Compare the Top Free Multimodal Models as of August 2026 - Page 2

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    Llama 3.2
    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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    LLaVA

    LLaVA

    LLaVA

    LLaVA (Large Language-and-Vision Assistant) is an innovative multimodal model that integrates a vision encoder with the Vicuna language model to facilitate comprehensive visual and language understanding. Through end-to-end training, LLaVA exhibits impressive chat capabilities, emulating the multimodal functionalities of models like GPT-4. Notably, LLaVA-1.5 has achieved state-of-the-art performance across 11 benchmarks, utilizing publicly available data and completing training in approximately one day on a single 8-A100 node, surpassing methods that rely on billion-scale datasets. The development of LLaVA involved the creation of a multimodal instruction-following dataset, generated using language-only GPT-4. This dataset comprises 158,000 unique language-image instruction-following samples, including conversations, detailed descriptions, and complex reasoning tasks. This data has been instrumental in training LLaVA to perform a wide array of visual and language tasks effectively.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Llama 3.3
    Llama 3.3 is the latest iteration in the Llama series of language models, developed to push the boundaries of AI-powered understanding and communication. With enhanced contextual reasoning, improved language generation, and advanced fine-tuning capabilities, Llama 3.3 is designed to deliver highly accurate, human-like responses across diverse applications. This version features a larger training dataset, refined algorithms for nuanced comprehension, and reduced biases compared to its predecessors. Llama 3.3 excels in tasks such as natural language understanding, creative writing, technical explanation, and multilingual communication, making it an indispensable tool for businesses, developers, and researchers. Its modular architecture allows for customizable deployment in specialized domains, ensuring versatility and performance at scale.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Janus-Pro-7B
    Janus-Pro-7B is an innovative open-source multimodal AI model from DeepSeek, designed to excel in both understanding and generating content across text, images, and videos. It leverages a unique autoregressive architecture with separate pathways for visual encoding, enabling high performance in tasks ranging from text-to-image generation to complex visual comprehension. This model outperforms competitors like DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion in various benchmarks, offering scalability with versions from 1 billion to 7 billion parameters. Licensed under the MIT License, Janus-Pro-7B is freely available for both academic and commercial use, providing a significant leap in AI capabilities while being accessible on major operating systems like Linux, MacOS, and Windows through Docker.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Falcon 2

    Falcon 2

    Technology Innovation Institute (TII)

    Falcon 2 11B is an open-source, multilingual, and multimodal AI model, uniquely equipped with vision-to-language capabilities. It surpasses Meta’s Llama 3 8B and delivers performance on par with Google’s Gemma 7B, as independently confirmed by the Hugging Face Leaderboard. Looking ahead, the next phase of development will integrate a 'Mixture of Experts' approach to further enhance Falcon 2’s capabilities, pushing the boundaries of AI innovation.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Falcon 3

    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-VL

    Qwen2.5-VL

    Alibaba

    Qwen2.5-VL is the latest vision-language model from the Qwen series, representing a significant advancement over its predecessor, Qwen2-VL. This model excels in visual understanding, capable of recognizing a wide array of objects, including text, charts, icons, graphics, and layouts within images. It functions as a visual agent, capable of reasoning and dynamically directing tools, enabling applications such as computer and phone usage. Qwen2.5-VL can comprehend videos exceeding one hour in length and can pinpoint relevant segments within them. Additionally, it accurately localizes objects in images by generating bounding boxes or points and provides stable JSON outputs for coordinates and attributes. The model also supports structured outputs for data like scanned invoices, forms, and tables, benefiting sectors such as finance and commerce. Available in base and instruct versions across 3B, 7B, and 72B sizes, Qwen2.5-VL is accessible through platforms like Hugging Face and ModelScope.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Llama 4 Behemoth
    Llama 4 Behemoth is Meta's most powerful AI model to date, featuring a massive 288 billion active parameters. It excels in multimodal tasks, outperforming previous models like GPT-4.5 and Gemini 2.0 Pro across multiple STEM-focused benchmarks such as MATH-500 and GPQA Diamond. As the teacher model for the Llama 4 series, Behemoth sets the foundation for models like Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout. While still in training, Llama 4 Behemoth demonstrates unmatched intelligence, pushing the boundaries of AI in fields like math, multilinguality, and image understanding.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Llama 4 Maverick
    Llama 4 Maverick is one of the most advanced multimodal AI models from Meta, featuring 17 billion active parameters and 128 experts. It surpasses its competitors like GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash in a broad range of benchmarks, especially in tasks related to coding, reasoning, and multilingual capabilities. Llama 4 Maverick combines image and text understanding, enabling it to deliver industry-leading results in image-grounding tasks and precise, high-quality output. With its efficient performance at a reduced parameter size, Maverick offers exceptional value, especially in general assistant and chat applications.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Llama 4 Scout
    Llama 4 Scout is a powerful 17 billion active parameter multimodal AI model that excels in both text and image processing. With an industry-leading context length of 10 million tokens, it outperforms its predecessors, including Llama 3, in tasks such as multi-document summarization and parsing large codebases. Llama 4 Scout is designed to handle complex reasoning tasks while maintaining high efficiency, making it perfect for use cases requiring long-context comprehension and image grounding. It offers cutting-edge performance in image-related tasks and is particularly well-suited for applications requiring both text and visual understanding.
    Starting Price: Free
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    DeepSeek-VL

    DeepSeek-VL

    DeepSeek

    DeepSeek-VL is an open source Vision-Language (VL) model designed for real-world vision and language understanding applications. Our approach is structured around three key dimensions: We strive to ensure our data is diverse, scalable, and extensively covers real-world scenarios, including web screenshots, PDFs, OCR, charts, and knowledge-based content, aiming for a comprehensive representation of practical contexts. Further, we create a use case taxonomy from real user scenarios and construct an instruction tuning dataset accordingly. The fine-tuning with this dataset substantially improves the model's user experience in practical applications. Considering efficiency and the demands of most real-world scenarios, DeepSeek-VL incorporates a hybrid vision encoder that efficiently processes high-resolution images (1024 x 1024), while maintaining a relatively low computational overhead.
    Starting Price: Free
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    SAM Audio
    SAM Audio is a next-generation AI model for detailed audio segmentation and editing. It lets users isolate specific sounds from complex audio mixtures using intuitive prompts that mimic how people think about sound. You can type descriptive text (like “remove dog barking” or “keep vocals only”), click on objects in a video to pull their associated audio, or mark specific time spans where target sounds occur — all in one unified system. SAM Audio is available for experimentation and integration through Meta’s Segment Anything Playground platform, where users can upload their own audio or video files and instantly try SAM Audio’s capabilities. It’s also downloadable for use in custom audio and research workflows. Unlike traditional audio tools that focus on single, narrow tasks, SAM Audio supports multiple kinds of prompts and real-world sound environments with high accuracy.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Qwen3.5

    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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    Nemotron 3 Nano Omni
    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is an open, omni-modal foundation model designed to unify perception and reasoning across text, images, audio, video, and documents within a single efficient architecture. It eliminates the need for separate models for each modality, reducing inference latency, orchestration complexity, and cost while maintaining consistent cross-modal context. It is purpose-built for agentic AI systems, acting as a perception and context sub-agent that gives larger AI agents the ability to “see, hear, and read” in real time across screens, recordings, and structured or unstructured data. It supports advanced multimodal reasoning tasks such as document understanding, speech recognition, long audio-video analysis, and computer-use workflows, enabling agents to interpret dynamic interfaces and complex environments. Built with a hybrid architecture optimized for long context and throughput, it can process large inputs like multi-page documents.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Pixtral Large

    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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    Qwen2.5-1M

    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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    Grok 3 mini

    Grok 3 mini

    SpaceXAI

    Grok-3 Mini, crafted by xAI, is an agile and insightful AI companion tailored for users who need quick, yet thorough answers to their questions. This smaller version maintains the essence of the Grok series, offering an external, often humorous perspective on human affairs with a focus on efficiency. Designed for those on the move or with limited resources, Grok-3 Mini delivers the same level of curiosity and helpfulness in a more compact form. It's adept at handling a broad spectrum of questions, providing succinct insights without compromising on depth or accuracy, making it a perfect tool for fast-paced, modern-day inquiries.
    Starting Price: Free
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    GPT-5.1

    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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    GPT-5.2 Thinking
    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 Instant
    GPT-5.2 Instant is the fast, capable variant of OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 model family designed for everyday work and learning with clear improvements in information-seeking questions, how-tos and walkthroughs, technical writing, and translation compared to prior versions. It builds on the warmer conversational tone introduced in GPT-5.1 Instant and produces clearer explanations that surface key information upfront, making it easier for users to get concise, accurate answers quickly. GPT-5.2 Instant delivers speed and responsiveness for typical tasks like answering queries, generating summaries, assisting with research, and helping with writing and editing, while incorporating broader enhancements from the GPT-5.2 series in reasoning, long-context handling, and factual grounding. As part of the GPT-5.2 lineup, it shares the same foundational improvements that boost overall reliability and performance across a wide range of everyday activities.
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    GPT-5.2 Pro
    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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    Grok 4.6

    Grok 4.6

    SpaceXAI

    Grok 4.6 is an upcoming AI model from xAI with 2 trillion parameters expected to continue the Grok model family’s focus on advanced reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and knowledge work. While xAI has not yet published a full official product page for Grok 4.6, public reporting indicates that Elon Musk confirmed the model is in development. Grok 4.6 is likely to build on the capabilities introduced in Grok 4.5, which xAI describes as its smartest model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. The broader Grok platform supports chat, coding, image creation, real-time answers from the web and X, and API access for developers. For businesses and builders, Grok 4.6 may become relevant for software engineering, research, automation, AI agents, and productivity workflows once details are released. Built for users who want access to xAI’s newest frontier models, Grok 4.6 represents the next expected step in the company’s fast-moving AI roadmap.
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    Grok 4.7

    Grok 4.7

    SpaceXAI

    Grok 4.7 is an upcoming xAI model expected to continue the Grok 4.x family’s focus on coding, reasoning, agentic workflows, and knowledge work. While xAI has not yet published an official Grok 4.7 launch page, model card, API slug, pricing, or benchmark report, the model is positioned as a future step beyond currently documented Grok 4-era releases. Grok 4.7 will likely build on xAI’s recent work around software engineering, tool use, long-context reasoning, multimodal capabilities, and real-time AI assistance. Developers and AI teams should treat Grok 4.7 as an upcoming model rather than a generally available product until xAI releases official documentation. Once available, it may be relevant for coding agents, research workflows, automation, technical support, and enterprise AI applications. Built for developers and power users tracking xAI’s roadmap, Grok 4.7 represents a likely next-stage model for advanced reasoning and agentic productivity.