows with ease. Its hybrid attention architecture enhances long-context efficiency by reducing memory and compute requirements. Trained on over 32 trillion tokens, DeepSeek-V4-Flash demonstrates solid capabilities across knowledge, reasoning, and coding tasks. It is designed for scenarios where speed and efficiency are critical, offering a balance between performance and resource usage. The model also supports multiple reasoning modes, allowing users to adjust between faster outputs and deeper analysis.Starting Price: Free -
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FreedomGPT
Age of AI
FreedomGPT is a 100% uncensored and private AI chatbot launched by Age of AI, LLC. Our VC firm invests in startups that will define the age of Artificial Intelligence and we hold openness as core. We believe AI will dramatically improve the lives of everyone on this planet if it is deployed responsibly with individual freedom as paramount. It was created to showcase the inevitability and necessity of unbiased and censor free AI. Most importantly it is 100% private. If generative AI is going to be an extension of the human psyche it must not be involuntarily exposed to others. A central Age of AI investing thesis is that everyone and every organization will need their own private LLM. We strive to invest in companies that make this a reality across numerous industry verticals.Starting Price: Free -
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StarCoder
BigCode
StarCoder and StarCoderBase are Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs) trained on permissively licensed data from GitHub, including from 80+ programming languages, Git commits, GitHub issues, and Jupyter notebooks. Similar to LLaMA, we trained a ~15B parameter model for 1 trillion tokens. We fine-tuned StarCoderBase model for 35B Python tokens, resulting in a new model that we call StarCoder. We found that StarCoderBase outperforms existing open Code LLMs on popular programming benchmarks and matches or surpasses closed models such as code-cushman-001 from OpenAI (the original Codex model that powered early versions of GitHub Copilot). With a context length of over 8,000 tokens, the StarCoder models can process more input than any other open LLM, enabling a wide range of interesting applications. For example, by prompting the StarCoder models with a series of dialogues, we enabled them to act as a technical assistant.Starting Price: Free -
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Llama 2
Meta
The next generation of our open source large language model. This release includes model weights and starting code for pretrained and fine-tuned Llama language models — ranging from 7B to 70B parameters. Llama 2 pretrained models are trained on 2 trillion tokens, and have double the context length than Llama 1. Its fine-tuned models have been trained on over 1 million human annotations. Llama 2 outperforms other open source language models on many external benchmarks, including reasoning, coding, proficiency, and knowledge tests. Llama 2 was pretrained on publicly available online data sources. The fine-tuned model, Llama-2-chat, leverages publicly available instruction datasets and over 1 million human annotations. We have a broad range of supporters around the world who believe in our open approach to today’s AI — companies that have given early feedback and are excited to build with Llama 2.Starting Price: Free -
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Code Llama
Meta
Code Llama is a large language model (LLM) that can use text prompts to generate code. Code Llama is state-of-the-art for publicly available LLMs on code tasks, and has the potential to make workflows faster and more efficient for current developers and lower the barrier to entry for people who are learning to code. Code Llama has the potential to be used as a productivity and educational tool to help programmers write more robust, well-documented software. Code Llama is a state-of-the-art LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts. Code Llama is free for research and commercial use. Code Llama is built on top of Llama 2 and is available in three models: Code Llama, the foundational code model; Codel Llama - Python specialized for Python; and Code Llama - Instruct, which is fine-tuned for understanding natural language instructions.Starting Price: Free -
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ChatGPT Enterprise
OpenAI
Enterprise-grade security & privacy and the most powerful version of ChatGPT yet. 1. Customer prompts or data are not used for training models 2. Data encryption at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.2+) 3. SOC 2 compliant 4. Dedicated admin console and easy bulk member management 5. SSO and Domain Verification 6. Analytics dashboard to understand usage 7. Unlimited, high-speed access to GPT-4 and Advanced Data Analysis* 8. 32k token context windows for 4X longer inputs and memory 9. Shareable chat templates for your company to collaborateStarting Price: $60/user/month -
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GPT-5
OpenAI
GPT-5 is OpenAI’s most advanced AI model, delivering smarter, faster, and more useful responses across a wide range of topics including math, science, finance, and law. It features built-in thinking capabilities that allow it to provide expert-level answers and perform complex reasoning. GPT-5 can handle long context lengths and generate detailed outputs, making it ideal for coding, research, and creative writing. The model includes a ‘verbosity’ parameter for customizable response length and improved personality control. It integrates with business tools like Google Drive and SharePoint to provide context-aware answers while respecting security permissions. Available to everyone, GPT-5 empowers users to collaborate with an AI assistant that feels like a knowledgeable colleague.Starting Price: $1.25 per 1M tokens -
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TinyLlama
TinyLlama
The TinyLlama project aims to pretrain a 1.1B Llama model on 3 trillion tokens. With some proper optimization, we can achieve this within a span of "just" 90 days using 16 A100-40G GPUs. We adopted exactly the same architecture and tokenizer as Llama 2. This means TinyLlama can be plugged and played in many open-source projects built upon Llama. Besides, TinyLlama is compact with only 1.1B parameters. This compactness allows it to cater to a multitude of applications demanding a restricted computation and memory footprint.Starting Price: Free -
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Pixtral Large
Mistral AI
Pixtral Large is a 124-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal model developed by Mistral AI, building upon their Mistral Large 2 architecture. It integrates a 123-billion-parameter multimodal decoder with a 1-billion-parameter vision encoder, enabling advanced understanding of documents, charts, and natural images while maintaining leading text comprehension capabilities. With a context window of 128,000 tokens, Pixtral Large can process at least 30 high-resolution images simultaneously. The model has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks such as MathVista, DocVQA, and VQAv2, surpassing models like GPT-4o and Gemini-1.5 Pro. Pixtral Large is available under the Mistral Research License for research and educational use, and under the Mistral Commercial License for commercial applications.Starting Price: Free -
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OpenAI o3
OpenAI
OpenAI o3 is an advanced AI model designed to enhance reasoning capabilities by breaking down complex instructions into smaller, more manageable steps. It offers significant improvements over previous AI iterations, excelling in coding tasks, competitive programming, and achieving high scores in mathematics and science benchmarks. Available for widespread use, OpenAI o3 supports advanced AI-driven problem-solving and decision-making processes. The model incorporates deliberative alignment techniques to ensure its responses align with established safety and ethical guidelines, making it a powerful tool for developers, researchers, and enterprises seeking sophisticated AI solutions.Starting Price: $2 per 1 million tokens -
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Qwen2.5-1M
Alibaba
Qwen2.5-1M is an open-source language model developed by the Qwen team, designed to handle context lengths of up to one million tokens. This release includes two model variants, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M and Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M, marking the first time Qwen models have been upgraded to support such extensive context lengths. To facilitate efficient deployment, the team has also open-sourced an inference framework based on vLLM, integrated with sparse attention methods, enabling processing of 1M-token inputs with a 3x to 7x speed improvement. Comprehensive technical details, including design insights and ablation experiments, are available in the accompanying technical report.Starting Price: Free -
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DeepSeek R2
DeepSeek
DeepSeek R2 is the anticipated successor to DeepSeek R1, a groundbreaking AI reasoning model launched in January 2025 by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. Building on R1’s success, which disrupted the AI industry with its cost-effective performance rivaling top-tier models like OpenAI’s o1, R2 promises a quantum leap in capabilities. It is expected to deliver exceptional speed and human-like reasoning, excelling in complex tasks such as advanced coding and high-level mathematical problem-solving. Leveraging DeepSeek’s innovative Mixture-of-Experts architecture and efficient training methods, R2 aims to outperform its predecessor while maintaining a low computational footprint, potentially expanding its reasoning abilities to languages beyond English.Starting Price: Free -
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BitNet
Microsoft
The BitNet b1.58 2B4T is a cutting-edge 1-bit Large Language Model (LLM) developed by Microsoft, designed to enhance computational efficiency while maintaining high performance. This model, built with approximately 2 billion parameters and trained on 4 trillion tokens, uses innovative quantization techniques to optimize memory usage, energy consumption, and latency. The platform supports multiple modalities and is particularly valuable for applications in AI-powered text generation, offering substantial efficiency gains compared to full-precision models.Starting Price: Free -
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OpenAI o3-pro
OpenAI
OpenAI’s o3-pro is a high-performance reasoning model designed for tasks that require deep analysis and precision. It is available exclusively to ChatGPT Pro and Team subscribers, succeeding the earlier o1-pro model. The model excels in complex fields like mathematics, science, and coding by employing detailed step-by-step reasoning. It integrates advanced tools such as real-time web search, file analysis, Python execution, and visual input processing. While powerful, o3-pro has slower response times and lacks support for features like image generation and temporary chats. Despite these trade-offs, o3-pro demonstrates superior clarity, accuracy, and adherence to instructions compared to its predecessor.Starting Price: $20 per 1 million tokens -
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GPT-5.1
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 is the latest update in the GPT-5 series, designed to make ChatGPT dramatically smarter and more conversational. The release introduces two distinct model variants: GPT-5.1 Instant, which is described as the most-used model and is now warmer, better at following instructions, and more intelligent; and GPT-5.1 Thinking, which is the advanced reasoning engine that’s been tuned to be easier to understand, faster on straightforward tasks, and more persistent on complex ones. Users' queries are now routed automatically to the variant best-suited to the task. The update emphasizes not just improved raw intelligence but also enhanced communication style; the models are tuned to be more natural, enjoyable to talk to, and better aligned with user intents. The system card addendum notes that GPT-5.1 Instant uses “adaptive reasoning” that lets it decide when to think more deeply before responding, while GPT-5.1 Thinking adapts its thinking time accurately to the question at hand. -
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GigaChat 3 Ultra
Sberbank
GigaChat 3 Ultra is a 702-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model built from scratch to deliver frontier-level reasoning, multilingual capability, and deep Russian-language fluency. It activates just 36 billion parameters per token, enabling massive scale with practical inference speeds. The model was trained on a 14-trillion-token corpus combining natural, multilingual, and high-quality synthetic data to strengthen reasoning, math, coding, and linguistic performance. Unlike modified foreign checkpoints, GigaChat 3 Ultra is entirely original—giving developers full control, modern alignment, and a dataset free of inherited limitations. Its architecture leverages MoE, MTP, and MLA to match open-source ecosystems and integrate easily with popular inference and fine-tuning tools. With leading results on Russian benchmarks and competitive performance on global tasks, GigaChat 3 Ultra represents one of the largest and most capable open-source LLMs in the world.Starting Price: Free -
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GPT-5.2 Thinking
OpenAI
GPT-5.2 Thinking is the highest-capability configuration in OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 model family, engineered for deep, expert-level reasoning, complex task execution, and advanced problem solving across long contexts and professional domains. Built on the foundational GPT-5.2 architecture with improvements in grounding, stability, and reasoning quality, this variant applies more compute and reasoning effort to generate responses that are more accurate, structured, and contextually rich when handling highly intricate workflows, multi-step analysis, and domain-specific challenges. GPT-5.2 Thinking excels at tasks that require sustained logical coherence, such as detailed research synthesis, advanced coding and debugging, complex data interpretation, strategic planning, and sophisticated technical writing, and it outperforms lighter variants on benchmarks that test professional skills and deep comprehension. -
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GPT-5.2 Pro
OpenAI
GPT-5.2 Pro is the highest-capability variant of OpenAI’s latest GPT-5.2 model family, built to deliver professional-grade reasoning, complex task performance, and enhanced accuracy for demanding knowledge work, creative problem-solving, and enterprise-level applications. It builds on the foundational improvements of GPT-5.2, including stronger general intelligence, superior long-context understanding, better factual grounding, and improved tool use, while using more compute and deeper processing to produce more thoughtful, reliable, and context-rich responses for users with intricate, multi-step requirements. GPT-5.2 Pro is designed to handle challenging workflows such as advanced coding and debugging, deep data analysis, research synthesis, extensive document comprehension, and complex project planning with greater precision and fewer errors than lighter variants. -
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Qwen3-Max-Thinking
Alibaba
Qwen3-Max-Thinking is Alibaba’s latest flagship reasoning-enhanced large language model, built as an extension of the Qwen3-Max family and designed to deliver state-of-the-art analytical performance and multi-step reasoning capabilities. It scales up from one of the largest parameter bases in the Qwen ecosystem and incorporates advanced reinforcement learning and adaptive tool integration so the model can leverage search, memory, and code interpreter functions dynamically during inference to address difficult multi-stage tasks with higher accuracy and contextual depth compared with standard generative responses. Qwen3-Max-Thinking introduces a unique Thinking Mode that exposes deliberate, step-by-step reasoning before final outputs, enabling transparency and traceability of logical chains, and can be tuned with configurable “thinking budgets” to balance performance quality with computational cost. -
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Gemma 4
Google
Gemma 4 is an AI model introduced by Google and built on the Gemini architecture to deliver improved performance and flexibility. The model is designed to run efficiently on a single GPU or TPU, making it more accessible to developers and researchers. Gemma 4 enhances capabilities in natural language understanding and text generation, supporting a wide range of AI-driven applications. Its architecture allows it to handle complex tasks while maintaining efficient resource usage. Developers can use the model to build applications that rely on advanced language processing and automation. The design emphasizes scalability so that it can support both smaller projects and larger AI systems. By combining efficiency with powerful language capabilities, Gemma 4 helps advance the development of modern AI solutions.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen3.5-Omni
Alibaba
Qwen3.5-Omni is a next-generation, fully multimodal AI model developed by Alibaba that natively understands and generates text, images, audio, and video within a single unified system, enabling more natural and real-time human-AI interaction. Unlike traditional models that treat modalities separately, it is trained from the ground up on massive audiovisual datasets, allowing it to process complex inputs such as long audio streams, video, and spoken instructions simultaneously while maintaining strong performance across all formats. It supports long-context inputs of up to 256K tokens and can handle over 10 hours of audio or extended video sequences, making it suitable for demanding real-world applications. A key feature is its advanced voice interaction capabilities, including end-to-end speech dialogue, emotional tone control, and voice cloning, enabling highly natural conversational experiences that can whisper, shout, or adapt speaking style dynamically. -
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Qwen3.6
Alibaba
Qwen3.6 is a large language model developed by Alibaba as part of its Qwen AI model family, designed for real-world applications and advanced reasoning tasks. It focuses on improving stability, usability, and performance compared to earlier versions. The model supports multimodal capabilities, allowing it to process and reason across text, images, and other data types. Qwen3.6 is particularly strong in coding and developer workflows, offering improved accuracy for complex programming tasks. It uses a mixture-of-experts architecture, enabling efficient performance while maintaining large-scale model capabilities. The model is designed to be deployable in production environments, including enterprise and cloud-based systems. It can be integrated into applications or run locally using open-weight variants. Overall, Qwen3.6 delivers a powerful, efficient, and versatile AI solution for modern use cases.Starting Price: Free
