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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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GLM-5
Z.ai
GLM-5 is Z.ai’s latest large language model built for complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks. It scales significantly beyond GLM-4.5, increasing total parameters and training data while integrating DeepSeek Sparse Attention to reduce deployment costs without sacrificing long-context capacity. The model combines enhanced pre-training with a new asynchronous reinforcement learning infrastructure called slime, improving training efficiency and post-training refinement. GLM-5 achieves best-in-class performance among open-source models across reasoning, coding, and agent benchmarks, narrowing the gap with leading frontier models. It ranks highly on evaluations such as Vending Bench 2, demonstrating strong long-term planning and operational capabilities. The model is open-sourced under the MIT License.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-5.1
Z.ai
GLM-5.1 is the latest iteration of Z.ai’s GLM series, designed as a frontier-level, agent-oriented AI model optimized for coding, reasoning, and long-horizon workflows. It builds on the GLM-5 architecture, which uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) design to deliver high performance while keeping inference costs efficient, and is part of a broader push toward open-weight, developer-accessible models. A core focus of GLM-5.1 is enabling agentic behavior, meaning it can plan, execute, and iterate across multi-step tasks rather than simply responding to single prompts. It is specifically designed to handle complex workflows such as debugging code, navigating repositories, and executing chained operations with sustained context. Compared to earlier models, GLM-5.1 improves reliability in long interactions, maintaining coherence across extended sessions and reducing breakdowns in multi-step reasoning.Starting Price: Free -
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Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2.6 is a next-generation agentic AI model developed by Moonshot AI, designed to push forward real-world execution, coding, and multi-step reasoning beyond earlier K2 and K2.5 versions. It builds on a Mixture-of-Experts architecture and the multimodal, agent-first foundation of the Kimi series, combining language understanding, coding, and tool use into a single system capable of planning and executing complex workflows. It introduces deeper reasoning capabilities and significantly improved agent planning, allowing it to break down tasks, coordinate tools, and handle multi-file or multi-step problems with greater accuracy and efficiency. It supports advanced tool calling with high reliability, enabling integration with external systems such as web search or APIs, and includes built-in validation mechanisms to ensure correct execution formats.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen3.7-Max
Alibaba
Qwen3.7-Max is Qwen’s latest proprietary model designed for the agent era, built to be a versatile agent foundation that is equally capable of writing and debugging code, automating office workflows, and sustaining autonomous browser sessions over long horizons. It reaches frontier-level coding performance, with stronger results across software engineering, terminal tasks, GUI grounding, web browsing, and agentic tool use. Qwen3.7-Max is designed to reduce the gap between model intelligence and real agent execution by supporting planning, long-context reasoning, reliable function calling, and multi-step task completion across complex workflows. It also strengthens multimodal and document-oriented work through Qwen Studio, which supports chatbot interaction, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, presentation generation, coding assistance, deep research, and web development.Starting Price: Free -
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Falcon-40B
Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Falcon-40B is a 40B parameters causal decoder-only model built by TII and trained on 1,000B tokens of RefinedWeb enhanced with curated corpora. It is made available under the Apache 2.0 license. Why use Falcon-40B? It is the best open-source model currently available. Falcon-40B outperforms LLaMA, StableLM, RedPajama, MPT, etc. See the OpenLLM Leaderboard. It features an architecture optimized for inference, with FlashAttention and multiquery. It is made available under a permissive Apache 2.0 license allowing for commercial use, without any royalties or restrictions. ⚠️ This is a raw, pretrained model, which should be further finetuned for most usecases. If you are looking for a version better suited to taking generic instructions in a chat format, we recommend taking a look at Falcon-40B-Instruct.Starting Price: Free -
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Baichuan-13B
Baichuan Intelligent Technology
Baichuan-13B is an open source and commercially available large-scale language model containing 13 billion parameters developed by Baichuan Intelligent following Baichuan -7B . It has achieved the best results of the same size on authoritative Chinese and English benchmarks. This release contains two versions of pre-training ( Baichuan-13B-Base ) and alignment ( Baichuan-13B-Chat ). Larger size, more data : Baichuan-13B further expands the number of parameters to 13 billion on the basis of Baichuan -7B , and trains 1.4 trillion tokens on high-quality corpus, which is 40% more than LLaMA-13B. It is currently open source The model with the largest amount of training data in the 13B size. Support Chinese and English bilingual, use ALiBi position code, context window length is 4096.Starting Price: Free -
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Mixtral 8x7B
Mistral AI
Mixtral 8x7B is a high-quality sparse mixture of experts model (SMoE) with open weights. Licensed under Apache 2.0. Mixtral outperforms Llama 2 70B on most benchmarks with 6x faster inference. It is the strongest open-weight model with a permissive license and the best model overall regarding cost/performance trade-offs. In particular, it matches or outperforms GPT-3.5 on most standard benchmarks.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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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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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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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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Janus-Pro-7B
DeepSeek
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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DeepSeek-V2
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V2 is a state-of-the-art Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model introduced by DeepSeek-AI, characterized by its economical training and efficient inference capabilities. With a total of 236 billion parameters, of which only 21 billion are active per token, it supports a context length of up to 128K tokens. DeepSeek-V2 employs innovative architectures like Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) for efficient inference by compressing the Key-Value (KV) cache and DeepSeekMoE for cost-effective training through sparse computation. This model significantly outperforms its predecessor, DeepSeek 67B, by saving 42.5% in training costs, reducing the KV cache by 93.3%, and enhancing generation throughput by 5.76 times. Pretrained on an 8.1 trillion token corpus, DeepSeek-V2 excels in language understanding, coding, and reasoning tasks, making it a top-tier performer among open-source models.Starting Price: Free -
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Falcon Mamba 7B
Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Falcon Mamba 7B is the first open-source State Space Language Model (SSLM), introducing a groundbreaking architecture for Falcon models. Recognized as the top-performing open-source SSLM worldwide by Hugging Face, it sets a new benchmark in AI efficiency. Unlike traditional transformers, SSLMs operate with minimal memory requirements and can generate extended text sequences without additional overhead. Falcon Mamba 7B surpasses leading transformer-based models, including Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B and Mistral’s 7B, showcasing superior performance. This innovation underscores Abu Dhabi’s commitment to advancing AI research and development on a global scale.Starting Price: Free -
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R1 1776
Perplexity AI
Perplexity AI has open-sourced R1 1776, a large language model (LLM) based on DeepSeek R1 designed to enhance transparency and foster community collaboration in AI development. This release allows researchers and developers to access the model's architecture and codebase, enabling them to contribute to its improvement and adaptation for various applications. By sharing R1 1776 openly, Perplexity AI aims to promote innovation and ethical practices within the AI community.Starting Price: Free -
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Ai2 OLMoE
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Ai2 OLMoE is a fully open source mixture-of-experts language model that is capable of running completely on-device, allowing you to try our model privately and securely. Our app is intended to help researchers better explore how to make on-device intelligence better and to enable developers to quickly prototype new AI experiences, all with no cloud connectivity required. OLMoE is a highly efficient mixture-of-experts version of the Ai2 OLMo family of models. Experience which real-world tasks state-of-the-art local models are capable of. Research how to improve small AI models. Test your own models locally using our open-source codebase. Integrate OLMoE into other iOS applications. The Ai2 OLMoE app provides privacy and security by operating completely on-device. Easily share the output of your conversations with friends or colleagues. The OLMoE model and the application code are fully open source.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 -
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Gemma 3
Google
Gemma 3, introduced by Google, is a new AI model built on the Gemini 2.0 architecture, designed to offer enhanced performance and versatility. This model is capable of running efficiently on a single GPU or TPU, making it accessible for a wide range of developers and researchers. Gemma 3 focuses on improving natural language understanding, generation, and other AI-driven tasks. By offering scalable, powerful AI capabilities, Gemma 3 aims to advance the development of AI systems across various industries and use cases.Starting Price: Free -
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EXAONE Deep
LG
EXAONE Deep is a series of reasoning-enhanced language models developed by LG AI Research, featuring parameter sizes of 2.4 billion, 7.8 billion, and 32 billion. These models demonstrate superior capabilities in various reasoning tasks, including math and coding benchmarks. Notably, EXAONE Deep 2.4B outperforms other models of comparable size, EXAONE Deep 7.8B surpasses both open-weight models of similar scale and the proprietary reasoning model OpenAI o1-mini, and EXAONE Deep 32B shows competitive performance against leading open-weight models. The repository provides comprehensive documentation covering performance evaluations, quickstart guides for using EXAONE Deep models with Transformers, explanations of quantized EXAONE Deep weights in AWQ and GGUF formats, and instructions for running EXAONE Deep models locally using frameworks like llama.cpp and Ollama.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen3
Alibaba
Qwen3, the latest iteration of the Qwen family of large language models, introduces groundbreaking features that enhance performance across coding, math, and general capabilities. With models like the Qwen3-235B-A22B and Qwen3-30B-A3B, Qwen3 achieves impressive results compared to top-tier models, thanks to its hybrid thinking modes that allow users to control the balance between deep reasoning and quick responses. The platform supports 119 languages and dialects, making it an ideal choice for global applications. Its pre-training process, which uses 36 trillion tokens, enables robust performance, and advanced reinforcement learning (RL) techniques continue to refine its capabilities. Available on platforms like Hugging Face and ModelScope, Qwen3 offers a powerful tool for developers and researchers working in diverse fields.Starting Price: Free -
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Devstral
Mistral AI
Devstral is an open source, agentic large language model (LLM) developed by Mistral AI in collaboration with All Hands AI, specifically designed for software engineering tasks. It excels at navigating complex codebases, editing multiple files, and resolving real-world issues, outperforming all open source models on the SWE-Bench Verified benchmark with a score of 46.8%. Devstral is fine-tuned from Mistral-Small-3.1 and features a long context window of up to 128,000 tokens. It is optimized for local deployment on high-end hardware, such as a Mac with 32GB RAM or an Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU, and is compatible with inference frameworks like vLLM, Transformers, and Ollama. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, Devstral is available for free and can be accessed via Hugging Face, Ollama, Kaggle, Unsloth, and LM Studio.Starting Price: $0.1 per million input tokens -
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K2 Think
Institute of Foundation Models
K2 Think is an open source advanced reasoning model developed collaboratively by the Institute of Foundation Models at MBZUAI and G42. Despite only having 32 billion parameters, it delivers performance comparable to flagship models with many more parameters. It excels in mathematical reasoning, achieving top scores on competitive benchmarks such as AIME ’24/’25, HMMT ’25, and OMNI-Math-HARD. K2 Think is part of a suite of UAE-developed open models, alongside Jais (Arabic), NANDA (Hindi), and SHERKALA (Kazakh), and builds on the foundation laid by K2-65B, the fully reproducible open source foundation model released in 2024. The model is designed to be open, fast, and flexible, offering a web app interface for exploration, and with its efficiency in parameter positioning, it is a breakthrough in compact architectures for advanced AI reasoning.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.6
Z.ai
GLM-4.6 advances upon its predecessor with stronger reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities: it demonstrates clear improvements in inferential performance, supports tool use during inference, and more effectively integrates into agent frameworks. In benchmark tests spanning reasoning, coding, and agents, GLM-4.6 outperforms GLM-4.5 and shows competitive strength against models such as DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp and Claude Sonnet 4, though it still trails Claude Sonnet 4.5 in pure coding performance. In real-world tests using an extended “CC-Bench” suite across front-end development, tool building, data analysis, and algorithmic tasks, GLM-4.6 beats GLM-4.5 and approaches parity with Claude Sonnet 4, winning ~48.6% of head-to-head comparisons, while also achieving ~15% better token efficiency. GLM-4.6 is available via the Z.ai API, and developers can integrate it as an LLM backend or agent core using the platform’s API.Starting Price: Free -
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MiniMax M2
MiniMax
MiniMax M2 is an open source foundation model built specifically for agentic applications and coding workflows, striking a new balance of performance, speed, and cost. It excels in end-to-end development scenarios, handling programming, tool-calling, and complex, long-chain workflows with capabilities such as Python integration, while delivering inference speeds of around 100 tokens per second and offering API pricing at just ~8% of the cost of comparable proprietary models. The model supports “Lightning Mode” for high-speed, lightweight agent tasks, and “Pro Mode” for in-depth full-stack development, report generation, and web-based tool orchestration; its weights are fully open source and available for local deployment with vLLM or SGLang. MiniMax M2 positions itself as a production-ready model that enables agents to complete independent tasks, such as data analysis, programming, tool orchestration, and large-scale multi-step logic at real organizational scale.Starting Price: $0.30 per million input tokens -
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GLM-4.5V-Flash
Z.ai
GLM-4.5V-Flash is an open source vision-language model, designed to bring strong multimodal capabilities into a lightweight, deployable package. It supports image, video, document, and GUI inputs, enabling tasks such as scene understanding, chart and document parsing, screen reading, and multi-image analysis. Compared to larger models in the series, GLM-4.5V-Flash offers a compact footprint while retaining core VLM capabilities like visual reasoning, video understanding, GUI task handling, and complex document parsing. It can serve in “GUI agent” workflows, meaning it can interpret screenshots or desktop captures, recognize icons or UI elements, and assist with automated desktop or web-based tasks. Although it forgoes some of the largest-model performance gains, GLM-4.5V-Flash remains versatile for real-world multimodal tasks where efficiency, lower resource usage, and broad modality support are prioritized.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-4.7
Z.ai
GLM-4.7 is an advanced large language model designed to significantly elevate coding, reasoning, and agentic task performance. It delivers major improvements over GLM-4.6 in multilingual coding, terminal-based tasks, and real-world software engineering benchmarks such as SWE-bench and Terminal Bench. GLM-4.7 supports “thinking before acting,” enabling more stable, accurate, and controllable behavior in complex coding and agent workflows. The model also introduces strong gains in UI and frontend generation, producing cleaner webpages, better layouts, and more polished slides. Enhanced tool-using capabilities allow GLM-4.7 to perform more effectively in web browsing, automation, and agent benchmarks. Its reasoning and mathematical performance has improved substantially, showing strong results on advanced evaluation suites. GLM-4.7 is available via Z.ai, API platforms, coding agents, and local deployment for flexible adoption.Starting Price: Free -
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MiniMax-M2.1
MiniMax
MiniMax-M2.1 is an open-source, agentic large language model designed for advanced coding, tool use, and long-horizon planning. It was released to the community to make high-performance AI agents more transparent, controllable, and accessible. The model is optimized for robustness in software engineering, instruction following, and complex multi-step workflows. MiniMax-M2.1 supports multilingual development and performs strongly across real-world coding scenarios. It is suitable for building autonomous applications that require reasoning, planning, and execution. The model weights are fully open, enabling local deployment and customization. MiniMax-M2.1 represents a major step toward democratizing top-tier agent capabilities.Starting Price: Free -
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HunyuanWorld
Tencent
HunyuanWorld-1.0 is an open source AI framework and generative model developed by Tencent Hunyuan that creates immersive, explorable, and interactive 3D worlds from text prompts or image inputs by combining the strengths of 2D and 3D generation techniques into a unified pipeline. At its core, the project features a semantically layered 3D mesh representation that uses 360° panoramic world proxies to decompose and reconstruct scenes with geometric consistency and semantic awareness, enabling the creation of diverse, coherent environments that can be navigated and interacted with. Unlike traditional 3D generation methods that struggle with either limited diversity or inefficient data representations, HunyuanWorld-1.0 integrates panoramic proxy generation, hierarchical 3D reconstruction, and semantic layering to balance high visual quality and structural integrity while enabling exportable meshes compatible with common graphics workflows.Starting Price: Free -
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LFM2.5
Liquid AI
Liquid AI’s LFM2.5 is the next generation of on-device AI foundation models designed to deliver high-performance, efficient AI inference on edge devices such as phones, laptops, vehicles, IoT systems, and embedded hardware without relying on cloud compute. It extends the previous LFM2 architecture by significantly increasing the pretraining scale and reinforcement learning stages, yielding a family of hybrid models around 1.2 billion parameters that balance instruction following, reasoning, and multimodal capabilities for real-world agentic use cases. The LFM2.5 family includes Base (for fine-tuning and customization), Instruct (general-purpose instruction-tuned), Japanese-optimized, Vision-Language, and Audio-Language variants, all optimized for fast, on-device inference under tight memory constraints and available as open-weight models deployable via frameworks like llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, and ONNX.Starting Price: Free
