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

128 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.

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128 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
2
GLM 5.3 Flash
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
41.8 91% 1M Mid-size NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter, OpenCode Zen
3
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
DeepSeek
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
39.5 — 1M Frontier OrcaRouter, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter, OpenCode Zen
4
GLM 5.3 Flash Thinking
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
41.8 91% 1M Mid-size UnoRouter
5
Qwen 3.8 27B
Alibaba Cloud · 27B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
33.7 91% 262K Mid-size Groq, Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
6
GLM 5.2
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
33.7 90% 1M Frontier Together AI
7
MiniMax M3
MiniMax
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
29.2 93% 1M Frontier UnoRouter
8
Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
27.0 91% 256K Frontier NVIDIA Build
9
Nemotron 3 Ultra
NVIDIA · 550B · 55B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
22.9 87% 1M Frontier OpenRouter, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
10
Gemma 4 31B
Google DeepMind · 31B
VisionTool useOpen weights
19.0 86% 262K Mid-size OpenRouter, Together AI, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
11
Qwen 3.5 397B
Alibaba Cloud · 397B · 17B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
21.4 86% 262K Frontier UnoRouter
12
Qwen 3.6 27B
Alibaba Cloud · 27B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
21.4 84% 262K Mid-size UnoRouter
13
Gemma 4 26B A4B
Google DeepMind · 26B · 4B
VisionTool useOpen weights
16.7 79% 262K Mid-size OpenRouter, Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
14
GLM 4.7
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
22.2 86% 203K Frontier Together AI
15
Qwen 3.5 35B
Alibaba Cloud · 35B · 3B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
19.3 85% 262K Mid-size Together AI
16
MiniMax M2
MiniMax · 230B · 10B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
18.6 78% 205K Frontier Together AI, UnoRouter
17
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
NVIDIA · 30B · 3B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
12.9 74% 1M Mid-size +1OpenRouter, NVIDIA Build, Vercel AI Gateway, UnoRouter, OpenCode Zen
18
Qwen 3.6 35B
Alibaba Cloud · 35B · 3B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
18.2 84% 262K Mid-size Together AI
19
MiniMax M3.1 Flash
MiniMax
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
— — 1M Frontier NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter, OpenCode Zen
20
Qwen 3.5 122B
Alibaba Cloud · 122B · 10B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
17.7 83% 262K Frontier Together AI
21
Gemma 4 12B
Google DeepMind · 12B
VisionTool useOpen weights
14.2 75% 262K Mid-size Together AI, UnoRouter
22
GLM 4.7 Flash
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
14.9 58% 131K Mid-size Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
23
Qwen 3.5 9B
Alibaba Cloud · 9B
ReasoningCodingOpen weights
13.7 81% 262K Small Together AI, UnoRouter
24
Llama 4 Maverick Instruct Fp4
Meta · 400B · 17B
VisionTool useOpen weights
— — 1M Frontier Together AI
25
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni
NVIDIA · 30B · 3B
VisionReasoningTool useOpen weights
10.3 47% 256K Mid-size +1OpenRouter, Together AI, NVIDIA Build, TokenRouter, UnoRouter
26
Nemotron 3 Super
NVIDIA · 120B · 12B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
12.8 80% 262K Frontier NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
27
Nemotron 3 120B
NVIDIA · 120B · 12B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
— — 256K Frontier Cloudflare Workers AI
28
Nemotron SEA-LION V4.8 120B
NVIDIA · 120B · 12B · New
Tool useOpen weights
— — 262K Frontier UnoRouter
29
gpt-oss-120b
OpenAI · 117B · 5.1B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
11.6 78% 131K Frontier Groq, Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
30
gpt-oss-20b
OpenAI · 21B · 3.6B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
10.0 61% 131K Mid-size Groq, Cloudflare Workers AI, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
31
Qwen3 VL 235B
Alibaba Cloud · 235B · 22B
VisionReasoningTool useOpen weights
13.4 77% 262K Frontier Together AI
32
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
NVIDIA
VisionReasoningTool useOpen weights
— — 1M Mid-size OpenRouter, UnoRouter, OpenCode Zen
33
Cogito V1 Preview Llama 70B
Meta · 70B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Frontier Together AI
34
Meta Llama 3.1 70B
Meta · 70B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Frontier Together AI
35
GLM 4.7 Fp4
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
— — 203K Frontier Together AI
36
GLM 5 Fp4
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
— — 203K Frontier Together AI
37
MiniMax M2.5 Fp4
MiniMax
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
— — 8K Frontier Together AI
38
GLM Ocr
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Frontier Together AI
39
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Fp8 Fast
Meta · 70B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 24K Frontier Cloudflare Workers AI
40
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B
NVIDIA · 120B · 12B
VisionReasoningTool useOpen weights
— — — Frontier NVIDIA Build
41
Qwen2.5 VL 72B
Alibaba Cloud · 72B
VisionTool useOpen weights
— — 32K Frontier UnoRouter
42
LongCat 2.5
Meituan · New
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
— — — Frontier OpenCode Zen
43
Qwen3 30B
Alibaba Cloud · 30B · 3B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
9.8 71% 262K Mid-size Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
44
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super
NVIDIA · 120B · 12B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
12.8 80% 262K Frontier Together AI
45
MiniMax M1 80K
MiniMax
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
11.7 70% 1M Frontier Together AI
46
Qwen3 235B
Alibaba Cloud · 235B · 22B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
12.7 79% 262K Frontier Together AI
47
Llama 4 Scout
Meta · 109B · 17B
VisionTool useOpen weights
8.1 59% 10.5M Frontier Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
48
Minicpm5 2B
2B
Open weights
12.5 70% 131K Small UnoRouter
49
North Mini Code
Cohere
CodingOpen weights
9.9 76% 256K Small OpenRouter, UnoRouter
50
Qwen3 Next 80B
Alibaba Cloud · 80B · 3B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
11.2 76% 262K Frontier Together AI
51
Mistral Nemo
Mistral AI · 12B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Mid-size Mistral AI, Together AI, NVIDIA Build
52
MiniMax M1 40K
MiniMax
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
10.0 68% 1M Frontier Together AI
53
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Reasoning Free
NVIDIA · 30B · 3B
VisionReasoningTool useOpen weights
10.3 47% 256K Mid-size UnoRouter
54
QwQ 32B
Alibaba Cloud · 32B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
9.5 59% 24K Mid-size Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
55
GLM 5.3 Flash Search
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
— — 1M Mid-size UnoRouter
56
GLM 5.3 Flash Think Search
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
— — 1M Mid-size UnoRouter
57
Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
Alibaba Cloud · New
VisionReasoningTool useOpen weights
— — 1M Mid-size UnoRouter
58
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Alibaba Cloud
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
— — 1M Mid-size UnoRouter
59
Nemotron 3 Nano
NVIDIA · 30B · 3B
Tool useOpen weights
8.9 76% 1M Mid-size NVIDIA Build
60
Qwen3 Coder 30B
Alibaba Cloud · 30B · 3B
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
9.6 52% 262K Frontier Together AI
61
Gemma SEA-LION V4 27B
Google DeepMind · 27B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Mid-size Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
62
Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4b
NVIDIA
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
— — 66K Mid-size NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
63
Gemma 4 26B IT Chimerax
Google DeepMind · 26B · 4B
VisionTool useOpen weights
— — 262K Mid-size UnoRouter
64
Gemma 4 26B IT Darksoul
Google DeepMind · 26B · 4B
VisionTool useOpen weights
— — 262K Mid-size UnoRouter
65
Gemma 4 26B IT Luminous
Google DeepMind · 26B · 4B
VisionTool useOpen weights
— — 262K Mid-size UnoRouter
66
Gemma 4 26B IT Meromero
Google DeepMind · 26B · 4B
VisionTool useOpen weights
— — 262K Mid-size UnoRouter
67
Gemma 4 26B IT Moonlight
Google DeepMind · 26B · 4B
VisionTool useOpen weights
— — 262K Mid-size UnoRouter
68
Qwen SEA-LION V4.5 27B
Alibaba Cloud · 27B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 262K Mid-size UnoRouter
69
Llama 3.1 8B
Meta · 8B
Open weights
6.9 26% 128K Small Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
70
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano
NVIDIA · 30B · 3B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
8.9 76% 262K Mid-size Together AI
71
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
DeepSeek · 32B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
8.4 62% 80K Mid-size Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
72
Qwen3 4B
Alibaba Cloud · 4B
ReasoningOpen weights
8.8 67% 262K Small Together AI
73
Llama 3.3 70B
Meta · 70B
Tool useOpen weights
7.7 50% 131K Frontier Together AI, UnoRouter
74
Mixtral 8x7b Instruct V01
Mistral AI · 46.7B · 12.9B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 16K Mid-size Together AI
75
Cogito V1 Preview Qwen 32B
Alibaba Cloud · 32B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Mid-size Together AI
76
Cogito V1 Preview Qwen 14B
Alibaba Cloud · 14B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Mid-size Together AI
77
Qwen2.5 14B
Alibaba Cloud · 14B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Mid-size Together AI
78
Medgemma 27B Text
Google DeepMind · 27B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 131K Mid-size Together AI
79
DeepSeek Ocr 2
DeepSeek
Tool useOpen weights
— — 8K Mid-size Together AI
80
Mistral Small 3.1 24B
Mistral AI · 24B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 128K Mid-size Cloudflare Workers AI
81
GLM 4 1v Thinking Flash
Z.ai (Zhipu AI) · New
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
— — 66K Mid-size UnoRouter
82
GLM 4.5 Flash
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
— — 131K Mid-size UnoRouter
83
Qwen SEA-LION V4 32B
Alibaba Cloud · 32B
Tool useOpen weights
— — 33K Mid-size UnoRouter
84
Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B
NVIDIA · 49B
Tool useOpen weights
8.9 64% 16K Mid-size Together AI
85
Gemma 4 E4b
Google DeepMind
VisionOpen weights
8.9 58% 131K Small Together AI
86
Devstral Small
Mistral AI
CodingTool useOpen weights
8.7 43% 131K Mid-size Together AI
87
Magistral Small
Mistral AI
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
8.6 66% 41K Mid-size Together AI
88
Qwen3 32B
Alibaba Cloud · 32B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
8.6 67% 41K Mid-size Together AI
89
Ling 3.2 Flash
inclusionAI (Ant Group) · New
Open weights
— — 1M Small OpenRouter, UnoRouter
90
Llama 3.2 11B Vision
Meta · 11B
VisionTool useOpen weights
5.4 22% 131K Mid-size Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
91
Mistral Small
Mistral AI · 24B
Tool useOpen weights
5.8 38% 262K Mid-size Mistral AI, UnoRouter
92
Qwen3 14B
Alibaba Cloud · 14B
ReasoningTool useOpen weights
8.2 60% 2K Mid-size Together AI
93
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B
Alibaba Cloud · 32B
CodingTool useOpen weights
6.7 42% 33K Mid-size Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
94
Mistral Small 3.2
Mistral AI · 24B
Tool useOpen weights
8.2 51% 128K Mid-size UnoRouter
95
Llama 3.2 90B Vision
Meta · 90B
VisionTool useOpen weights
6.4 43% 16K Frontier Together AI, NVIDIA Build
96
Qwen 3.5 2B
Alibaba Cloud · 2B
ReasoningCodingOpen weights
6.9 46% 262K Small Together AI
97
Llama 3.2 1B
Meta · 1B
Open weights
4.8 20% 131K Small Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
98
Gemma 4 E2b
Google DeepMind
VisionOpen weights
7.8 43% 131K Small Together AI
99
Qwen2.5 72B
Alibaba Cloud · 72B
Tool useOpen weights
7.7 49% 131K Frontier Together AI
100
GLM 4 5v
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights
7.6 68% 66K Frontier Together AI
101
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
NVIDIA · 253B
Tool useOpen weights
7.5 73% 128K Frontier NVIDIA Build
102
Llama 3.1 405B
Meta · 405B
Tool useOpen weights
7.3 52% 131K Frontier Together AI
103
Qwen3 8B
Alibaba Cloud · 8B
ReasoningOpen weights
7.3 59% 41K Small Together AI
104
Llama 3.2 3B
Meta · 3B
Open weights
5.7 26% 128K Small Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
105
Qwen2.5 32B
Alibaba Cloud · 32B
Tool useOpen weights
6.9 47% 131K Mid-size Together AI
106
Llama 3.1 70B
Meta · 70B
Tool useOpen weights
6.6 41% 16K Frontier Together AI
107
Gemma 3 4B
Google DeepMind · 4B
VisionOpen weights
4.8 29% 66K Small Together AI, NVIDIA Build
108
Ling 3.1 Flash
inclusionAI (Ant Group)
Open weights
— — 262K Small UnoRouter
109
Molmo 7B D 0924
7B
Open weights
5.6 24% 4K Small Together AI
110
Sarvam M
Open weights
5.3 42% 33K Small Together AI
111
Qwen 3.1 7B
Alibaba Cloud · 1.7B
ReasoningOpen weights
5.2 36% 41K Small Together AI
112
Gemma 3 270M
Google DeepMind · 270M
Open weights
5.1 22% 33K Small Together AI
113
Granite 4.0 Micro
IBM
Open weights
5.1 34% 131K Small UnoRouter
114
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
DeepSeek · 7B
ReasoningOpen weights
— — 131K Small Together AI
115
Cogito V1 Preview Llama 8B
Meta · 8B
Open weights
— — 131K Small Together AI
116
Qwen2.5 3B
Alibaba Cloud · 3B
Open weights
— — 33K Small Together AI
117
Qwen2.5 1 5B
Alibaba Cloud · 1.5B
Open weights
— — 131K Small Together AI
118
Qwen2.5 7B
Alibaba Cloud · 7B
Open weights
— — 131K Small Together AI
119
Meta Llama 3.1 8B
Meta · 8B
Open weights
— — 131K Small Together AI
120
Granite 4.0 H Micro
IBM
Open weights
— — 131K Small Cloudflare Workers AI
121
Gemma 7B
Google DeepMind · 7B
Open weights
— — 4K Small Cloudflare Workers AI
122
Mistral Nemo Minitron 8B 8K
Mistral AI · 8B
Open weights
— — 8K Small NVIDIA Build
123
Qwen2.5 VL 7B
Alibaba Cloud · 7B
VisionOpen weights
— — 33K Small UnoRouter
124
Gemma 3 27B
Google DeepMind · 27B
VisionTool useOpen weights
4.9 43% 66K Mid-size Together AI
125
Gemma 3 1B
Google DeepMind · 1B
Open weights
4.8 24% 33K Small Together AI
126
Qwen 3.0 6B
Alibaba Cloud · 600M
Open weights
4.8 23% 41K Small Together AI
127
Gemma 3 12B
Google DeepMind · 12B
VisionTool useOpen weights
3.8 35% 128K Mid-size NVIDIA Build
128
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b
OpenAI · 21B · 3.6B · Moderation
Open weights
— — 131K Mid-size UnoRouter

Benchmarks: Artificial Analysis (September 24, 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?

128 models are free right now. Leaders by the Artificial Analysis index: GLM 5.3, GLM 5.3 Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash Thinking, Qwen 3.8 27B, GLM 5.2.

Where can I use GLM 5.3 for free?

GLM 5.3 is free at Together AI. 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.

See also