Free AI Model Rankings & Comparison

Free LLMs across providers, compared by text, code, multimodal and reasoning ability. Updated daily.

Updated 2026-09-04

How to choose a free AI model

Start with the task: use text rankings for writing and Q&A, code rankings for programming, and multimodal models for images or documents. Then compare context window, rate limits and provider availability instead of deciding by model name alone.

Rankings are a shortcut to shortlist candidates; real-world quality depends on prompts, language, task type and platform quotas. Test shortlisted models on your own tasks before using them in production.

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Platform Model Text Code Provider Type Context Size Arch Features Actions
nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free
OR #103
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nvidia
Reasoning 256000 3B Transformer
Reasoning Video Understanding Image Understanding Function Calling
google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free
OR #240
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Google
Text 262144 4B Transformer -
google/gemma-4-31b-it:free
OR #210
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Google
Text 262144 1B Transformer
Image Understanding Reasoning Function Calling
nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free
OR #39 #190 1360
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nvidia
Text 262144 20B Transformer -
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free
OR #73
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thinkingmachines
Reasoning 1048576 Unknown Transformer -
thinkingmachines/inkling:free
OR #49
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thinkingmachines
Reasoning 1048576 Unknown Transformer
Tool Calling Reasoning
google/lyria-3-clip-preview
OR #361
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Google
Text 1048576 Unknown Transformer -
google/lyria-3-pro-preview
OR #333
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Google
Text 1048576 Unknown Transformer -
minimax/minimax-m2.7:free
OR #28 #124 1415
#72 1398
minimax
Text 196608 Unknown Transformer -
cohere/north-mini-code:free
OR #69
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cohere
Text 256000 Unknown Transformer
Code Generation
poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free
OR #70
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poolside
Text 262144 Unknown Transformer -
dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free
OR #54
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dots-studio
Text 512000 Unknown Transformer -
minimax/minimax-m3:free
OR #5 #80 1442
#43 1486
minimax
Text 1048576 Unknown Transformer
Video Understanding Image Understanding
z-ai/glm-5.2:free
OR #132
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Zhipu AI
Text 256000 Unknown Transformer
Reasoning
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin:free
OR #26
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inclusionai
Text 262144 Unknown Transformer -
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free
OR #21
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nvidia
Text 1000000 Unknown Transformer -
poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free
OR #18
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poolside
Text 262144 Unknown Transformer -
nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free
OR #9
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nvidia
Text 1000000 Unknown Transformer
Reasoning
openrouter/free
OR #425
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openrouter
Text 200000 Unknown Transformer -
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety:free
OR #219
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nvidia
Text 128000 Unknown Transformer -
liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free
OR #149
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liquid
Text 65536 Unknown Transformer
Reasoning
THUDM/GLM-Z1-9B-0414
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THUDM
Reasoning 131072 9B Transformer
Tool Calling Reasoning
Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B
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Alibaba/Qwen
Text 262144 4B Transformer
Reasoning Vision Tool Calling
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B
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DeepSeek
Reasoning 131072 8B Transformer
Reasoning
Qwen/Qwen3-8B
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Alibaba/Qwen
Text 131072 8B Transformer
Reasoning Tool Calling
THUDM/GLM-4-9B-0414
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THUDM
Text 32768 9B Transformer
Tool Calling
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR
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DeepSeek
Text 8192 Unknown Transformer
Vision
Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
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Alibaba/Qwen
Text 32768 7B Transformer
Tool Calling JSON Mode
tencent/Hunyuan-MT-7B
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tencent
Text 32768 7B Transformer -
XingChenAGI/XingChenASR-V3.2-Ultra
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XingChenAGI
Text - Unknown Transformer -
BAAI/bge-large-zh-v1.5
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BAAI
Text - Unknown Transformer -
BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5
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BAAI
Text - Unknown Transformer -
Kwai-Kolors/Kolors
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Kwai-Kolors
Text - Unknown Transformer
Image Understanding
XingChenAGI/XingChenASR-V3.2
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XingChenAGI
Text - Unknown Transformer -
FunAudioLLM/SenseVoiceSmall
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FunAudioLLM
Text - Unknown Transformer -
XingChenAGI/XingChenASR-Diarize-V3.0
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XingChenAGI
Text - Unknown Transformer -
BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3
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BAAI
Text - Unknown Transformer
Reranker
BAAI/bge-m3
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BAAI
Text - Unknown Transformer -
XingChenAGI/XingChenGSR-V1.0
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XingChenAGI
Text - Unknown Transformer -
Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B
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Alibaba/Qwen
Text - 7B Transformer -
PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL-1.5
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PaddlePaddle
Multimodal - Unknown Transformer
Vision
paddleocr-vl-1.5
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Baidu
Multimodal 8192 Unknown Vision Transformer -
Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
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Alibaba/Qwen
Text 32768 Unknown Transformer -
openai/whisper-base
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OpenAI
Text - Unknown Transformer -
hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
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hexgrad
Text - Unknown Transformer -
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About these rankings

This page lists currently available free models and their benchmark-based rankings. OpenRouter's weekly token-usage order is the primary ranking signal, with AI Arena used when no OpenRouter ranking is available. Availability, limits and model versions can change by provider. Free tiers are useful for evaluation and smaller workloads; review each provider's terms before production use.

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