Best Open-Source AI Models

Compare powerful open-weights and open-source models from Meta, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek, and more.

All ModelsCodingMath & LogicLong ContextCheapestOpen SourceDaily Use
DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp Cybersecurity

DeepSeek

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
Flex
$0.15 in / $0.50 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26B A4B Cybersecurity

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
Flex
$0.12 in / $0.38 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen 3.8 27B Cybersecurity

Qwen

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
Flex
$0.25 in / $1.50 out
/M Tokens
DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

DeepSeek

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.15 in / $0.60 out
/M Tokens
DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 Flash (Free)

DeepSeek

Function Call
Reasoning
LLM
$0.00 in / $0.00 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B MeroMero v2

Google

Vision
Function Call
LLM
Flex
$0.10 in / $0.44 out
/M Tokens
DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

DeepSeek

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.23 in / $0.67 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen3.8 27B

Qwen

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.40 in / $3.00 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen3.8 27B Uncensored

Qwen

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.25 in / $1.50 out
/M Tokens
DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

DeepSeek

Function Call
Reasoning
LLM
$1.30 in / $2.50 out
/M Tokens
Meta

Glimmer 30B (Free)

Meta

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.00 in / $0.00 out
/M Tokens
Meta

Muse Glimmer 30B

Meta

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.30 in / $1.20 out
/M Tokens
Meta

Muse Spark 1.2

Meta

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$1.25 in / $4.25 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$2.00 in / $6.00 out
/M Tokens
DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

DeepSeek

Function Call
Reasoning
LLM
$0.14 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
Meta

Muse Spark 1.1

Meta

Function Call
Reasoning
LLM
$1.25 in / $4.25 out
/M Tokens
Google

DiffusionGemma

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.06 in / $0.18 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen 3.7 Plus

Qwen

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.42 in / $1.68 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen 3.7 Max

Qwen

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$2.38 in / $7.13 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B Mero Artemis v0.3.1

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.28 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B Novelist

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
Flex
$0.10 in / $0.44 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B SDFT Heretic RP

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.28 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen3.5 27B Blossom V6.4 Derestricted

Qwen

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.28 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen3.5 27B Claude 4.6 Opus Reasoning Distilled Derestricted

Qwen

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.28 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen3.5 27B Claude 4.6 Opus Reasoning Distilled Derestricted Lite

Qwen

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.28 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B Agares v1

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.28 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B Animus V14.1

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.28 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B AssGuard

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.28 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B Claude 4.6 Opus Reasoning Distilled

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.28 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B Cognitive Unshackled

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.28 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B Dark Gemistry

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
Flex
$0.10 in / $0.44 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B DarkIdol

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
Flex
$0.10 in / $0.44 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B Fabled

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
Flex
$0.10 in / $0.44 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B Garnet V2

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
Flex
$0.10 in / $0.44 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B Gembrain Uncensored Heretic

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.28 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B Gembrain X Core

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
Flex
$0.10 in / $0.44 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B Isometry RP

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
Flex
$0.10 in / $0.44 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B K1 v5

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.28 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B MeroMero

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
Flex
$0.10 in / $0.44 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B Queen

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
Flex
$0.10 in / $0.44 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B StyleTune

Google

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.28 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen 3.5 27B BlueStar v3 Derestricted

Qwen

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.28 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek

Function Call
Reasoning
LLM
$0.12 in / $0.25 out
/M Tokens
DeepSeek

DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek

Function Call
Reasoning
LLM
$1.57 in / $3.13 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen3.6 27B

Qwen

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.54 in / $3.24 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen

Function Call
Reasoning
LLM
$1.17 in / $7.41 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Qwen

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.27 in / $1.57 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.18 in / $1.04 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26B A4B

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.11 in / $0.36 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31B

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
Flex
$0.11 in / $0.33 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen3.5 0.8B

Qwen

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.10 in / $0.15 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen3.5 2B

Qwen

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.10 in / $0.15 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen3.5 4B

Qwen

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.10 in / $0.15 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen 3.5 122B A10B

Qwen

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.37 in / $2.94 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen 3.5 27

Qwen

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.28 in / $2.20 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen 3.5 35B A3B

Qwen

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.18 in / $0.46 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

Qwen 3.5 Flash

Qwen

Vision
Reasoning
LLM
$0.09 in / $0.37 out
/M Tokens
Mistral

Devstral 2 2512

Mistral

Function Call
LLM
$0.15 in / $0.60 out
/M Tokens
HuggingFace

DeepSeek V3.1 Nex N1

Nex AGI

Function Call
LLM
$0.25 in / $0.39 out
/M Tokens
DeepSeek

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek

Function Call
LLM
$0.25 in / $0.39 out
/M Tokens
DeepSeek

DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus

DeepSeek

Function Call
LLM
$0.23 in / $0.64 out
/M Tokens
DeepSeek

DeepSeek V3.2 Exp

DeepSeek

Function Call
LLM
$0.25 in / $0.40 out
/M Tokens
Zhipu

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

Alibaba

Function Call
LLM
$0.18 in / $0.70 out
/M Tokens
Zhipu

Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507

Alibaba

Function Call
Reasoning
LLM
$0.18 in / $0.70 out
/M Tokens
DeepSeek

DeepSeek V3.1

DeepSeek

Function Call
LLM
$0.18 in / $0.64 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 3n 2B

Google

Function Call
LLM
5% off
$0.03 in / $0.02 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 3n 4B

Google

Function Call
LLM
5% off
$0.05 in / $0.04 out
/M Tokens
Meta

Llama 4 Maverick

Meta

Vision
Function Call
LLM
$0.11 in / $0.44 out
/M Tokens
Meta

Llama 4 Scout

Meta

Vision
Function Call
LLM
$0.10 in / $0.23 out
/M Tokens
DeepSeek

DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

Function Call
LLM
$0.23 in / $0.64 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 3 4B

Google

Function Call
LLM
5% off
$0.01 in / $0.03 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 3 12B

Google

Function Call
LLM
5% off
$0.03 in / $0.10 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 3 27B

Google

Vision
Function Call
LLM
5% off
$0.04 in / $0.15 out
/M Tokens
AlibabaCloud

QwQ 32B

Qwen

Function Call
Reasoning
LLM
$0.50 in / $1.00 out
/M Tokens
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Aion-RP 1.0 8B

AionLabs

Function Call
LLM
$0.20 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
Mistral

Mistral Small 3

Mistral

LLM
$0.14 in / $0.28 out
/M Tokens
DeepSeek

R1 Distill Qwen 32B

DeepSeek

Function Call
Reasoning
LLM
$0.30 in / $2.93 out
/M Tokens
DeepSeek

DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek

Function Call
Reasoning
LLM
$0.37 in / $1.56 out
/M Tokens
DeepSeek

DeepSeek R1 0528

DeepSeek

Function Call
Reasoning
LLM
$0.37 in / $1.56 out
/M Tokens
Meta

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Meta

Function Call
LLM
$0.10 in / $0.32 out
/M Tokens
Meta

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct

Meta

LLM
$0.15 in / $0.07 out
/M Tokens
Meta

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Meta

LLM
$0.02 in / $0.05 out
/M Tokens
Meta

Llama 3.1 405B

Meta

LLM
$1.50 in / $1.50 out
/M Tokens
Meta

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Meta

LLM
$0.09 in / $0.09 out
/M Tokens
Mistral

Mistral Nemo Instruct

Mistral

LLM
$0.02 in / $0.04 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26b A4b It Chimerax

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
Flex
$0.12 in / $0.37 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26b A4b It Chimerax (Free)

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.00 in / $0.00 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26b A4b It Darksoul

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
Flex
$0.12 in / $0.37 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26b A4b It Darksoul (Free)

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.00 in / $0.00 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26b A4b It Luminous

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
Flex
$0.12 in / $0.37 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26b A4b It Luminous (Free)

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.00 in / $0.00 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26b A4b It Meromero

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
Flex
$0.12 in / $0.37 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26b A4b It Moonlight

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
Flex
$0.12 in / $0.37 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26b A4b It Moonlight (Free)

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.00 in / $0.00 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26b A4b It Musica

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
Flex
$0.12 in / $0.37 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26b A4b It Musica (Free)

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.00 in / $0.00 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26b A4b It Opusdistill

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
Flex
$0.12 in / $0.37 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26b A4b It Shadowsiren

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
Flex
$0.12 in / $0.37 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 26B MeroMero (Free)

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
$0.00 in / $0.00 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31b It Gembrain Heretic

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
Flex
$0.10 in / $0.44 out
/M Tokens
Google

Gemma 4 31b It Gemsicle

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
Flex
$0.10 in / $0.44 out
/M Tokens
Google

Qwen3.8 27b Fable

Google

Vision
Function Call
Reasoning
Flex
$0.10 in / $0.44 out
/M Tokens
altworldAL

Qwen3.8 27B Hemmingway

Altworld

Function Call
Reasoning
LLM
$0.25 in / $1.00 out
/M Tokens

Best Open-Source & Open-Weights AI Models 2026

Powerful, transparent, and customizable LLMs from DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama, and more.

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