Models / Best of /open-source
Updated October 2026 · ranked from live data

Best open-weight models

Fully open weights (no restricted custom licenses), ranked by the everyday rating, then recency. Right now the top pick is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (4/5 everyday (Arena Text (overall), 21 of 168 via Max)). Every row links to full specs, hardware verdicts and provider pricing.

1DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek4/5 everyday (Arena Text (overall), 21 of 168 via Max)763B$0.12 / $0.40per 1M · via DekaLLM2GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai4/5 everyday (Arena Text (overall), 26 of 168)321B$0.035 / $0.50per 1M · via Relace3GLM 5.2Z.ai4/5 everyday (Arena Text (overall), 23 of 168 via Max)753B$0.46 / $0.91per 1M · via Reka4MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi4/5 everyday (Arena Text (overall), 31 of 168)1T$0.43 / $0.87per 1M · via OpenRouter5DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek4/5 everyday (Arena Text (overall), 36 of 168)1.6T / 37B$0.78 / $1.57per 1M · via OpenRouter6GLM 5.1Z.ai4/5 everyday (Arena Text (overall), 33 of 168)754B$0.96 / $3.03per 1M · via OpenRouter7Hy3Tencent3.5/5 everyday (Arena Text (overall), 41 of 168)299B$0.13 / $0.53per 1M · via OpenRouter8Gemma 4 31BGoogle3.5/5 everyday (Arena Text (overall), 48 of 168)31.3B$0.10 / $0.33per 1M · via DekaLLM9GLM 5Z.ai3.5/5 everyday (Arena Text (overall), 40 of 168)754B$0.60 / $1.92per 1M · via OpenRouter10Muse Glimmer 30BMeta3/5 everyday (Arena Text (overall), 75 of 168)29.8B$0.30 / $1.10per 1M · via Phala
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