Free AI Models for Developers: Compare the Best Open Models

Last updated on Jun 26, 2026, 3:40 PM
Free AI Models for Developers: Compare the Best Open Models
🤖 Model🏢 DeveloperVideo📅 Release Date📜 License🧠 Architecture⚡ Active Params📚 Context Window👁️ Modalities🎯 Use Case Fit💻 SWE-Bench🏆 Top Benchmark☁️ Deployment💲 Run Cost Tier⭐ Key Strengths🔗 HuggingFace / Link
Gemma 4Google DeepMindhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LEvSOiTWZk4/1/2026 [no-highlight]Apache 2.0Dense + MoE31B / ~4.5B (edge)256KText, Image, AudioCoding, Agents, Reasoning, Multilingual65%AIME, GPQA, LiveCodeBenchAPI + Self-hostLowReasoning, coding, agentic tasks, efficient hybrid attentionhttps://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4
Qwen3.5-397B-A17BAlibaba Qwenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAFbrO-VNVwFeb 2026Apache 2.0Hybrid MoE + Linear Attention~17B active262K (up to 1M+)Text, Image, Video, DocumentsCoding, Agents, Long-doc, Multilingual68%Instruction following, reasoning, codingAPI + Self-hostLowNative vision-language, agentic workflows, math/coding, 201 languageshttps://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
MiniMax-M3MiniMaxhttps://youtu.be/yWXK6zu_kGE?si=8AQ6uf2pvNe_i-CyJun 2026MiniMax CommunityMoE23B active1MText, Image, Video, Computer UseCoding, Agents, Vision74%SWE-Bench style, long autonomous runsAPIMidFrontier-level coding, native multimodality, long-horizon agentsFireworks / OpenRouter
Kimi-K2.6Moonshot AIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSfpwaujqLQ2026Modified MITMoE~32B active256KText, Image, VideoCoding, Agents, Long-doc73%Long-horizon coding, agent swarm performanceAPI + Self-hostMidLong-horizon coding, agent swarms (300+ sub-agents), proactive autonomous agentshttps://huggingface.co/moonshotai
DeepSeek-V4 ProDeepSeekhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcSPD64453U2026MITMoE49B active1MTextCoding, Reasoning, Long-doc72%SimpleQA-Verified, LiveCodeBenchAPI + Self-hostMidAdaptive think modes, world knowledge, efficient long-context reasoninghttps://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai
DeepSeek-V4 FlashDeepSeekhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FwWRVHhdiE2026MITMoE13B active1MTextCoding, Reasoning65%LiveCodeBench, fast inferenceAPI + Self-hostLowFast, efficient variant of V4; strong coding at low costhttps://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai
GLM-5.2Zhipu AI (Z.ai)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qGxgZmSE4YJun 2026MITMoE + IndexShare~40B active1MTextCoding, Agents, Long-doc76%SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-BenchAPI + Self-hostMidLong-horizon agentic reasoning, repository-scale work, multiple thinking effort levelshttps://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.2
MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi MiMohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=popj1l3LA-IApr–May 2026MIT-like (permissive)MoE + Hybrid Attention + MTP42B active1MText, Image, Video, AudioCoding, Agents, Vision, General71%Agentic coding, complex SE trajectoriesSelf-hostLow (self-host)Agentic capabilities, complex software engineering, instruction following at 1M contexthttps://huggingface.co/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.5-Pro
Qwen3-Coder-NextAlibaba Qwenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrqlt8Mm1ocFeb 2026Apache 2.0Hybrid MoE~3B activeLong coding contextTextCoding70.60%SWE-Bench Verified ~70.6%API + Self-hostLowSpecialized for coding agents, tool use, local development workflowshttps://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next
Gemma 4 E4B (Edge)Google DeepMindhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1EchjiViOsApr 2026Apache 2.0Small MoE / Edge optimized~4.5B256KText, Image, AudioCoding, Reasoning, On-device48%Competitive for size on reasoning/codingSelf-host / On-deviceVery LowOn-device multimodal reasoning and coding; efficient edge deploymenthttps://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4
Un-0Unconventional AIJun 2026Open (verify)Physics-based (coupled oscillators)Not disclosedN/AImage generationVision, ResearchN/ANovel non-neural ImageNet 64x64Self-host / ResearchLow (experimental)Physics-inspired image generation, power-efficient via physical dynamicsUnconventional AI announcement
Wan 2.2 / Wan-VideoWan-Video Teamhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGB4qBkCFSM2026Apache 2.0MoE DiffusionNot specifiedN/A (video length)Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, EditingVideo generationN/ALeads Wan-Bench; cinematic qualitySelf-hostMid (GPU required)Cinematic video, long prompts (5000+ chars), 9-grid image input, first/last frame controlhttps://github.com/Wan-Video
LTX-2.3Lightrickshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-PIgkRWJOcMar 2026Open weights (permissive)Diffusion + Audio22BN/A (video focused)Text-to-Video, AudioVideo generation, AudioN/AStrong open-weights video; 4K at 50fpsSelf-hostMid (GPU required)High-resolution video (4K), native audio generation, portrait/vertical video, fast inferencehttps://github.com/Lightricks/LTX-2