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Free open-weight model APIs

Open-weight models you can call for free via API and, when needed, run on your own hardware without vendor lock-in.

125 models11 providersup to 10.5M contextbest: GLM 5.3Updated:
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Open weights means the parameters are published, but licenses differ: Llama and Gemma have their own terms, while DeepSeek, Qwen, and gpt-oss are more permissive. Check the license before commercial use.

Size
125 found
# Model ↕ AA Index ↕ GPQA ↕ Context ↕ Size ↕ Free at ↕
1
GLM 5.3
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
44.8 92% 1M Frontier Together AI, NVIDIA Build
2
Kimi K3
Moonshot AI
VisionReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
43.6 94% 1M Frontier NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
3
GLM 5.3 Flash
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
41.8 91% 1M Mid-size OrcaRouter, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
4
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
DeepSeek
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
39.5 — 1M Frontier NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
5
Qwen3.8 27B
Alibaba Cloud · 27B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
33.7 91% 262K Mid-size OpenRouter, Groq, Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
6
DeepSeek V4 Pro
DeepSeek
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
36.0 93% 1M Frontier UnoRouter
7
GLM 5.2
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
33.7 90% 1M Frontier Together AI
8
DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
34.3 91% — Frontier OrcaRouter
9
Inkling Small
Thinking Machines Lab
ReasoningOpen weights
27.8 90% 1M Small OpenRouter
10
Qwen 3.6 Plus
Alibaba Cloud · New
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
27.0 88% 1M Frontier UnoRouter
11
Nemotron 3 Ultra
NVIDIA · 550B · 55B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
22.9 87% 1M Frontier OpenRouter, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
12
Inkling
Thinking Machines Lab
ReasoningOpen weights
25.0 87% 1M Small OpenRouter
13
Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
27.0 91% — Frontier NVIDIA Build
14
Hy3
Tencent
Open weights
25.3 90% — Small OrcaRouter
15
Ling 3.0 Flash Fin
inclusionAI (Ant Group)
Open weights
22.6 — 262K Small Nous Portal
16
Gemma 4 31B
Google DeepMind · 31B
VisionTool useOpen weights
19.0 86% 262K Mid-size OpenRouter, Together AI, NVIDIA Build
17
Gemma 4 26B A4B
Google DeepMind · 26B · 4B
VisionTool useOpen weights
16.7 79% 262K Mid-size OpenRouter, Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
18
GLM 4.7
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
22.2 86% 203K Frontier Together AI
19
LongCat 2.0
Meituan
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
19.1 78% 1M Frontier Nous Portal
20
Step 3.7 Flash
StepFun
ReasoningOpen weights
19.5 81% 262K Small Nous Portal
21
Qwen 3.5 35B
Alibaba Cloud · 35B · 3B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
19.3 85% 262K Mid-size Together AI
22
Qwen 3.5 122B
Alibaba Cloud · 122B · 10B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
17.7 83% 262K Frontier Together AI, UnoRouter
23
Qwen 3.6 35B
Alibaba Cloud · 35B · 3B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
18.2 84% 262K Mid-size Together AI
24
MiniMax M2
MiniMax · 230B · 10B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
18.6 78% 197K Frontier Together AI
25
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
NVIDIA · 30B · 3B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
12.9 74% 1M Mid-size OpenRouter, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
26
Nemotron 3 Super
NVIDIA · 120B · 12B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
12.8 80% 262K Frontier OpenRouter, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
27
GLM 4.7 Flash
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
14.9 58% 131K Mid-size Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
28
Llama 4 Maverick Instruct Fp4
Meta · 400B · 17B
VisionTool useOpen weights
— — 1M Frontier Together AI
29
LongCat 2.5 Preview
Meituan · New
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
— — 1M Frontier Nous Portal
30
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni
NVIDIA · 30B · 3B
VisionReasoningTool useOpen weights
10.3 47% 262K Mid-size +1OpenRouter, Together AI, NVIDIA Build, TokenRouter, UnoRouter
31
Gemma 4 12B
Google DeepMind · 12B
VisionTool useOpen weights
14.2 75% 262K Mid-size Together AI
32
Nemotron 3 120B
NVIDIA · 120B · 12B · New
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
— — 256K Frontier Cloudflare Workers AI
33
Mistral Large 3 675B
Mistral AI · 675B
CodingTool useOpen weights
— — 256K Frontier UnoRouter
34
Qwen 3.5 9B
Alibaba Cloud · 9B
ReasoningCodingOpen weights
13.7 81% 262K Small Together AI
35
gpt-oss-120b
OpenAI · 117B · 5.1B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
11.6 78% 131K Frontier Groq, Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
36
gpt-oss-20b
OpenAI · 21B · 3.6B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
10.0 61% 131K Mid-size Groq, Cloudflare Workers AI, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
37
Qwen3 VL 235B
Alibaba Cloud · 235B · 22B
VisionReasoningTool useOpen weights
13.4 77% 262K Frontier Together AI
38
Qwen 3.5 4B
Alibaba Cloud · 4B
ReasoningCodingOpen weights
13.1 77% 262K Small UnoRouter
39
Cogito V1 Preview Llama 70B
Meta · 70B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Frontier Together AI
40
Meta Llama 3.1 70B
Meta · 70B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Frontier Together AI
41
GLM 4.7 Fp4
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
— — 203K Frontier Together AI
42
GLM 5 Fp4
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
— — 203K Frontier Together AI
43
MiniMax M2.5 Fp4
MiniMax
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
— — 8K Frontier Together AI
44
GLM Ocr
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Frontier Together AI
45
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Fp8 Fast
Meta · 70B · New
Tool useOpen weights
— — 24K Frontier Cloudflare Workers AI
46
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super
NVIDIA · 120B · 12B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
12.8 80% 262K Frontier Together AI
47
MiniMax M1 80K
MiniMax
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
11.7 70% 1M Frontier Together AI
48
Qwen3 235B
Alibaba Cloud · 235B · 22B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
12.7 79% 262K Frontier Together AI
49
Qwen3 Next 80B
Alibaba Cloud · 80B · 3B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
11.2 76% 131K Frontier Together AI, UnoRouter
50
North Mini Code
Cohere
CodingOpen weights
9.9 76% 262K Small OpenRouter, UnoRouter
51
Qwen3 30B
Alibaba Cloud · 30B · 3B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
9.8 71% 262K Mid-size Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI
52
Mistral Nemo
Mistral AI · 12B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Mid-size Mistral AI, Together AI, NVIDIA Build
53
MiniMax M1 40K
MiniMax
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
10.0 68% 1M Frontier Together AI
54
Llama 4 Scout
Meta · 109B · 17B
VisionTool useOpen weights
8.1 59% 10.5M Frontier Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI
55
QwQ 32B
Alibaba Cloud · 32B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
9.5 59% 131K Mid-size Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
56
GLM 5.3 Flash Search
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
— — 1M Mid-size UnoRouter
57
Qwen3 Coder 30B
Alibaba Cloud · 30B · 3B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
9.6 52% 262K Frontier Together AI
58
Ling 3.0 Flash Sante
inclusionAI (Ant Group)
Open weights
— — 262K Small OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, Nous Portal, UnoRouter
59
DiffusionGemma 26B
Google DeepMind · 26B · 4B
Tool useOpen weights
9.5 67% 262K Mid-size UnoRouter
60
Llama 4 Maverick
Meta · 400B · 17B
VisionTool useOpen weights
10.0 67% 131K Frontier UnoRouter
61
Qwen SEA-LION V4.5 27B
Alibaba Cloud · 27B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 262K Mid-size UnoRouter
62
LFM2.5-2.6B
Liquid AI · 2.6B
Open weights
8.4 56% 128K Small OpenRouter, UnoRouter
63
Llama 3.2 11B Vision
Meta · 11B
VisionTool useOpen weights
5.4 22% 131K Mid-size Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
64
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano
NVIDIA · 30B · 3B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
8.9 76% 262K Mid-size Together AI
65
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
DeepSeek · 32B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
8.4 62% 80K Mid-size Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
66
Qwen3 4B
Alibaba Cloud · 4B
ReasoningOpen weights
8.8 67% 262K Small Together AI
67
Mixtral 8x7b Instruct V01
Mistral AI · 46.7B · 12.9B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 16K Mid-size Together AI
68
Cogito V1 Preview Qwen 32B
Alibaba Cloud · 32B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Mid-size Together AI
69
Cogito V1 Preview Qwen 14B
Alibaba Cloud · 14B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Mid-size Together AI
70
Qwen2.5 14B
Alibaba Cloud · 14B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Mid-size Together AI
71
Medgemma 27B Text
Google DeepMind · 27B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Mid-size Together AI
72
DeepSeek Ocr 2
DeepSeek
Tool useOpen weights
— — 8K Mid-size Together AI
73
Gemma SEA-LION V4 27B
Google DeepMind · 27B · New
Tool useOpen weights
— — 128K Mid-size Cloudflare Workers AI
74
Mistral Small 3.1 24B
Mistral AI · 24B · New
Tool useOpen weights
— — 128K Mid-size Cloudflare Workers AI
75
Mistral Nemotron
Mistral AI · 12B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 128K Mid-size UnoRouter
76
Qwen SEA-LION V4 32B
Alibaba Cloud · 32B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 33K Mid-size UnoRouter
77
Qwen3
Alibaba Cloud
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
— — 25K Mid-size UnoRouter
78
Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B
NVIDIA · 49B
Tool useOpen weights
8.9 64% 16K Mid-size Together AI
79
Gemma 4 E4b
Google DeepMind
VisionOpen weights
8.9 58% 131K Small Together AI
80
Nemotron 3 Nano
NVIDIA · 30B · 3B
Tool useOpen weights
8.9 76% — Mid-size NVIDIA Build
81
Devstral Small
Mistral AI
CodingTool useOpen weights
8.7 43% 131K Mid-size Together AI
82
Magistral Small
Mistral AI
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
8.6 66% 41K Mid-size Together AI
83
Qwen3 32B
Alibaba Cloud · 32B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
8.6 67% 41K Mid-size Together AI
84
Llama 3.1 8B
Meta · 8B
Open weights
6.9 26% 32K Small Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI
85
Mistral Small
Mistral AI · 24B
Tool useOpen weights
5.8 38% 256K Mid-size Mistral AI, UnoRouter
86
Qwen3 14B
Alibaba Cloud · 14B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
8.2 60% 2K Mid-size Together AI
87
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B
Alibaba Cloud · 32B
CodingTool useOpen weights
6.7 42% 131K Mid-size Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
88
Llama 3.2 90B Vision
Meta · 90B
VisionTool useOpen weights
6.4 43% 16K Frontier Together AI, NVIDIA Build
89
Qwen 3.5 2B
Alibaba Cloud · 2B
ReasoningCodingOpen weights
6.9 46% 262K Small Together AI
90
Gemma 4 E2b
Google DeepMind
VisionOpen weights
7.8 43% 131K Small Together AI
91
Llama 3.3 70B
Meta · 70B
Tool useOpen weights
7.7 50% 131K Frontier Together AI
92
Qwen2.5 72B
Alibaba Cloud · 72B
Tool useOpen weights
7.7 49% 131K Frontier Together AI
93
GLM 4 5v
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
7.6 68% 66K Frontier Together AI
94
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
NVIDIA · 253B
Tool useOpen weights
7.5 73% — Frontier NVIDIA Build
95
Nemotron Nano 12B V2 VL
NVIDIA · 12B
VisionTool useOpen weights
7.5 57% 131K Mid-size UnoRouter
96
Nemotron Nano 9B V2
NVIDIA · 9B
Open weights
7.4 57% 131K Small UnoRouter
97
Llama 3.1 405B
Meta · 405B
Tool useOpen weights
7.3 52% 131K Frontier Together AI
98
Qwen3 8B
Alibaba Cloud · 8B
ReasoningOpen weights
7.3 59% 41K Small Together AI
99
Qwen2.5 32B
Alibaba Cloud · 32B
Tool useOpen weights
6.9 47% 131K Mid-size Together AI
100
Llama 3.1 70B
Meta · 70B
Tool useOpen weights
6.6 41% 16K Frontier Together AI
101
Gemma 3 4B
Google DeepMind · 4B
VisionOpen weights
4.8 29% 66K Small Together AI, NVIDIA Build
102
Llama 3.2 1B
Meta · 1B
Open weights
4.8 20% 131K Small Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI
103
Ling 3.1 Flash
inclusionAI (Ant Group) · New
Open weights
— — 262K Small Vercel AI Gateway
104
Llama 3.2 3B
Meta · 3B · New
Open weights
5.7 26% 80K Small Cloudflare Workers AI
105
Molmo 7B D 0924
7B
Open weights
5.6 24% 4K Small Together AI
106
Sarvam M
Open weights
5.3 42% 33K Small Together AI
107
Qwen 3.1 7B
Alibaba Cloud · 1.7B
ReasoningOpen weights
5.2 36% 41K Small Together AI
108
Gemma 3 270M
Google DeepMind · 270M
Open weights
5.1 22% 33K Small Together AI
109
Granite 4.0 Micro
IBM
Open weights
5.1 34% 131K Small UnoRouter
110
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
DeepSeek · 7B
ReasoningOpen weights
— — 131K Small Together AI
111
Cogito V1 Preview Llama 8B
Meta · 8B
Open weights
— — 131K Small Together AI
112
Qwen2.5 3B
Alibaba Cloud · 3B
Open weights
— — 33K Small Together AI
113
Qwen2.5 1 5B
Alibaba Cloud · 1.5B
Open weights
— — 131K Small Together AI
114
Qwen2.5 7B
Alibaba Cloud · 7B
Open weights
— — 131K Small Together AI
115
Meta Llama 3.1 8B
Meta · 8B
Open weights
— — 131K Small Together AI
116
Granite 4.0 H Micro
IBM · New
Open weights
— — 131K Small Cloudflare Workers AI
117
Gemma 7B
Google DeepMind · 7B · New
Open weights
— — 4K Small Cloudflare Workers AI
118
Mistral Nemo Minitron 8B 8K
Mistral AI · 8B
Open weights
— — 8K Small NVIDIA Build
119
Qwen2.5 VL 7B
Alibaba Cloud · 7B
VisionOpen weights
— — 131K Small UnoRouter
120
Gemma 3 27B
Google DeepMind · 27B
VisionTool useOpen weights
4.9 43% 66K Mid-size Together AI
121
Gemma 3 1B
Google DeepMind · 1B
Open weights
4.8 24% 33K Small Together AI
122
Qwen 3.0 6B
Alibaba Cloud · 600M
Open weights
4.8 23% 41K Small Together AI
123
Gemma 3 12B
Google DeepMind · 12B
VisionTool useOpen weights
3.8 35% — Mid-size NVIDIA Build
124
Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety
NVIDIA · Moderation
Open weights
— — 128K Mid-size OpenRouter
125
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b
OpenAI · 21B · 3.6B · Moderation
Open weights
— — 131K Mid-size UnoRouter

Benchmarks: Artificial Analysis (September 30, 2026). A dash means the model is not on their leaderboard; we never estimate scores ourselves.

FAQ

Which open-weight models are free right now?

125 models are free right now. Leaders by the Artificial Analysis index: GLM 5.3, Kimi K3, GLM 5.3 Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Qwen3.8 27B, DeepSeek V4 Pro.

Where can I use GLM 5.3 for free?

GLM 5.3 is free at Together AI, NVIDIA Build. Each provider is OpenAI-compatible — just switch the base URL and key.

What are the limits of free access?

Open weights means the parameters are published, but licenses differ: Llama and Gemma have their own terms, while DeepSeek, Qwen, and gpt-oss are more permissive. Check the license before commercial use.

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