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This week8 models

Ling 3.2 Flash

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Ling 3.2 Flash is a hybrid reasoning model from inclusionAI that accepts text and image input, with a 1M-token context window and up to 200 images per request. Thinking can...

1 variantFree

Encoder V1

Meta🇺🇸Frontier

Embeddingopen

MetaEncoder v1 produces embeddings for images, video, documents and text that suit search, clustering and comparison. Its decide function also answers closed-set questions about a state with probabilities.

Gemini 4 Hydrogen

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Gemini 4 Hydrogen is a Google DeepMind model built for fast execution in agentic workflows and everyday coding. The announcement cites a score of 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (Argon: 50) and a price of $1.50 per million input tokens.

Gemini 4 Carbon

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Gemini 4 Carbon is Google's strongest model for multi-step coding, debugging and open-ended scientific research, using more tokens than Argon to reason and verify. API pricing is introductory at $2 per million input and $10 per million output tokens.

Qianfan: ERNIE-5.5-Flash

Baidu🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningAPI

ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview is the latest foundation model in the ERNIE family, with comprehensive improvements in coding, agentic capabilities, knowledge work, and deep research. It has 280 billion total...

1 variantPreview

Qianfan: ERNIE-Light-DT-1.0

Baidu🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningAPI

ERNIE-Light-DT-1.0 is based on open-source GLM models and includes research findings from Baidu Search's Lightning large model. It features Baidu Sparse Attention (BSA), a unique sparse attention mechanism developed by...

Muse Ember

Meta🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Muse Ember is the smallest and most efficient model from Meta that’s designed for complex reasoning execution and the work agents repeat all day: tool calls, coding agent subtasks, routing,...

ZONOS3-Mini

Zyphra🇺🇸Major lab

Audioopen

Compact open-weights text-to-speech model with about 100M active parameters. It clones voices from an audio sample, lets you design voices by age, accent and vocal texture, and runs in real time on phones, laptops and in the browser.

1 variantHF

Last week10 models

Claude Fable 5.2

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 is reported to rank first on Artificial Analysis and is available through the API at 8 dollars per million input tokens and 40 dollars per million output tokens. Its highest reasoning level, max, failed to return an image in the author's SVG test.

Cola2

ByteDance Seed🇨🇳Major lab

Textopen

Cola2 is a base text generation model that compresses text into semantic spans, generates continuous latents with a diffusion transformer, and decodes them into tokens. The model card reports a 60.10 average over eight tasks after training on 346.03B source tokens.

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionVideoAPI

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is Google's native multimodal video generation and editing model, the successor to Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash. It generates clips up to 15 seconds long with native...

Images 2.6

OpenAI🇺🇸Frontier

Image

Images 2.6 brings faster image generation, GIF creation, more precise editing, and new API controls across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionVideoAPI

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash is Google's native multimodal video generation and editing model, the generally available successor to Gemini Omni Flash Preview. It is suited for text-to-video, image-to-video, first and...

Inkling 2 Small

Thinking Machines🇺🇸Major lab

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Multimodal model that accepts text and image input and returns text. The model card positions it for agentic and tool-use systems, coding assistants and RAG. Open weights allow fine-tuning and integration into third-party products.

2 variantsFreeMXFP8

LongCat-2.5

Meituan LongCat🇨🇳Major lab

TextVisionopen

LongCat-2.5 is a native multimodal MoE model with 1.6 trillion total parameters and about 48 billion active per token, built for long-horizon agentic work. It pairs visual understanding with agentic coding for codebase development, full-project builds and 3D tasks.

1 variantW4A4

MiniMax-H3-Image

MiniMax🇨🇳Major lab

Imageopen

Open-weights MiniMax model that generates images from text and edits up to 16 reference images in one checkpoint. According to the model card, it outputs images of about 16 megapixels without an upscaler, using 6 sampling steps.

Crouton Alpha

◌ Stealth

Stealth🌐Stealth

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Crouton Alpha is a lightweight model built for scalable coding, agentic, and multimodal workflows. It's ideal for executing agentic sub-tasks, tool use, and document analysis in high-volume, repeated work.

1 variantAlpha

Week of October 26, 20265 models

Mage-VL-Cowork

Microsoft🇺🇸Major lab

TextVisionopen

Mage-VL-Cowork A Full Training Recipe to Learn Hybrid Computer Use from Evolved Harnesses

GPT-6.1 Terra

OpenAI🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

The supplied sources contain no information about GPT-6.1 Terra. The announcement covers Kimi K3.1 Pro and mentions GPT-6.1 Sol only as a price comparison, so no capabilities or use cases can be derived.

Same release

Unlimited-OCR-2

Baidu🇨🇳Major lab

TextVisionopen

Baidu vision-language model for OCR and parsing of very long documents. Its SR-SWA attention keeps per-step decoding latency and memory nearly constant regardless of document length, according to the model card.

Kanana 2 V Decide

Kakao🇰🇷Major lab

Embeddingopen

Kakao's decision model answers choice, yes/no and scale questions about text, JSON, chat histories or images, returning a probability for each answer without generating text. It scores 72.50 on Kakao's in-house Korean decision bench.

1 variant3B 2611

Week of October 19, 202611 models

Kimi K3.1 Pro

Moonshot AI🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Open-weight, natively multimodal MoE model with 2.8T total and 104B active parameters, aimed at agentic tasks such as coding, 3D creation and financial research. Artificial Analysis scores it 55 against 58 for Claude Opus 5.5.

LFM3

Liquid AI🇺🇸Major lab

TextReasoningopenAPI

5-bit MLX build of LFM3-1.7B for Apple Silicon, run through mlx-vlm 0.7.11 or later. Optional thinking mode via a flag, with 12 listed languages. Loading in mlx-lm is still pending upstream.

13 variants1.7B MLX 5BIT1.7B MLX 4BIT1.7B MLX 6BIT1.7B MLX 8BIT1.7B MLX BF16

MiniCPM-OCR-Jev

OpenBMB🇨🇳Research

TextVisionopen

MiniCPM-OCR Jev is a 2B multimodal model that scores OCR candidates for text, formula, and table regions and returns a quality score from 0 to 1. The sources describe it as a scorer of OCR output rather than a plain text recognizer, and they give no benchmark results.

3 variantsGGUFGPTQAWQ

WeVisOne-VL

Tencent🇨🇳Major lab

TextVisionopen

WeVisOne-VL is a vision-language model built on Qwen3-VL that unifies open-vocabulary detection, referring localization, counting, pointing, OCR, referring segmentation and alpha matting in one model. The release is intended for research in visual grounding and image perception.

2 variants4B2B

Hy-SimulMT

Tencent🇨🇳Major lab

Textopen

Hy-SimulMT is a real-time simultaneous translation model for Chinese and English speech. It translates audio while the speaker is still talking and can output speech with voice cloning when a TTS service is configured.

6 variants30B A3B INTERLEAVE GGUF30B A3B INTERLEAVE FP830B A3B INTERLEAVE30B A3B GGUF30B A3B FP8

Ling-3.0-tiny-UBTree

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

Textopen

Ling3-Tiny-UBTree-B16 is a UBTree speculative-decoding draft model for inclusionAI/Ling-3.0-tiny. It combines a five-layer DFlash backbone with a learned bigram selector to propose multiple candidate continuations for target-model verification.

LFM3-Omni

Liquid AI🇺🇸Major lab

TextVisionopen

LFM3-Omni-2B is Liquid AI's first omni-modal model in the LFM3 family: a single end-to-end model that understands text, images, video and audio, and answers in text and speech. It is built for on-device use: one model replaces a separate ASR model, vision-language model, LLM and TTS model.

6 variants2B GGUF2B2B MLX 4BIT2B MLX 8BIT2B MLX BF16

ERNIE-5.5-Flash

Baidu🇨🇳Major lab

Textopen

ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base is a sparse MoE language model with 280B total and 14B activated parameters, pre-trained on 33.5T tokens. It is the checkpoint before mid- and post-training and serves as a starting point for domain adaptation, instruction tuning and reinforcement learning research.

2 variantsBaseBase BF16

MiniCPM-OCR-1.0

OpenBMB🇨🇳Research

TextVisionopen

OCR model with 1.3B parameters for documents such as text, tables, formulas and charts. The model card reports 93.68 on Real5-OmniDocBench and 54.7 on OCRBench v2.

3 variantsGPTQAWQGGUF

LFM3-VL

Liquid AI🇺🇸Major lab

TextVisionopen

LFM3-VL-2B is a vision-language model for on-device visual understanding. It takes text, images, and video as input, and combines the LFM3 language model with a new in-house vision encoder.

10 variants2B MLX 5BIT2B MLX 6BIT2B Onnx2B NVFP42B FP8

Cosmos3-H-Dreams

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

Videoopen

Cosmos3-H-Dreams is a real-time, action-conditioned surgical world model for the CMR Surgical Versius robotic system. It is fine-tuned on CMR Surgical Versius clinical cholecystectomy data and distilled into a causal, few-step student for interactive, streaming video generation.

Week of October 12, 202615 models

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

MiniMax🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Native multimodal mixture-of-experts model for coding, agentic workflows, computer use, and cybersecurity. It accepts text, image, and video input with up to 1M tokens of context and returns text. The vendor reports 76.2 on BankerToolBench and 82.2 on CyberGym.

1 variantFree

Nemotron-Labs-Dory1.0

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

Textopen

NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-Dory1.0-4B-MXFP8 is a looped (latent-recurrent) large language model (LLM) trained by NVIDIA. The model employs a normalized-GPT architecture with interleaved hybrid sliding window attention (SWA) and full attention layers.

4 variants4B NVFP44B MXFP84B BF164B GGUF

Mercury 3

Inception🇺🇸Major lab

TextReasoningAPI

Mercury 3 is a diffusion-based language model from Inception, and the lab's most capable model to date. It is suited for agentic workflows and real-time applications where latency compounds, such...

Muse Spark Open

Meta🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Meta coding model for agentic workflows with 816B total and 42B active MoE parameters, a 1M token context window, and text, image, video and audio input. NVFP4 checkpoints are offered for download on Hugging Face.

Moondream 3

Moondream🇺🇸Major lab

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Moondream 3 Preview is a vision-language model from Moondream with 9B total parameters and 2B active (mixture-of-experts). It handles visual question answering, captioning, OCR, and visual reasoning over images, with...

1 variantPreview

Hy-Memory

Tencent🇨🇳Major lab

Textopen

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B is a compact long-term-memory writer model (~3B active parameters) developed by Tencent Hunyuan to execute the write path inside external memory frameworks.

3 variants30B A3B30B A3B FP830B A3B GGUF

Timestral

Mistral AI🇫🇷Frontier

Otheropen

Timestral-123M is a time series foundation model for zero-shot forecasting. It supports univariate and multivariate inputs with past-only and known-future covariates and outputs 21 quantiles. The model card reports MASE 0.659 and CRPS 0.448 on GIFT-Eval, and an SQL skill score of 50.18 on fev-bench.

4 variants123M28M5M209M

FLUX 3 Image Klein Comfy

Black Forest Labs🇩🇪Major lab

Imageopen

No description yet — the model card or announcement hasn't been summarised.

Granite Switch 4.1

IBM🇺🇸Major lab

TextOtheropen

Model Summary: Granite Switch 4.1 8B is a modular LLM that composes a base model, multiple adapters and an encoder together so that a single hosted endpoint can move between natural-language responses, general and specialized decisions, and speech-to-text.

4 variants8B30B8B GGUF30B GGUF

Ming-3.0-asr-tiny

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

Audioopen

A compact speech recognition model for Chinese and English that can use hotwords or preceding dialogue to recognize domain-specific terms. The modelcard also reports evaluation on 15 regional dialect test sets, including Cantonese, Minnan and Shanghainese.

Ling-3.0-flash-UBTree

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

Textopen

Ling3-Flash-UBTree-B16 is a UBTree speculative-decoding draft model for inclusionAI/Ling-3.0-flash. It combines a five-layer DFlash backbone with a learned bigram selector to propose multiple candidate continuations for target-model verification.

Gemini 4 Argon

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Gemini 4 Argon produces strong SVG illustrations and a Blender model, according to Simon Willison's hands-on review. Launch pricing is 2 USD per million input and 10 USD per million output tokens, set to double on December 1.

FLUX 3 Image Klein

Black Forest Labs🇩🇪Major lab

Imageopen

No description yet — the model card or announcement hasn't been summarised.

1 variantBase

Apriel-Voice

ServiceNow🇺🇸Major lab

TextVisionAudioopen

Apriel Voice 27B Preview turns spoken requests into text responses and tool calls on a shared Gemma 4 backbone. Speech synthesis comes from an external component, and turn-taking is handled by the application.

1 variant27B Preview

Muse Wonder

Meta🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Meta announces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, which it calls its most capable models for personal and professional agentic tasks such as insurance claims, leases, and building apps. Muse Wonder is available via the Meta Model API, Muse Wonder Full only to Muse Code subscribers.

Week of October 5, 202613 models

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

NVFP4-quantized vision-language model for reasoning, coding, tool use, and document and video understanding, distilled from its BF16 version. The model card reports GPQA-Diamond and HLE scores close to the BF16 release.

5 variantsFree120B A12B NVFP4120B A12B BF16120B A12B Base BF16120B A12B NVFP4 Lilicorr

Micro-World-2

AMD🇺🇸Major lab

Otheropen

Micro-World 2.0 generates 352×640 video from a first frame, a text prompt and keyboard/mouse actions. The distilled student denoises each chunk in 4 steps, and the Wan2.2-TI2V-5B base weights must be downloaded separately.

Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

Imageopen

Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo is an accelerated checkpoint of Qwen-Image-2.1 for text-to-image generation and image editing with 8 denoising steps. It uses the same 7B visual generation architecture and loads directly with QwenImage21Pipeline in Diffusers.

Youtu-Parsing-Omni

Tencent🇨🇳Major lab

TextVisionopen

Youtu-Parsing-Omni turns document pages, images, charts, geometry figures, audio and video into one structured JSON output, and the task prompt selects the parsing type. The model card reports 96.96 Overall on OmniDocBench v1.6.

Voxtral-Mini

Mistral AI🇫🇷Frontier

Audioopen

Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime Arabic is a streaming speech-to-text model for Arabic dialects and Modern Standard Arabic. It is designed to handle challenging real-world audio and code-switching, where speakers alternate between languages within the same conversation.

1 variant4B Realtime Arabic

Step 5

StepFun🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningVisionOtheropenAPI

Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters). It performs strongly in software engineering and professional...

2 variantsPreviewPreview NVFP4

Claude Haiku 5.5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Fast, low-cost model with reasoning effort levels from low to max that cannot be turned off. It costs the same as GPT-6 Luna up to 100,000 tokens, and the price rises above that.

Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

Audioopen

Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is an open-weight, offline speech and audio model for transcription in 40 languages, with support for recordings up to one hour and a 65,536-token context.

3 variants30B A4B30B A4B NVFP430B A4B FP8

Nano Banana 2.1

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionImageAPI

Nano Banana 2.1 (Gemini Nano Banana 2.1) is Google's image generation and editing model on the Flash tier, succeeding Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro. It improves product recontextualization,...

⧉ 66K$1.50 / $7.50OR

MiniCPM-V-4.7

OpenBMB🇨🇳Research

TextVisionopen

MiniCPM-V 4.7 is the latest model in the MiniCPM-V series, available in a 35B-A3B variant, with 35B-A3B being the first MoE model in the MiniCPM-V series.

15 variants35B A3B INT435B A3B AWQ35B A3B GPTQ35B A3B FP835B A3B Dspark

Nemotron-3.5-Bolt

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

TextVisionopen

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB is a vision-language model (VLM) designed to run everyday agentic tasks locally, using a native 2-bit quantization to fit in 24GB of memory and run alongside other applications. It optimizes intelligence and speed per GB.

8 variants74B A9B 24GB74B A9B 24GB GGUF74B A9B 24GB Lilicorr74B A9B 24GB Lilicorr GGUF74B A9B BF16

D1 Omni

Liquid AI🇺🇸Major lab

TextVisionAudioopen

d1-omni-600M is a 600M parameter decision model built on LFM2.5-Encoder-350M. You give it a state (text or JSON, with images or a voice clip) and a set of named questions.

9 variants600M GGUF600M600M MLX 8BIT600M MLX FP162B Onnx

D1

Liquid AI🇺🇸Major lab

TextVisionopen

d1-3B is a 3B parameter decision model built on LFM2.5-VL-3B. You give it a state (text, JSON, images, or a mix) and a set of questions.

12 variants3B GGUF3B3B W8A83B MLX FP163B MLX 4BIT

Week of September 28, 20268 models

DiarizationLM-Gemma-4-v1

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

TextVisionopen

DiarizationLM is a Large Language Model framework designed to post-process, correct, and optimize automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaker diarization outputs.

1 variantE4B

Ling 3.1 Flash

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningopenAPI

Ling-3.1-flash-1019 is an upgraded Ling-3.1-flash with 560B total and 25B active parameters, aimed at reasoning and agentic workflows. The model card reports the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index rising from 41 to 44.

2 variants1019Base

ALoDLM

Amazon🇺🇸Major lab

Textopen

ALoDLM-1.7B is a diffusion language model for text and code. It repeatedly applies shared transformer layers and allocates computation adaptively across token positions. The model card limits it to noncommercial research on math, code and inference-time compute, and reports 77.7 on ARC-Challenge.

2 variants1.7B8B

Mistral Large 4

Mistral AI🇫🇷Frontier

TextVisionOtheropenAPI

Mistral Large 4 is a natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with configurable reasoning and native function calling, aimed at coding agents and cybersecurity work. The NVFP4 variant reportedly matches FP8 behavior with a smaller memory footprint.

2 variants1T A52B NVFP41T A52B

Encoder

Meta🇺🇸Frontier

Embeddingopen

No description yet — the model card or announcement hasn't been summarised.

GPT-6.1 Sol Pro

OpenAI🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

GPT-6.1 Sol Pro is the same underlying model as GPT-6.1 Sol, served with reasoning.mode set to pro for higher-quality responses on complex tasks. Cost note: pro mode spends far more...

1 variantBatch
Same release

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

The source is a release note for the llm-anthropic 0.30 plugin that lists Claude Sonnet 5.5 as supported. The sources say nothing about the model's capabilities or intended uses.

Week of September 21, 202624 models

MiMo-V2.6-Flash-MOPD

Xiaomi MiMo🇨🇳Major lab

Textopen

Flash variant of MiMo-V2.6 with an MOPD upgrade that distills several domain-specialized teachers into one model and aims to reduce repeated tool calls in agent workflows. Sparse MoE with 309B total and 15B active parameters, accepting text, image, video and audio.

Same release

Pplx Embed V2 Context

Perplexity🇺🇸Major lab

Embeddingopen

pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview is a contextual embedding model for document chunks in RAG systems. A document is passed as a list of chunks; the chunks are encoded together, so each chunk's embedding reflects its surrounding context, and one embedding is returned per chunk.

3 variants9B Preview9B0.6B

Gemini 3.8 Live

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

Text

Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar pairs live speech dialogue with near real-time video generation, so an agent can listen, see, and speak through a visual persona. Tool calls run in the background while the conversation continues.

GLM 5.3 Prime

Z.ai (Zhipu)🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningAPI

GLM-5.3-Prime is the high-speed variant of Z.ai's GLM-5.3, inheriting its full capabilities while delivering 1.5–2× the output throughput through inference acceleration. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token...

Qwen3.8 Max Prime

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

The provided source covers Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a different model from the Max Prime record, so it cannot describe Max Prime's capabilities.

Aion 3.5 Mini

AionLabs🇮🇱Major lab

TextReasoningAPI

Aion 3.5 Mini is a multi-model roleplaying and storytelling system from AionLabs, built on the GLM family of models. It is the smaller, lower-cost sibling of Aion 3.5 and uses...

Same release
⧉ 262K$0.7 / $1.40OR

Solar Mini 4

Upstage🇰🇷Major lab

TextReasoningAPI

Solar 4 is a model family by Upstage. The Pro variant supports a context window of 512K tokens and is available via OpenRouter under the ID upstage/solar-pro4.

⧉ 524K$0.05 / $0.2OR

NV-Reason-CT Open 3D CT VLM

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

TextVisionopen

NV-Reason-CT is a vision language model for 3D chest and abdominal CT that generates structured reports with step-by-step reasoning and answers follow-up questions. It is an open research foundation for post-training, not a cleared clinical product.

Space Bunny Alpha

◌ Stealth

Stealth🌐Stealth

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Space Bunny Alpha is an anonymous large model with blazing-fast inference, strong coding capabilities and native multimodal input support. It delivers adjustable reasoning effort, and a 1M-token context window.

1 variantAlpha

GPT-6 Luna Pro

OpenAI🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

GPT-6 Luna Pro is the same underlying model as GPT-6 Luna, served with reasoning.mode set to pro for higher-quality responses on complex tasks. Learn more in OpenAI's docs: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/reasoningreasoning-mode

1 variantBatch
Same release

Claude Opus 5.5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Anthropic's Opus 5.5 costs $4 input and $20 output per million tokens, 20 percent below Opus 5.0, with cache reads 60 percent cheaper. Anthropic says it communicates more clearly and is more token efficient, but a blogger's SVG test at max effort hit the output limit twice.

1 variantBatch

Ming-3.0-tts

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

Audioopen

Speech synthesis model for seven languages that clones a voice from a short reference clip (zero-shot) or designs one from a text description. It also supports style control, inline non-verbal tags and Sichuanese and Cantonese dialect control.

1 variant0.5B

Ming-3.0-tts-tiny

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

Audioopen

Text-to-speech model with zero-shot voice cloning from a short reference clip, voice design from a text description, and inline tags for breath, laughter or cough. It covers seven languages plus Sichuanese and Cantonese. Inference requires the separate GitHub repository.

Grok 4.7

xAI🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

The sources only give Grok 4.7's pricing: 2 USD per million input tokens and 6 USD per million output tokens. They do not describe what the model can do or what it is suited for.

Qwen3.8 Omni Flash

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Multimodal mixture-of-experts model for agentic coding, document processing and tool-driven workflows with long context. Three of four layers use Gated DeltaNet, one layer uses Qwen Sparse Attention for retrieval across the full context.

MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed

Xiaomi MiMo🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningVisionAPI

The sources give no information on this model's capabilities or intended use. The announcement only notes that MiMo v2.6 Flash and Pro were released the day before.

MiMo-V2.6-Flash

Xiaomi MiMo🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL is the efficiency-focused RL checkpoint of the MiMo-V2.6 series, handling text, image, video and audio in one model. According to the model card it was trained on coding, general agent and visual tasks, and supports 1M tokens for long repositories and agent runs.

1 variantRL
Same release

Switchyard

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

TextAPI

Switchyard routes each request among the models you list in models, using a routing decision from NVIDIA's open-source Switchyard library running on OpenRouter's edge. Pass model: nvidia/switchyard plus two or...

⧉ 1M$-1000000.0 / $-1000000.0OR

Week of September 14, 20268 models

GLM 5.3 FlashX

Z.ai (Zhipu)🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

GLM-5.3-FlashX is the high-speed variant of Z.ai's GLM-5.3-Flash, a native multimodal model delivering inference speeds of up to 200 tokens/s. Built on the same hybrid sparse and linear attention architecture...

Ming-Image-0.1-Design

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

Imageopen

Text-to-image model with 6B parameters for UI, infographics, posters and other text-rich designs. It generates complete compositions and can output RGBA images with transparent backgrounds.

Ming-Image-0.1-Design-Layer

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

Otheropen

Decomposes a flattened design image into a requested number of transparent RGBA layers, guided by an input image and a layer plan. The recommended setup is 1024 working resolution, 12 sampling steps, and one CUDA GPU with 80 GiB VRAM.

FrogNano

Microsoft🇺🇸Major lab

Otheropen

FrogNano is a compact 4B coding agent from Microsoft, trained with reinforcement learning on about 1,500 synthetic software engineering tasks. It generates structured tool calls for the Leaf harness to work on repository issues, and its patches still need human review.

1 variant4B 2609

Realtime-Venus

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

TextVisionopen

Realtime-Venus is a 9B audio-visual model for full-duplex voice dialogue. It keeps listening and watching while it speaks, handles interruptions, and can start a response when an event in the video or audio warrants one.

WeVisDoc

Tencent🇨🇳Major lab

Otheropen

WeVisDoc-4B converts page images directly into structured Markdown with LaTeX formulas and HTML tables. The paper reports an Overall score of 95.38 on OmniDocBench v1.6, ahead of the compared end-to-end parsers.

2 variants4B2B

Qwen-Image-2.1

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

Imageopen

Qwen-Image-2.1 combines text-to-image generation and image editing in one model. According to its model card, it outputs transparent RGBA images, accepts up to 10 reference images, and aims to preserve identity for people and products.

2 variantsPE I2iPE T2i

EmbeddingGemma 2

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

Embeddingopen

Open embedding model from Google DeepMind that maps text including code, images, video and audio into one shared 768-dimensional vector space. Designed for on-device use in search, RAG, classification and clustering.

Week of September 7, 20266 models

Fugu Ultra v2

Sakana AI🇯🇵Major lab

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Fugu Ultra v2 is the higher-performance model in Sakana AI's Fugu family. Rather than a single monolithic model, Fugu is a learned multi-agent orchestration system: a language model trained to...

Fugu Max

Sakana AI🇯🇵Major lab

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Fugu Max is the cost-performance model in Sakana AI's Fugu family. Rather than a single monolithic model, Fugu is a learned multi-agent orchestration system: a language model trained to route...

Atria-Dawn

Shanghai AI Lab (InternLM)🇨🇳Research

Otheropen

Agentic instruct model for research, software building, report generation and security analysis in authorized settings. The model card targets tool use and multi-step tasks with failure recovery.

4 variantsPreview Ascend W8A8Preview FP8PreviewFP8

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

DeepSeek🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Multimodal mixture-of-experts model for images and text with up to one million tokens of context. According to the model card, only 8B parameters are active per token during prefill, aimed at input-heavy agentic workloads.

3 variantsBatch10171017

ChatGPT Images 2.5

OpenAI🇺🇸Frontier

Image

ChatGPT Images 2.5 helps turn your ideas, sketches, and reference photos into more personalized, polished images that better reflect your ideas.

Mercury 2.5

Inception🇺🇸Major lab

TextReasoningAPI

Mercury 2.5 is the fastest reasoning LLM, and the latest diffusion LLM (dLLM) from Inception. Instead of generating tokens sequentially, Mercury 2.5 produces and refines multiple tokens in parallel, achieving...

⧉ 260K$0.04 / $0.15OR

Week of August 31, 202616 models

LLaDA-UI

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

TextVisionopen

A multimodal model that reads screenshots at native resolution and outputs normalized coordinates or structured GUI actions for mobile, desktop, and web. It decodes block by block via diffusion instead of token by token.

LLaDA2.2-mini

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

Textopen

Mixture of Experts diffusion language model aimed at agentic work such as tool calling and multi-turn use, with up to 128K tokens of context. It activates 1.4B of its 16B parameters and uses Levenshtein editing with DELETE and INSERT tokens for error correction.

GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's flagship model for demanding end-to-end work. It is suited for advanced analysis, software engineering, deep research, scientific work, and document creation, with particular strengths in long-horizon...

1 variantBatch
Same release

Ling 3.0 Flash VL

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Multimodal model with 124B total parameters and 5.5B active per token. It accepts image and video input and is aimed at agent tasks that involve reading web and software interfaces. The model card reports 42 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1.

3 variantsINT4FP4FP8

Ling 3.0 Flash Sante

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningopenAPI

Ling 3.0 Flash Sante is a health and medicine-focused mixture-of-experts model from InclusionAI, built on Ling 3.0 Flash with 5.1B active parameters out of 124B total. It is designed for...

2 variantsFreeFP8

EVIE

Tencent🇨🇳Major lab

Otheropen

EVIE-8B is a visual document retrieval model that stores 4096-dimensional vectors per token and scores relevance with MaxSim. The model card reports nDCG@10 of 66.75 on ViDoRe V3 and says the model serves as teacher for EVIE 4.5B.

2 variants8B4.5B

Qwen3.8 Max

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

No source describes Qwen3.8 Max itself. The available announcement covers the separate Qwen3.8 Flash Next model, so the capabilities and intended use of Max remain unverified.

WeatherNext 3

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

Other

WeatherNext 3 is Google DeepMind's AI weather forecasting model. It uses real-time satellite data for hourly updates with higher resolution and more precise precipitation forecasts, and is integrated into Search, Gemini, Maps and Google Cloud.

Muse Spark 1.3

Meta🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor is the cost-efficient contributor tier of Meta’s multimodal reasoning model for experimentation, learning, and early-stage agentic, multi-agent, and coding workflows. It is designed to track information...

1 variantContributor

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar pairs native live dialogue with near real-time video, so the persona listens, sees and speaks with lip-sync. Tool calls run in the background while the conversation continues. Available in Gemini Enterprise.

1 variantBatch

VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming

Microsoft🇺🇸Major lab

Audioopen

Streaming ASR model that transcribes speech as it arrives and attributes each utterance to a speaker (who said what). Users can supply custom hotwords such as names and technical terms, and the card lists ten languages.

2 variants1.5B7B

Tiny Aya En Thinker

Cohere🇨🇦Major lab

Textopen

No description yet — the model card or announcement hasn't been summarised.

Tiny Aya L2 Thinker

Cohere🇨🇦Major lab

Textopen

No description yet — the model card or announcement hasn't been summarised.

Claude Fable 5.1

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Claude Fable 5.1 improves on Claude Fable 5 across the board, with the biggest gains in agentic coding, long-running agentic workflows, and knowledge work: long code refactors, front-end and visual...

1 variantBatch

Jina OCR V1

Jina AI🇩🇪Major lab

TextVisionopen

Jina OCR V1 is a document parsing model built on DeepSeek-OCR that uses FastMTP speculative decoding for faster page transcription. It scores 91.14 on OmniDocBench v1.6 and 83.4 on olmOCR-Bench.

Week of August 24, 20269 models

LLaDA-Image-Turbo

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

Imageopen

A single model for text-to-image generation and instruction-guided image editing, with Chinese and English text rendering. The Turbo variant is a distilled version that the model card says runs in 2 to 4 sampling steps.

1 variantFP8
Same release

Drive-1.0

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

TextVisionopen

Qwen-Drive-1.0 retains the architecture of the pretrained Qwen3.5 vision-language model and integrates 3D perception, visual question answering, and motion planning within a unified framework.

1 variant4B

Hy4

Tencent🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Hy4 preview is a Mixture-of-Experts model aimed at software engineering, office and data analysis, game prototyping and hard research questions. In an internal blind evaluation it came out slightly ahead of GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3.

3 variantsPreviewPreview FP8Preview

Ling 3.0 Flash Fin

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningopenAPI

Ling-3.0-flash-Fin is a finance-tuned mixture-of-experts model for multi-step financial research, source-grounded search, and spreadsheet and valuation work with tool use. The model card reports competitiveness with similarly sized models, with particular strength in source selection and tool-intensive financial tasks.

4 variantsFreeFP4INT4FP8

MiniCPM5

OpenBMB🇨🇳Research

Textopen

MiniCPM5-2B is a dense 2B Transformer for local use on resource-constrained devices. The vendor claims strengths in coding, math, long context, tool use and agentic tasks, but the truncated card gives no figures.

9 variants2B2B Dspark GGUF2B GPTQ2B Dspark2B GGUF

GLM 5.3 Flash

Z.ai (Zhipu)🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series with 320B total and 18B active parameters. The authors say it approaches Claude Opus 4.8 on coding and agentic benchmarks, and it targets efficient long-context serving through a hybrid sparse and linear attention design.

2 variantsBatchBF16

Qwen3.8 Flash

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Multimodal mixture-of-experts model aimed at long-context agentic coding and document workflows, with open weights for the Flash-Next preview. It combines Gated DeltaNet with Qwen Sparse Attention for efficient inference over up to 1M tokens.

1 variantFP8

Nemotron-3-Diarization

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

Otheropen

Open-weight speaker diarization model that determines who spoke when. It supports streaming and offline inference for up to eight speakers, with input buffers as low as 80 ms.

1 variantPreview

Week of August 17, 20264 models

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision

DeepSeek🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Experimental multimodal model in the DeepSeek-V4 family, built on DeepSeek-V4-Flash with added visual modules. The model card reports gains on multimodal agent tasks over V4-Flash-0731, while text agent performance stays comparable.

2 variantsExpExp

AuK-Flash

Tencent🇨🇳Major lab

Audioopen

- [2026/09/09] 🎉 AuK is now open-source. Code and model weights are publicly available.

Same release

GLM 5.3

Z.ai (Zhipu)🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningopenAPI

GLM-5.3 is a text model aimed at complex coding and long-horizon agent tasks, built on the same base model as GLM-5.2. The model card reports a 50% gain over GLM-5.2 on the in-house Z.ai Code Bench and 84.5 on CyberGym.

2 variantsBatchBF16

Week of August 10, 202611 models

North-Small-Translate-1.0

Cohere🇨🇦Major lab

Textopen

No description yet — the model card or announcement hasn't been summarised.

2 variantsW4A16FP8

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Google describes Gemini 3.7 Flash as its most intelligent workhorse model for coding and agents. Vendor-reported results show gains over Gemini 3.6 Flash, for example 65.3% vs 49.0% on DeepSWE v1.1.

1 variantBatch

Cmd

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

Videoopen

Research checkpoints for causal image-to-video generation that produce videos autoregressively in chunks. Variants cover short and long clips plus camera control, built on Cosmos-Predict2.5 2B.

Grok 4.6

xAI🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Grok 4.6 is a model developed by xAI, featuring a context window of 500,000 tokens. It is available in a standard variant.

Seed 2.1 Turbo

ByteDance Seed🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Seed 2.1 Turbo is a multimodal model from ByteDance Seed for coding and long-horizon agent workflows. It is suited for end-to-end software delivery, multi-step task execution, and understanding visual and...

⧉ 262K$0.5 / $2.50OR

Seed-2.0-Code

ByteDance Seed🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningVisionCodeAPI

Seed-2.0 is a model developed by ByteDance Seed, designed for code-related tasks with a large context window.

Namazu

Sakana AI🇯🇵Major lab

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Namazu is a model from Sakana AI with a 256K token context window (262144). No information is available on parameter count, licensing, weight openness, intended use cases, or capability tier.

Solar Pro 4

Upstage🇰🇷Major lab

TextReasoningAPI

Solar 4 is a model family by Upstage. The Pro variant supports a context window of 512K tokens and is available via OpenRouter under the ID upstage/solar-pro4.

⧉ 524K$0.09 / $0.36OR

North-Micro-Vision

Cohere🇨🇦Major lab

TextVisionopen

Compact 2.4B vision-language model that processes images at native resolution and covers visual question answering, captioning, grounding, OCR, charts and documents. Intended for prototyping and task-specific fine-tuning.

1 variantInstruct

Ling-3.0-tiny

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningopenAPI

SingProbe is a lightweight streaming guardrail for Ling-3.0-tiny. It scores query intent, response unsafety and hallucination risk per token from the base model's hidden states, with under 0.5% decode overhead.

7 variantsSingprobeGGUFBaseBase 30TBase Midtrain

LTX-2.5-Pre-Trained

Lightricks🇮🇱Major lab

Videoopen

No description yet — the model card or announcement hasn't been summarised.

Week of August 3, 20267 models

Muse Glimmer

Meta🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

A dense 30B open-weight model from Meta for local agentic work, covering multi-step reasoning, tool use and image understanding. According to the sources it runs fully on a single GPU without cloud access.

5 variants30B30B Executorch Pte30B Assistant30B GGUF30B

Granite 4.2

IBM🇺🇸Major lab

TextReasoningopenAPI

Dense decoder-only language model from IBM for multilingual use, coding, RAG, tool use and structured JSON output, with a built-in thinking mode for extended reasoning. The sources frame it for enterprise use and customization.

19 variants8B30B BF16 MLX8B BF16 MLX3B BF16 MLX8B NVFP4

Music3

MiniMax🇨🇳Major lab

Audioopen

MiniMax Music 3 generates complete songs up to five minutes long from lyrics and a style description, using an 8B global LLM for song structure and a 0.6B local LLM for acoustic detail.

LFM2.5-VL

Liquid AI🇺🇸Major lab

TextVisionopen

LFM2.5-VL-3B is a multimodal variant of LFM2.5, a family of hybrid models designed for on-device deployment. It builds on LFM2-VL-3B with further mid- and post-training.

10 variants3B Dspark GGUF3B Dspark3B GGUF3B3B MLX BF16

Muse Spark 1.2

Meta🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Muse Spark 1.2 contributor tier is a reasoning model from Meta designed for developers who want to start building at an even lower cost. It’s meaningfully cheaper than Muse Spark...

1 variantContributor

Qwen3.8

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Dense 27B vision-language model with native image and video understanding, adjustable thinking depth, and a focus on coding and long-horizon agentic tasks.

7 variants27B27B Free2.4T A95B27B27B FP8

Granite Speech 5.0

IBM🇺🇸Major lab

AudioOtheropen

Model Summary: Granite Speech 5.0 TurboCTC Non-commercial is a compact 470 million parameter English ASR model with very high inference speed that is released for research and noncommercial purposes only. We invite users to refer to granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc for other use cases.

5 variants470M Turboctc Nc470M Turboctc2B2B GGUF2B Onnx

Week of July 27, 20269 models

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

TextReasoningopenAPI

Base checkpoint of the Nemotron 3.5 Lightning family, without SFT, RL or distillation. It is a hybrid MoE model with 30B total and 3B active parameters, intended as a starting point for custom post-trained models.

6 variantsFree30B A3B Base BF1630B A3B NVFP4 Dspark30B A3B NVFP4 Dflash30B A3B NVFP4

LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse

Meituan LongCat🇨🇳Major lab

Textopen

LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse is a non-thinking MoE model with 69B total and about 3B active parameters per token, supporting up to 1M tokens of context. It reports gains over its dense predecessor in agentic coding and tool use, e.g. 68.20 vs 54.40 on SWE-Bench Verified.

NemotronLabs-VoiceChat

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

Otheropen

▶ Hear it first. Natural turn-taking, barge-in and live tool calling.

1 variant11B

K-EXAONE-2.0

LG AI Research🇰🇷Major lab

Textopen

Multilingual 750B parameter model (37B active) for reasoning, agentic workflows and long context. Per its model card it is especially strong on long-context retrieval and safety. It covers ten languages and supports speculative decoding (MTP, DSpark) for faster inference.

4 variants750B A37B Dspark750B A37B NVFP4750B A37B FP8750B A37B

Intern-S2-Mobius

Shanghai AI Lab (InternLM)🇨🇳Research

TextVisionopen

Intern-S2-Mobius separates knowledge storage from reasoning modules, which the model card says yields shorter reasoning traces and higher throughput. The card reports large gains on scientific tasks, but exact scores appear only in figures.

1 variantFP8

UEmbed

Alibaba Tongyi Lab🇨🇳Research

Embeddingopen

UEmbed is a multimodal embedding model on a Qwen3.5 backbone that produces dense and sparse vectors for text, image and video in a single forward pass. It targets retrieval, multimodal search and visual document retrieval.

3 variants9B4B2B

MiniMax-H3

MiniMax🇨🇳Major lab

Videoopen

MiniMax-H3 is an omni-modal system that understands text, images, video and audio and generates videos with native stereo audio up to 2K and 15 seconds. The base stage outputs 768p, and a regeneration stage produces the 2K version.

Qwen3.7 Flash

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Qwen3.7 Flash is a vision-language reasoning model from Alibaba. It is suited for multimodal agents, visual coding, search, and computer interaction, with strengths in object recognition, spatial understanding, and real-world...

Inkling Small

Thinking Machines🇺🇸Major lab

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Inkling-Small is an openly available multimodal model that takes text, image and audio input and outputs text. According to the model card, it targets developers building agentic, tool-use, coding assistant and RAG systems.

2 variantsFreeNVFP4

Week of July 20, 202615 models

Mage-ViT

Microsoft🇺🇸Major lab

Embeddingopen

Mage-ViT is a vision encoder that uses codec signals to keep only motion-salient patches, which makes video processing efficient. This repo ships only the ViT checkpoint without language model training and can serve as an encoder for your own multimodal training.

Mage-VL

Microsoft🇺🇸Major lab

TextVisionopen

Mage-VL is a 4B multimodal model for image and video understanding. It pairs a visual encoder trained from scratch with a Qwen3-4B language backbone. The modelcard reports over 75% fewer visual tokens and up to 3.5x faster inference than uniform frame sampling.

Claude Opus 5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

The source lists only Claude Opus 5's price of $5 per million input and $25 per million output tokens. It does not document Opus 5's capabilities or intended uses, because the article covers Opus 5.5.

1 variantBatch

VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet

Microsoft🇺🇸Major lab

Audioopen

Compressed speech recognition model derived from VibeVoice-ASR for real-time transcription on CPUs without a GPU. The model card reports RTF below 1 from 3 threads at a total size of 1.58 GB.

Apertus-v1.5

Swiss AI Initiative🇨🇭Research

TextVisionopen

No description yet — the model card or announcement hasn't been summarised.

4 variants70B8B70B Base8B Base

Hy-MT2

Tencent🇨🇳Major lab

TextopenAPI

Hy-MT2 is a family of multilingual translation models covering 33 languages that follow translation instructions given in several languages. The 1.8B variant can be compressed to 440 MB with 1.25 bit quantization for on-device use.

4 variants1.8B30B A3B7B30B A3B GGUF

Ling 3.0 Flash

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningopenAPI

SingProbe is an intrinsic streaming guardrail for Ling-3.0-flash that scores query intent, response unsafety and hallucination risk at every generated token. It reuses the base model's hidden states and adds under 0.5% decode overhead.

8 variantsSingprobeGGUFBaseBase 30TBase Midtrain

LTX-2.5

Lightricks🇮🇱Major lab

Videoopen

No description yet — the model card or announcement hasn't been summarised.

1 variantDiffusers

KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev

Kwaipilot (Kuaishou)🇨🇳Major lab

TextCodeopen

Open-weight MoE coding model with 35B total and 3B active parameters, built for agentic coding and text-only use. The model card reports 69.40 on SWE-bench Verified, a vendor figure.

Instella-MoE

AMD🇺🇸Major lab

Textopen

INT4 weight-only quantized (W4A16) SFT variant for CPU inference on AMD EPYC with vLLM and ZenDNN. Only dense and shared-expert layers are quantized, while routed experts stay BF16, so the size drops only from 29.5 to 28.9 GiB.

8 variants16B A3B SFT W4A16 Llmcompressor16B A3B SFT W8A8 Llmcompressor16B A3B Think16B A3B SFT16B A3B Pretrain

Solar-Open2

Upstage🇰🇷Major lab

Textopen

Upstage open-weight MoE model (250B total, 15B active per token) aimed at agentic tasks such as tool calling, document work and coding. The model card reports 70.4 on SWE-Bench Verified, behind MiMo-V2.5 (73.0) and DeepSeek-V4-Flash (73.8).

1 variant250B

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Workhorse model for agents, coding and knowledge work. According to the Artificial Analysis Index it uses 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash. Priced at $1.50 per 1M input and $7.50 per 1M output tokens.

1 variantBatch

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Google's fastest and most cost-effective 3.5-class model, aimed at scaling AI agents. The Artificial Analysis Index reports 350 output tokens per second, and the announcement says it significantly outperforms earlier Flash-Lite generations in agentic workflows.

1 variantBatch

Cosmos-H-Dreams

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

Videoopen

Cosmos-H-Dreams is a real-time, action-conditioned generative surgical world model that lets a human operator or a learned surgical-robotics policy act inside a synthesized surgical scene and observe the interactions live.

Motif-3

Motif Technologies🇰🇷Major lab

Textopen

Motif 3 Base is a pretrained base checkpoint without instruction tuning, intended as a starting point for fine-tuning, continued pretraining and research. The mixture-of-experts model has 314B total parameters, with 13.2B active per token.

3 variantsBaseNVFP4Beta

Week of July 13, 202611 models

Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

Text

Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a lightweight model fine-tuned from 3.5 Flash to find, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities. Google says it outperforms its mainline Flash models on these tasks at lower cost than larger cybersecurity models.

Muse Spark 1.1

Meta🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal reasoning model from Meta, built for agentic tasks. It accepts text, images, video, audio, and PDF documents and returns text, with a 1M-token context...

Shieldstral-1.0

Mistral AI🇫🇷Frontier

Otheropen

Shieldstral is a compact 3B-parameter, policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier. Instead of predicting a fixed set of moderation categories, Shieldstral evaluates content against a safety policy expressed in natural language and returns a single continuous safety score.

1 variant3B

LLaDA2.2-flash

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

Textopen

Agent-oriented diffusion language model with Levenshtein Editing for tool use over a 128K context, multi-turn interaction and error correction. The model card reports 49.28 on SWE-bench Verified and 80.33 on τ²-Bench.

PII-Tracer

Perplexity🇺🇸Major lab

Embeddingopen

PII-Tracer detects personal data in chat conversations. It tags nine PII categories with BIOES labels and adds a conversation-level sensitivity score. The repo ships weights only, so an MLX implementation of the encoder and heads must be provided separately.

2 variantsMLXGGUF

Intern-S2

Shanghai AI Lab (InternLM)🇨🇳Research

TextVisionopen

Multimodal model from Shanghai AI Lab for scientific reasoning and long-horizon agent tasks. According to the model card, it learns directly from raw scientific literature pages and was trained with reinforcement learning across more than 20 scientific domains.

4 variants397B397B FP8Preview 397BPreview 397B FP8

Wan2.2-Animate-2

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

Imageopen

The sources contain no description of the model, only a download pointer. The name and pipeline class suggest animation, but the sources do not confirm it.

3 variants14B Distilled Diffusers14B Diffusers14B

Inkling

Thinking Machines🇺🇸Major lab

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Inkling is a multimodal mixture of experts model that accepts text, image and audio input and returns text. Its model card targets agentic workflows, tool use, coding and chat applications, and it is released with open weights.

2 variantsFreeNVFP4

Hy-Embodied-VLM-1.0

Tencent🇨🇳Major lab

TextVisionopen

Hy-Embodied-VLM-1.0 is a vision-language model for embodied agents with about 3B active parameters out of roughly 30B total, focused on action planning and physical-world understanding. The model card reports first place on 19 of 38 embodied benchmarks.

Hy-Embodied-RxBrain-1.0

Tencent🇨🇳Major lab

TextVisionopen

RxBrain pairs language reasoning with visual imagination: it answers questions about images and video, predicts near-future frames, and plans subgoals together with goal images. Image generation additionally requires the external FLUX VAE.

Ising-Calibration-1.5

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

TextVisionopen

NVIDIA-Ising-Calibration-1.5-31B-BF16 is a dense multimodal vision-language model built on Gemma 4 31B.

2 variants31B NVFP431B BF16

Week of July 6, 202614 models

Wan-Dancer

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

Videoopen

Wan-Dancer generates long, rhythmic dance videos from a reference image and a music track. It plans global keyframes first and then refines locally, using the full track to keep the choreography coherent.

1 variant14B

KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5

Kwaipilot (Kuaishou)🇨🇳Major lab

TextCodeAPI

KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5 is a flagship-level Agentic Coding model that can directly hand over an entire issue or an entire business workflow to it, allowing it to autonomously locate and make...

⧉ 262K$0.74 / $2.96OR

GPT-5.6 Luna Pro

OpenAI🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

According to the announcement, GPT-5.6 Luna Pro belongs to the GPT-5.6 family, which is available in the Kiro coding agent for planning, building and reviewing software. The source gives no Luna-specific capability or benchmark data.

1 variantBatch
Same release

Grok 4.5

xAI🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Grok 4.5 is a model from SpaceXAI with frontier performance on coding, knowledge work, and STEM.

Aion-3.0-Mini

AionLabs🇮🇱Major lab

TextReasoningAPI

Aion-3.0 Mini is a multi-model roleplaying and storytelling system from AionLabs, built on the DeepSeek family of models. It uses a collaborative generation process in which multiple specialized models each...

Same release
⧉ 131K$0.7 / $1.40OR

Cosmos3-Super-Image2Video-4Step

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

Videoopen

Generates a temporally coherent MP4 video from one or more input images and an optional text prompt, aimed at Physical AI uses such as robotics, autonomous driving and smart spaces. It is a 4-step distilled version of Cosmos3-Super-Image2Video.

Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4Step

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

Imageopen

Text-to-image model from NVIDIA, distilled to 4 sampling steps via DMD2 without classifier-free guidance. The modelcard reports up to 25x fewer diffusion evaluations per image than the 50-step base model with CFG.

Nemotron-Labs-Audex

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

Textopen

Compact dense audio-text LLM for audio understanding, speech recognition and translation, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech generation, with thinking and instruct modes. Text abilities are said to stay close to its backbone.

2 variants2B30B A3B

Week of June 29, 202610 models

LongCat 2.0

Meituan LongCat🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningopenAPI

Large MoE language model with 1.6 trillion total parameters, about 48 billion active per token, aimed at coding and agentic tasks with a 1M-token context. The model card says it works with harnesses such as Claude Code.

2 variantsINT8FP8

PAR

ByteDance Seed🇨🇳Major lab

Otheropen

PAR checkpoint list: a 400M model for the main benchmark, a PDB fine-tune, and a 60M model for zero-shot motif scaffolding. The excerpt does not describe the tasks in detail.

Laguna S 2.1

Poolside🇺🇸Major lab

TextReasoningopenAPI

MLX-compatible export of Laguna S 2.1 with NVFP4 4-bit quantization. The supplied sources do not describe its capabilities; the main model card is referenced for details.

6 variantsFreeNVFP4 MLXGGUFINT4NVFP4

Leanstral-1.5

Mistral AI🇫🇷Frontier

Otheropen

Leanstral 1.5 is an open-source code agent model designed for Lean 4, a proof assistant capable of expressing complex mathematical objects such as perfectoid spaces and software specifications like properties of Rust fragments.

1 variant119B A6B

Cosmos3-Edge

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

Otheropen

A 4B-parameter NVIDIA world model that generates video, images, actions and text from text, image, video and action trajectory inputs, aimed at robotics, autonomous vehicles and smart spaces. The sources contain no benchmark results.

Claude Sonnet 5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionAPI

Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most capable Sonnet-class model, with frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work. It supports adaptive thinking with selectable reasoning effort levels (low, medium, high, max,...

1 variantBatch

Nano Banana 2 Lite

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionImageAPI

The source describes Google Pics, an image tool in Google Workspace built on the Nano Banana model. It lists text-prompt image generation, object isolation and text editing inside images, but does not mention the Lite variant.

Nemotron-Parse-2.0

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

TextVisionopen

Turns document images into structured text with layout classes, bounding boxes and reading order. Aimed at OCR, table and chart extraction, and data preparation for RAG pipelines.

Moondream3.1

Moondream🇺🇸Major lab

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Vision language model for captioning, visual question answering, open vocabulary detection and pointing, all returning structured output. It runs locally via Photon on NVIDIA Ampere or newer GPUs and Apple Silicon Macs without an API key.

1 variant9B A2B

Tabfm 1.0.0

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

Otheropen

TabFM is a zero-shot foundation model for classification and regression on tabular data with mixed numerical and categorical columns. Training examples are passed as context in a single forward pass, with no fine-tuning, and the model card reports it outperforming tuned gradient-boosted tree baselines on TabArena.

2 variantsJaxPytorch

Week of June 22, 20264 models

OlmoEarth-v1_2

Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)🇺🇸Research

Embeddingopen

Remote sensing foundation model that processes Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat images and time series. It produces embeddings for downstream tasks such as segmentation and similarity search, and the model card describes fine-tuning for these uses.

1 variantBase

Fugu Ultra

◆ Underrated

Sakana AI🇯🇵Major lab

TextVision

Sakana AI's higher-performance Fugu model — not a monolithic LLM but a learned multi-agent orchestration system that routes requests across multiple models and tools. Multimodal (text+image input), 1M context, $5/$30 per MTok on OpenRouter.

Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

Textopen

Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B is a deployment-optimized large language model developed by NVIDIA, derived from Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B.

3 variants75B A9B FP875B A9B BF1675B A9B NVFP4

AgentWorld

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

Textopen

Qwen-AgentWorld is the first language world model to cover seven agent interaction domains within a single model. It simulates agentic environments via long chain-of-thought reasoning, predicting the next environment state given an agent's action and interaction history.

1 variant35B A3B

Week of June 15, 20269 models

GLM-5.2

◆ Underrated

Z.ai (Zhipu)🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningopenAPI

GLM-5.2 is an open-source model from Z.AI for long-horizon tasks, with a stable 1-million-token context and strong agentic coding. It combines code generation with tool use and supports adjustable thinking-effort levels. It scores 62.1% on SWE-bench Pro, sits close to the frontier on AIME and GPQA-Diamond, and improves markedly over GLM-5.1. The MoE architecture with IndexShare cuts compute per token by a factor of 2.9.

1 variantFP8

Laguna 2.1

Poolside🇺🇸Major lab

TextReasoningopenAPI

Laguna XS 2.1 NVFP4 MLX is a 4-bit MLX build of a mixture-of-experts model with 33B total and 3B active parameters, aimed at agentic coding on local machines. The model card marks this build as experimental and not intended for production use.

12 variantsXSXS FreeXS NVFP4 MLXXS GGUFXS Dflash NVFP4

Unlimited-OCR

Baidu🇨🇳Major lab

TextVisionopen

Baidu's OCR vision-language model parses document images, PDFs and multi-page documents into structured text. The model card positions it as a step beyond DeepSeek-OCR and lists Transformers, vLLM and SGLang for inference.

Nano Banana Pro

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

TextReasoningVisionImageAPI

Nano Banana Pro is a Google DeepMind image model. The announced Google Pics Workspace tool is built on the Nano Banana image model and generates and edits images from text prompts, including isolating objects and editing or translating text inside images.

Transcribe Arabic

Cohere🇨🇦Major lab

Audioopen

No description yet — the model card or announcement hasn't been summarised.

1 variant202607

Gemini 3.1 Flash Image

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

VisionImageAPI

Google's latest Gemini Flash generation with native image input/output. Available on OpenRouter ($0.50/$3 per MTok). Gemini 3.x is a standalone series alongside Gemini 2.5.

FastContext 1.0

◆ Underrated

Microsoft🇺🇸Major lab

Codeopen

Microsoft's specialized code-search model for coding agents — powers the 'Explore' subagent in SWE-FastContext. Not a general-purpose LLM, but relevant for agentic setups.

1 variant4B

North Mini Code 1.0

◆ Underrated

Cohere🇨🇦Major lab

CodeopenAPI

North Mini Code is an open-weight sparse MoE model (30B total, 3B active) specialized for code generation, agentic software engineering, and terminal tasks. It supports tool-use through chat templates and was post-trained with supervised fine-tuning followed by reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards focused on agentic coding.

2 variantsW4A16FP8

MolmoMotion-H3-F30

Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)🇺🇸Research

TextVisionopen

A 4B vision language model that forecasts the 3D trajectories of user-selected 2D points from a short frame history and a language action instruction, covering about two seconds at 15 fps. It is intended for motion forecasting research and as a base for finetuning, such as robot pick and place.

1 variant4B

Week of June 8, 202614 models

Kimi K3

Moonshot AI🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningVisionopenAPI

Kimi K3 is an open-weight multimodal model with 2.8T total parameters (104B active) and a 1M token context window, built for long-horizon coding and agentic knowledge work. Moonshot claims about 2.5x better scaling efficiency than Kimi K2.

1 variantBatch

Kimi K2.7 Code

Moonshot AI🇨🇳Frontier

ReasoningCodeopenAPI

Kimi K2.7 Code is Moonshot AI's coding-specialised agentic model. It accepts image input and tool calls and can handle complex software-engineering workflows end to end. It scores 62.0 on Kimi Code Bench v2 and uses about 30% fewer thinking tokens than its predecessor K2.6. It trails GPT-5.5 slightly on coding benchmarks but beats Claude Opus 4.8 on MCP Mark Verified with 81.1.

VISTA

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

TextVisionopen

VISTA-9B is a vision-language model for GUI grounding that maps a screenshot and an instruction to a click coordinate in a 0-1000 frame. The model card reports 68.1 on OSWorld-G, against 63.1 for its Qwen3.5-9B base model.

2 variants9B4B

LFM2.5-Encoder

Liquid AI🇺🇸Major lab

TextEmbeddingopen

LFM2.5-Encoder is a family of multilingual bidirectional encoders built on the LFM2 architecture, available in two sizes:

7 variants230M350M350M Prompt Router350M Policy Linter350M Diffusion

MobileMoE-S

Meta🇺🇸Frontier

Textopen

No description yet — the model card or announcement hasn't been summarised.

2 variantsBaseSFT

ZONOS2

Zyphra🇺🇸Major lab

Audioopen

GGUF weights for ZONOS2, a text-to-speech model with voice cloning that runs as a native C++ pipeline without Python or PyTorch. Q8_0 is the recommended default, Q4_K the smallest option when VRAM is tight.

1 variantGGUF

EvoQuality

ByteDance Seed🇨🇳Major lab

TextVisionopen

EvoQuality scores image quality without a reference image and without human quality labels. It compares image pairs and rates single images from 1 to 5. The model card reports a weighted average PLCC of 0.770 and SRCC of 0.726 across benchmarks.

UltraX

OpenBMB🇨🇳Research

Textopen

UltraX is a refinement model for web pre-training data. It predicts structured edit calls, such as removing line ranges or replacing substrings, which are applied deterministically to the original text.

1 variant0.6B Preview

Claude Fable 5

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

ReasoningVisionAPI

Anthropic's new top flagship — replaces the Opus tier as the strongest generally available model. Arena Elo 1508 (rank 1). 1M context, Adaptive Thinking always on, $10/$50 per MTok. Fable 5 + Mythos 5 (invite-only) launched together on June 9, 2026.

Diffusiongemma

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

TextVisionopen

Open-weights multimodal model from Google DeepMind that takes text, image and video input and outputs text. It denoises 256-token blocks in parallel via diffusion instead of generating token by token, aimed at speed. The model card reports most benchmark scores below those of Gemma 4 26B A4B.

1 variant26B A4B IT

SCAIL-2

Z.ai (Zhipu)🇨🇳Frontier

Videoopen

SCAIL-2 animates a reference character from a driving video, supports character replacement and multi-character scenes, and works without intermediate pose representations such as skeleton maps.

PP-OCRv6_tiny

Baidu🇨🇳Major lab

TextVisionopen

PP-OCRv6: From 1.5M to 34.5M Parameters, Surpassing Billion-Scale VLMs on OCR Tasks

4 variantsRec OnnxDet OnnxDet SafetensorsRec Safetensors

PP-OCRv6_small

Baidu🇨🇳Major lab

TextVisionopen

PP-OCRv6: From 1.5M to 34.5M Parameters, Surpassing Billion-Scale VLMs on OCR Tasks

4 variantsRec OnnxDet OnnxDet SafetensorsRec Safetensors
Same release

Week of June 1, 202611 models

Nemotron 3 Ultra

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

ReasoningTextopenAPI

NVIDIA's powerful open-weights MoE model: hybrid LatentMoE + MTP layers, 1M context, 550B/55B active. Free on OpenRouter. Focus: complex multi-agent workflows, code, math, science.

3 variants550B550B A55B NVFP4550B A55B Base BF16

Nemotron 3.5 Content

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

TextReasoningVisionAPI

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety is a compact 4B-parameter multimodal guardrail model from NVIDIA, fine-tuned from Google Gemma-3-4B. It moderates both inputs to and responses from LLMs and VLMs, accepting...

2 variantsSafetySafety Free

ArtiFixer

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

Otheropen

ArtiFixer refines and extends renderings from imperfect 3D reconstructions with a few-step causal diffusion model. It is released for research and development only.

Nex-N2-Pro

◆ Underrated

Nex AGI (Shanghai Innovation Inst.)🇨🇳

ReasoningTextopenAPI

397B model from the Shanghai Innovation Institute — open source, Apache 2.0, free on OpenRouter. Agentic-focused, with papers on a 'Unified Ecosystem for Large-Scale Environment Construction'. 7.87K HF likes despite barely any Western coverage.

Qwen3.7 Plus

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

ReasoningTextAPI

Qwen's latest Plus tier — 1M context, $0.32/$1.28 per MTok. Qwen3.7 Max (stronger) and Plus (more efficient) form the top of the Qwen3.7 line.

LFM2.5

Liquid AI🇺🇸Major lab

TextReasoningopenAPI

LFM2.5 is a hybrid model designed for on-device deployment, featuring 230 million parameters and optimized for fast edge inference. It is suitable for general-purpose text generation and agentic tasks, but not recommended for reasoning-heavy workloads.

48 variants2.6B Free8B A1B Dspark GGUF2.6B Dspark GGUF1.2B Instruct Dspark GGUF2.6B Dspark

MiniMax M3

◆ Underrated

MiniMax🇨🇳Major lab

VisionReasoningopenAPI

MiniMax is barely known in the West — but its M3 model on OpenRouter ($0.30/$1.20 per MTok) is one of the cheapest 1M-context multimodal providers. Successor to Text-01 (4M context).

1 variantMXFP8

Moshika

Kyutai🇫🇷Research

Audioopen

No description yet — the model card or announcement hasn't been summarised.

1 variantRL Seamless

DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek🇨🇳Frontier

ReasoningTextopenAPI

DeepSeek's heavyweight: 1.6T total, 49B active, 1M context, FP4/FP8 mixed precision. Codeforces 3206 Elo beats GPT-5.4. MIT license, fully open weights. $0.435/$0.87 per MTok on OpenRouter.

3 variants081308130813 Batch
Same release

Bernini-R

ByteDance Seed🇨🇳Major lab

Otheropen

Video renderer from ByteDance Seed, fine-tuned from Wan2.1-1.3B for video generation and editing. The modelcard reports performance close to the 14B variant on style transfer, subtitle or watermark removal, and local editing, but weaker results on human generation.

2 variants1.3B DiffusersDiffusers

Week of May 25, 20262 models

Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

ReasoningVisionAPI

Current Opus-tier model (until Claude Fable 5). Arena Elo ~1490. 1M context, Adaptive Thinking, knowledge through Jan 2026. $5/$25 per MTok direct, similar on OpenRouter.

Step 3.7 Flash

◆ Underrated

StepFun🇨🇳Major lab

VisionReasoningopenAPI

201B multimodal open-weights model from StepFun — underrated in the West. Image+text input, strong reasoning. Successor to Step 3.5 Flash (199B). $0.20/$1.15 per MTok on OpenRouter.

Week of May 18, 20264 models

Qwen3.7 Max

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

ReasoningTextAPI

Strongest Qwen3.7 variant: 1M context, $1.25/$3.75 per MTok. More capable than Plus, but pricier. The Qwen3.7 line shipped late May 2026 as the successor to Qwen3.6.

Grok Build 0.1

◆ Underrated

xAI🇺🇸Frontier

CodeReasoningAPI

xAI's coding-focused model — 256K context, $1/$2 per MTok. 'Build' implies software development as the main use case. A separate coding line alongside the general-purpose Grok 4.3.

Gemini 3.5 Flash

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

ReasoningVisionAPI

Google's current Flash generation: 1M context, all modalities, $1.50/$9 per MTok on OpenRouter. Gemini 3.5 Flash is the speed tier of the Gemini 3.x series that replaces Gemini 2.5.

Kimi K2.6

Moonshot AI🇨🇳Frontier

ReasoningVisionopenAPI

Multimodal predecessor of K2.7-Code — Visual Agentic Intelligence with 1.1T parameters. 2.66M HF downloads. Still relevant for multimodal tasks (images, video) since K2.7 is code-only.

Week of May 11, 20261 model

GLM-5.1

◆ Underrated

Z.ai (Zhipu)🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningopen

Direct predecessor of GLM-5.2 (June 20). Still interesting for local deployment. The GLM-5.1 FP8 variant has 1.33M downloads — massive interest from the CN community.

Week of May 4, 20261 model

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

VisionTextAPI

Google's cheapest Gemini 3.x option: 1M context, $0.25/$1.50 per MTok. The 'Lite' variant is the first choice when token costs are critical and multimodality is needed.

Week of April 27, 202611 models

Laguna M.1

◆ Underrated

Poolside🇺🇸Major lab

CodeReasoningopenAPI

Poolside's strong coding-agent model: 226B MoE, Apache 2.0, SWE-bench Pro 49.2%. Free on OpenRouter! Specialized for agentic long-horizon coding tasks. Poolside is a little-known US AI company.

1 variantBase

Laguna XS.2

◆ Underrated

Poolside🇺🇸Major lab

CodeopenAPI

Poolside's lean coding model: 33B MoE, 3B active, for local deployments. Free on OpenRouter. Sliding-window attention for very fast inference. 231K downloads on HF.

1 variantXS

Grok 4.3

xAI🇺🇸Frontier

ReasoningVisionAPI

xAI's current frontier model on OpenRouter ($1.25/$2.50 per MTok). Grok 4.3 positions itself as a strong all-rounder. Also accessible via Grok.com / X Premium.

Mistral Small 4

Mistral AI🇫🇷Frontier

TextReasoningopenAPI

Mistral ironically calls 119B 'Small' — Apache 2.0, with instruction-following, reasoning and coding in one. Mistral positions itself as the strongest European open-weights challenger.

1 variant119B

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI🇫🇷Frontier

TextVisionAPI

Mistral Medium 3.5 is Mistral's first flagship to handle instruction-following, reasoning and coding in a unified way. 418K HF downloads, EAGLE-acceleration variant available. $1.50/$7.50 per MTok on OpenRouter.

Granite 4.1

◆ Underrated

IBM🇺🇸Major lab

TextCodeopenAPI

IBM's Granite 4.x generation: 8B, Apache 2.0, $0.05/$0.10 per MTok (one of the cheapest). Enterprise-focused, strong on structured tasks. IBM ships Granite models consistently with open weights.

1 variant8B

Kimi K2.5

Moonshot AI🇨🇳Frontier

ReasoningVisionopen

Moonshot's 'Visual Agentic Intelligence' — 1.81M HF downloads. Basis for K2.6 and K2.7. One of the first large models with real multimodal agentics at 1T parameters.

Command A+

◆ Underrated

Cohere🇨🇦Major lab

ReasoningVisionopenAPI

Cohere's first multimodal open-weights flagship: 218B MoE, 25B active, 128K context, 48 languages, Apache 2.0. Reasoning tokens, tool use with JSON schema. Not on OpenRouter yet.

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni

◆ Underrated

NVIDIA🇺🇸Major lab

ReasoningVisionopenAPI

NVIDIA's small multimodal reasoning model: 30B MoE, only 3B active, text+image+audio input. Free on OpenRouter. Designed for on-device, 4x faster than its predecessor, reasoning ON/OFF mode.

1 variant30B

Qwen3.6 Flash

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

ReasoningTextAPI

Fast variant of the Qwen3.6 family: 1M context, $0.19/$1.13 per MTok. Qwen3.6 shipped as Flash, 27B, 35B and Max-preview variants — all on April 28, 2026.

Same release

Week of April 20, 20268 models

GPT-5.5

OpenAI🇺🇸Frontier

ReasoningVisionAPI

OpenAI's current frontier model: 'A new class of intelligence for coding and professional work.' 1M context, knowledge cutoff Dec 2025, $5/$30 per MTok. GPT-5.5 Pro as the stronger variant ($30/$180 per MTok).

Same release

MiMo V2.5 Pro

◆ Underrated

Xiaomi MiMo🇨🇳Major lab

ReasoningTextopenAPI

Xiaomi's reasoning model on OpenRouter ($0.435/$0.87 per MTok). MiMo is Xiaomi's first serious LLM push — barely noticed in the West. 1M context. V2.5 (lighter) and V2.5-Pro available.

1 variantFP4 Dflash
Same release

Hy3

◆ Underrated

Tencent🇨🇳Major lab

TextReasoningopenAPI

Tencent's Hunyuan 3 in preview on OpenRouter ($0.063/$0.21 per MTok). One of the cheapest models available. Tencent is a heavyweight that gets little Western attention in AI.

2 variantsPreviewFP8

Ling-2.6

◆ Underrated

Ant Group (inclusionAI)🇨🇳Major lab

ReasoningTextopenAPI

Ant Group's (Alipay's parent) 1-trillion-parameter MoE model — Apache 2.0. Extremely cheap on OpenRouter ($0.075/$0.625 per MTok). 472 likes on HF despite barely any Western coverage.

2 variants1T1T Base
Same release

GPT-5.4 Image 2

OpenAI🇺🇸Frontier

ImageVisionAPI

OpenAI's second image-generation iteration on the GPT-5.4 base: $8/$15 per MTok (input/output). The current standard route for professional AI image generation via OpenRouter API.

Week of March 30, 20261 model

GLM-5

◆ Underrated

Z.ai (Zhipu)🇨🇳Frontier

TextReasoningopen

First release of the GLM-5 generation (April 2026). 2.1K likes on HuggingFace. Zhipu's development rhythm is remarkable: one major release per month.

Week of February 23, 20261 model

Gemma 3n

◆ Underrated

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

Visionopen

Google's on-device multimodal model: handles text, image, video AND audio at just 4B effective parameters. MatFormer architecture enables sub-models within the same checkpoint. Designed for edge deployments.

1 variantE4B

Week of January 26, 20261 model

Claude Opus 4.7

Anthropic🇺🇸Frontier

ReasoningVisionAPI

A few generations before Fable 5 — but in thinking mode Arena Elo 1502, rank 3 worldwide. Still relevant for setups where Extended Thinking is desired and Fable 5's Adaptive Thinking isn't enough.

Week of October 27, 20251 model

GPT-5.4

OpenAI🇺🇸Frontier

ReasoningVisionAPI

Predecessor of GPT-5.5, but still very widely used ($2.50/$15 per MTok vs. $5/$30 for 5.5). Mini variant (400K context, $0.75/$4.50) for coding agents and subagents. IMOAnswerBench 91.4%.

Week of April 28, 20251 model

Qwen3

◆ Underrated

Alibaba Qwen🇨🇳Frontier

ReasoningTextopen

Alibaba's strong open-weights model from April 2025 — basis for many downstream variants. Qwen3.5 and 3.6 followed in 2026. Often overlooked in the West despite AIME 2025 85.7%.

1 variant235B A22B

Week of March 31, 20251 model

Llama 4 Maverick

Meta🇺🇸Frontier

Visionopen

Meta's multimodal MoE flagship: 17B active, 128 experts, 402B total, 1M-token context. Scout variant (16E, 109B) for lean deployments. Llama 5 is expected in H2 2026.

Week of March 10, 20251 model

Gemma 3

Google DeepMind🇺🇸Frontier

Visionopen

Google's open-weights flagship: 27B (also 1B, 4B, 12B), 128K context, text+image, 140+ languages. Gemma 3 is the basis for many community fine-tunes. Superseded by Gemma 4.

1 variant27B