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.

136 models12 providersup to 10.5M contextbest: GLM 5.3 FlashUpdated: November 2, 2026 at 05:25 PM UTC

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.

#	Model ↕	AA Index ↕	GPQA ↕	Context ↕	Size ↕	Free at ↕
1	GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai (Zhipu AI) ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	41.8	91%	1M	Mid-size	OrcaRouter, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter, OpenCode Zen
2	GLM 5.3 Z.ai (Zhipu AI) ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	44.8	92%	1M	Frontier	Together AI
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	DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	34.3	91%	1M	Frontier	OrcaRouter
7	GLM 5.2 Z.ai (Zhipu AI) ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	33.7	90%	1M	Frontier	Together AI
8	Inkling Small Thinking Machines Lab ReasoningOpen weights	27.8	90%	1M	Small	OpenRouter
9	Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	27.0	91%	256K	Frontier	NVIDIA Build
10	Nemotron 3 Ultra NVIDIA · 550B · 55B ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	22.9	87%	1M	Frontier	OpenRouter, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
11	Inkling Thinking Machines Lab ReasoningOpen weights	25.0	87%	1M	Small	OpenRouter
12	Hy3 Tencent Open weights	25.3	90%	256K	Small	OrcaRouter
13	Gemma 4 31B Google DeepMind · 31B VisionTool useOpen weights	19.0	86%	262K	Mid-size	OpenRouter, Together AI, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
14	MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	22.8	85%	205K	Frontier	UnoRouter
15	Qwen 3.5 397B Alibaba Cloud · 397B · 17B ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	21.4	86%	262K	Frontier	UnoRouter
16	Qwen 3.6 27B Alibaba Cloud · 27B ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	21.4	84%	262K	Mid-size	UnoRouter
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	Qwen 3.6 35B Alibaba Cloud · 35B · 3B ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	18.2	84%	262K	Mid-size	Together AI, UnoRouter
20	Step 3.7 Flash StepFun ReasoningTool useOpen weights	19.5	81%	262K	Frontier	Nous Portal
21	Qwen 3.5 35B Alibaba Cloud · 35B · 3B ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	19.3	85%	262K	Mid-size	Together AI
22	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
23	Qwen 3.5 122B Alibaba Cloud · 122B · 10B ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	17.7	83%	262K	Frontier	Together AI
24	MiniMax M2 MiniMax · 230B · 10B ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	18.6	78%	197K	Frontier	Together AI
25	Gemma 4 12B Google DeepMind · 12B VisionTool useOpen weights	14.2	75%	262K	Mid-size	Together AI, UnoRouter
26	GLM 4.7 Flash Z.ai (Zhipu AI) ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	14.9	58%	131K	Mid-size	Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
27	Qwen 3.5 9B Alibaba Cloud · 9B ReasoningCodingOpen weights	13.7	81%	262K	Small	Together AI, UnoRouter
28	Llama 4 Maverick Instruct Fp4 Meta · 400B · 17B VisionTool useOpen weights	—	—	1M	Frontier	Together AI
29	Qwen3 Coder Plus Alibaba Cloud ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	—	—	1M	Frontier	UnoRouter
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	Nemotron 3 Super NVIDIA · 120B · 12B ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	12.8	80%	262K	Frontier	NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
32	Nemotron 3 120B NVIDIA · 120B · 12B ReasoningTool useOpen weights	—	—	256K	Frontier	Cloudflare Workers AI
33	Mistral Small 4 119B Mistral AI · 119B · New Tool useOpen weights	—	—	262K	Frontier	UnoRouter
34	gpt-oss-120b OpenAI · 117B · 5.1B ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	11.6	78%	131K	Frontier	Groq, Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
35	gpt-oss-20b OpenAI · 21B · 3.6B ReasoningTool useOpen weights	10.0	61%	131K	Mid-size	Groq, Cloudflare Workers AI, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
36	Qwen3 VL 235B Alibaba Cloud · 235B · 22B VisionReasoningTool useOpen weights	13.4	77%	262K	Frontier	Together AI
37	Qwen 3.5 4B Alibaba Cloud · 4B ReasoningCodingOpen weights	13.1	77%	262K	Small	UnoRouter
38	Nemotron 3.5 Super VL NVIDIA VisionReasoningTool useOpen weights	—	—	1M	Mid-size	OpenRouter, UnoRouter, OpenCode Zen
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 Tool useOpen weights	—	—	24K	Frontier	Cloudflare Workers AI
46	MiniMax M3.1 Flash MiniMax ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	—	—	—	Frontier	NVIDIA Build
47	Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B NVIDIA · 120B · 12B VisionReasoningTool useOpen weights	—	—	—	Frontier	NVIDIA Build
48	GLM 4 Z.ai (Zhipu AI) ReasoningTool useOpen weights	—	—	25K	Frontier	UnoRouter
49	Qwen2.5 VL 72B Alibaba Cloud · 72B · New VisionTool useOpen weights	—	—	32K	Frontier	UnoRouter
50	Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super NVIDIA · 120B · 12B ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	12.8	80%	262K	Frontier	Together AI
51	MiniMax M1 80K MiniMax ReasoningTool useOpen weights	11.7	70%	1M	Frontier	Together AI
52	Qwen3 235B Alibaba Cloud · 235B · 22B ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	12.7	79%	262K	Frontier	Together AI
53	Mistral Nemo Mistral AI · 12B Tool useOpen weights	—	—	131K	Mid-size	Mistral AI, Together AI, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
54	Llama 4 Scout Meta · 109B · 17B VisionTool useOpen weights	8.1	59%	10.5M	Frontier	Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
55	Minicpm5 2B 2B Open weights	12.5	70%	131K	Small	UnoRouter
56	North Mini Code Cohere CodingOpen weights	9.9	76%	262K	Small	OpenRouter, UnoRouter
57	Qwen3 30B Alibaba Cloud · 30B · 3B ReasoningTool useOpen weights	9.8	71%	262K	Mid-size	Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI
58	Qwen3 Next 80B Alibaba Cloud · 80B · 3B ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	11.2	76%	262K	Frontier	Together AI
59	MiniMax M1 40K MiniMax ReasoningTool useOpen weights	10.0	68%	1M	Frontier	Together AI
60	QwQ 32B Alibaba Cloud · 32B ReasoningTool useOpen weights	9.5	59%	24K	Mid-size	Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
61	GLM 5.3 Flash Search Z.ai (Zhipu AI) ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	—	—	1M	Mid-size	UnoRouter
62	GLM 5.3 Flash Think Search Z.ai (Zhipu AI) ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	—	—	1M	Mid-size	UnoRouter
63	Nemotron 3 Nano NVIDIA · 30B · 3B Tool useOpen weights	8.9	76%	1M	Mid-size	NVIDIA Build
64	Qwen3 Coder 30B Alibaba Cloud · 30B · 3B ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	9.6	52%	262K	Frontier	Together AI
65	DiffusionGemma 26B Google DeepMind · 26B · 4B Tool useOpen weights	9.5	67%	262K	Mid-size	UnoRouter
66	Gemma 4 26B IT Chimerax Google DeepMind · 26B · 4B VisionTool useOpen weights	—	—	262K	Mid-size	UnoRouter
67	Gemma 4 26B IT Darksoul Google DeepMind · 26B · 4B VisionTool useOpen weights	—	—	262K	Mid-size	UnoRouter
68	Gemma 4 26B IT Luminous Google DeepMind · 26B · 4B VisionTool useOpen weights	—	—	262K	Mid-size	UnoRouter
69	Gemma 4 26B IT Meromero Google DeepMind · 26B · 4B VisionTool useOpen weights	—	—	262K	Mid-size	UnoRouter
70	Gemma 4 26B IT Moonlight Google DeepMind · 26B · 4B VisionTool useOpen weights	—	—	262K	Mid-size	UnoRouter
71	Qwen SEA-LION V4.5 27B Alibaba Cloud · 27B Tool useOpen weights	—	—	262K	Mid-size	UnoRouter
72	Qwen 3.5 27B Derestricted Alibaba Cloud · 27B ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	—	—	262K	Mid-size	UnoRouter
73	LFM2.5-2.6B Liquid AI · 2.6B Open weights	8.4	56%	128K	Small	OpenRouter, UnoRouter
74	Llama 3.2 11B Vision Meta · 11B VisionTool useOpen weights	5.4	22%	131K	Mid-size	Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter
75	Llama 3.1 8B Meta · 8B Open weights	6.9	26%	128K	Small	Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
76	Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano NVIDIA · 30B · 3B ReasoningTool useOpen weights	8.9	76%	262K	Mid-size	Together AI
77	DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B DeepSeek · 32B ReasoningTool useOpen weights	8.4	62%	80K	Mid-size	Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
78	Qwen3 4B Alibaba Cloud · 4B ReasoningOpen weights	8.8	67%	262K	Small	Together AI
79	Llama 3.3 70B Meta · 70B Tool useOpen weights	7.7	50%	131K	Frontier	Together AI, UnoRouter
80	Mixtral 8x7b Instruct V01 Mistral AI · 46.7B · 12.9B Tool useOpen weights	—	—	16K	Mid-size	Together AI
81	Cogito V1 Preview Qwen 32B Alibaba Cloud · 32B Tool useOpen weights	—	—	131K	Mid-size	Together AI
82	Cogito V1 Preview Qwen 14B Alibaba Cloud · 14B Tool useOpen weights	—	—	131K	Mid-size	Together AI
83	Qwen2.5 14B Alibaba Cloud · 14B Tool useOpen weights	—	—	131K	Mid-size	Together AI
84	Medgemma 27B Text Google DeepMind · 27B Tool useOpen weights	—	—	131K	Mid-size	Together AI
85	DeepSeek Ocr 2 DeepSeek Tool useOpen weights	—	—	8K	Mid-size	Together AI
86	Gemma SEA-LION V4 27B Google DeepMind · 27B Tool useOpen weights	—	—	128K	Mid-size	Cloudflare Workers AI
87	Mistral Small 3.1 24B Mistral AI · 24B Tool useOpen weights	—	—	128K	Mid-size	Cloudflare Workers AI
88	Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4b NVIDIA ReasoningTool useOpen weights	—	—	—	Mid-size	NVIDIA Build
89	GLM 4.5 Flash Z.ai (Zhipu AI) ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	—	—	131K	Mid-size	UnoRouter
90	GLM 4 6v Flash Z.ai (Zhipu AI) ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	—	—	128K	Mid-size	UnoRouter
91	Qwen SEA-LION V4 32B Alibaba Cloud · 32B Tool useOpen weights	—	—	33K	Mid-size	UnoRouter
92	Qwen3 Alibaba Cloud ReasoningTool useOpen weights	—	—	25K	Mid-size	UnoRouter
93	Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B NVIDIA · 49B Tool useOpen weights	8.9	64%	16K	Mid-size	Together AI
94	Gemma 4 E4b Google DeepMind VisionOpen weights	8.9	58%	131K	Small	Together AI
95	Devstral Small Mistral AI CodingTool useOpen weights	8.7	43%	131K	Mid-size	Together AI
96	Magistral Small Mistral AI ReasoningTool useOpen weights	8.6	66%	41K	Mid-size	Together AI
97	Qwen3 32B Alibaba Cloud · 32B ReasoningTool useOpen weights	8.6	67%	41K	Mid-size	Together AI
98	Mistral Small Mistral AI · 24B Tool useOpen weights	5.8	38%	262K	Mid-size	Mistral AI, UnoRouter
99	Qwen3 14B Alibaba Cloud · 14B ReasoningTool useOpen weights	8.2	60%	2K	Mid-size	Together AI
100	Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Alibaba Cloud · 32B CodingTool useOpen weights	6.7	42%	33K	Mid-size	Cloudflare Workers AI, UnoRouter
101	Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI · 24B Tool useOpen weights	8.2	51%	128K	Mid-size	UnoRouter
102	Llama 3.2 90B Vision Meta · 90B VisionTool useOpen weights	6.4	43%	16K	Frontier	Together AI, NVIDIA Build
103	Qwen 3.5 2B Alibaba Cloud · 2B ReasoningCodingOpen weights	6.9	46%	262K	Small	Together AI
104	DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B DeepSeek · 70B · New ReasoningTool useOpen weights	7.9	40%	131K	Frontier	UnoRouter
105	Gemma 4 E2b Google DeepMind VisionOpen weights	7.8	43%	131K	Small	Together AI
106	Qwen2.5 72B Alibaba Cloud · 72B Tool useOpen weights	7.7	49%	131K	Frontier	Together AI
107	GLM 4 5v Z.ai (Zhipu AI) ReasoningCodingTool useOpen weights	7.6	68%	66K	Frontier	Together AI
108	Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B NVIDIA · 253B Tool useOpen weights	7.5	73%	128K	Frontier	NVIDIA Build
109	Llama 3.1 405B Meta · 405B Tool useOpen weights	7.3	52%	131K	Frontier	Together AI
110	Qwen3 8B Alibaba Cloud · 8B ReasoningOpen weights	7.3	59%	41K	Small	Together AI
111	Qwen2.5 32B Alibaba Cloud · 32B Tool useOpen weights	6.9	47%	131K	Mid-size	Together AI
112	Llama 3.1 70B Meta · 70B Tool useOpen weights	6.6	41%	16K	Frontier	Together AI
113	Gemma 3 4B Google DeepMind · 4B VisionOpen weights	4.8	29%	66K	Small	Together AI, NVIDIA Build
114	Llama 3.2 1B Meta · 1B Open weights	4.8	20%	131K	Small	Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI
115	Llama 3.2 3B Meta · 3B Open weights	5.7	26%	80K	Small	Cloudflare Workers AI
116	Molmo 7B D 0924 7B Open weights	5.6	24%	4K	Small	Together AI
117	Sarvam M Open weights	5.3	42%	33K	Small	Together AI
118	Qwen 3.1 7B Alibaba Cloud · 1.7B ReasoningOpen weights	5.2	36%	41K	Small	Together AI
119	Gemma 3 270M Google DeepMind · 270M Open weights	5.1	22%	33K	Small	Together AI
120	Granite 4.0 Micro IBM Open weights	5.1	34%	131K	Small	UnoRouter
121	DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B DeepSeek · 7B ReasoningOpen weights	—	—	131K	Small	Together AI
122	Cogito V1 Preview Llama 8B Meta · 8B Open weights	—	—	131K	Small	Together AI
123	Qwen2.5 3B Alibaba Cloud · 3B Open weights	—	—	33K	Small	Together AI
124	Qwen2.5 1 5B Alibaba Cloud · 1.5B Open weights	—	—	131K	Small	Together AI
125	Qwen2.5 7B Alibaba Cloud · 7B Open weights	—	—	131K	Small	Together AI
126	Meta Llama 3.1 8B Meta · 8B Open weights	—	—	131K	Small	Together AI
127	Granite 4.0 H Micro IBM Open weights	—	—	131K	Small	Cloudflare Workers AI
128	Gemma 7B Google DeepMind · 7B Open weights	—	—	4K	Small	Cloudflare Workers AI
129	Mistral Nemo Minitron 8B 8K Mistral AI · 8B Open weights	—	—	8K	Small	NVIDIA Build
130	Qwen2.5 VL 7B Alibaba Cloud · 7B VisionOpen weights	—	—	33K	Small	UnoRouter
131	Gemma 3 27B Google DeepMind · 27B VisionTool useOpen weights	4.9	43%	66K	Mid-size	Together AI
132	Gemma 3 1B Google DeepMind · 1B Open weights	4.8	24%	33K	Small	Together AI
133	Qwen 3.0 6B Alibaba Cloud · 600M Open weights	4.8	23%	41K	Small	Together AI
134	Gemma 3 12B Google DeepMind · 12B VisionTool useOpen weights	3.8	35%	128K	Mid-size	NVIDIA Build
135	Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety NVIDIA · Moderation Open weights	—	—	128K	Mid-size	OpenRouter
136	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?

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

Where can I use GLM 5.3 Flash for free?

GLM 5.3 Flash is free at OrcaRouter, NVIDIA Build, UnoRouter, OpenCode Zen. Each provider is OpenAI-compatible — just switch the base URL and key.

What are the limits of free access?

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