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Best Open-Source / Open-Weights AI Models (2026)

Models whose weights are public on Hugging Face — download them, run them on your own hardware, or call them through Appmo. Ranked by downloads. Check each license before commercial use.
ModelProviderIn $/1MOut $/1MContextLicenseDownloads (30d)
Qwen: Qwen3 14B Open weights · apache-2.0qwen$0.12$0.2440Kapache-2.012.9M
Qwen-Image-2.1 Open weights · custom licenseCreates imagescomfy-org———custom license10.4M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0.15$1.8751Mapache-2.07.7M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (batch) Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0.16$2262Kapache-2.07.7M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Open weights · mitdeepseek$0.26$0.38163Kmit7.5M
Google: Gemma 4 31B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesgoogle$0.2$0.4262Kapache-2.07.2M
Google: Gemma 4 31B (free) Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesgoogle$0$0262Kapache-2.07.2M
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0.25$0.75262Kapache-2.07.1M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash Open weights · mitReads imagesz-ai$0.0335$0.0831Mmit6.4M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) Open weights · mitReads imagesz-ai$0.05$0.181Mmit6.4M
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0.17$0.25262Kapache-2.06.3M
Qwen: Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Open weights · apache-2.0qwen$0.1$0.232Kapache-2.06M
OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b Open weights · apache-2.0openai$0.03$0.13131Kapache-2.05.9M
OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b (batch) Open weights · apache-2.0openai$0.024$0.112131Kapache-2.05.9M
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesgoogle$0.0675$0.225262Kapache-2.05.6M
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesgoogle$0$0262Kapache-2.05.6M
stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 Open weights · openrail++Creates imagesstabilityai———openrail++4.6M
Krea-2 Open weights · custom licenseCreates imagescomfy-org———custom license4.4M
Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Open weights · llama3.1meta-llama$0.05$0.08131Kllama3.14.3M
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0.1$0.9262Kapache-2.04.3M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash Open weights · custom licenseReads imagesqwen$0.15$0.471Mcustom license3.5M
Qwen: Qwen3 32B Open weights · apache-2.0qwen$0.08$0.28131Kapache-2.03M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Open weights · mitdeepseek$0.0434$0.31Mmit2.7M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (batch) Open weights · mitdeepseek$0.048$0.1441Mmit2.7M
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b Open weights · apache-2.0openai$0.021$0.079131Kapache-2.02.4M
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch) Open weights · apache-2.0openai$0.0296$0.136131Kapache-2.02.4M
Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0.32$3.2262Kapache-2.02.3M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Open weights · custom licensez-ai$0.0699$1.41Mcustom license2.1M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch) Open weights · custom licensez-ai$0.37$1.51Mcustom license2.1M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Open weights · mitReads imagesdeepseek$0.051$0.411Mmit1.8M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) Open weights · mitReads imagesdeepseek$0.011$0.21Mmit1.8M
Thinking Machines: Inkling Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesthinkingmachines$1$4.05524Kapache-2.01.8M
Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0.26$2.6262Kapache-2.01.7M
PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesprism-ml$0.075$0.5262Kapache-2.01.7M
Qwen-Image-2.1-GGUF Open weights · custom licenseCreates imagesunsloth———custom license1.6M
Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0.14$1262Kapache-2.01.6M
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B Open weights · custom licensenvidia$0.06$0.24262Kcustom license1.6M
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct Open weights · apache-2.0qwen$0.15$0.6262Kapache-2.01.6M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 Open weightsdeepseek$0.32$0.89163K—1.5M
Meta: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct Open weights · llama3.2meta-llama$0.027$0.20160Kllama3.21.4M
Z.ai: GLM 5 Open weights · mitz-ai$1$3.2204Kmit1.4M
Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo-GGUF Open weights · custom licenseCreates imagesunsloth———custom license1.3M
RealVisXL_V5.0 Open weights · openrail++Creates imagessg161222———openrail++1.3M
Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air Open weights · mitz-ai$0.13$0.85131Kmit1.3M
Flux-2-Klein-4B Open weights · apache-2.0Creates imagescomfy-org———apache-2.01.3M
Flux-1-Dev Open weights · custom licenseCreates imagescomfy-org———custom license1.2M
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesthinkingmachines$0.45$1.2524Kapache-2.01.2M
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch) Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesthinkingmachines$0.36$0.96524Kapache-2.01.2M
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 Open weights · custom licenseminimax$0.3$1.2204Kcustom license1.2M
Tencent: Hy3 Open weights · apache-2.0tencent$0.132$0.528262Kapache-2.01.2M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 Open weights · mitdeepseek$0.091$0.1821Mmit1.1M
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Open weights · apache-2.0qwen$0.12$0.540Kapache-2.01.1M
PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 9B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesprism-ml$0.08$0.13262Kapache-2.01.1M
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Open weights · custom licensenvidia$0.07$0.2262Kcustom license1.1M
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) Open weights · custom licensenvidia$0$01Mcustom license1.1M
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra Open weights · custom licensenvidia$0.6$2.4262Kcustom license1.1M
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) Open weights · custom licensenvidia$0$01Mcustom license1.1M
stable-diffusion-v1-5 Open weights · creativeml-openrail-mCreates imagesstable-diffusion-v1-5———creativeml-openrail-m1.1M
Flux-2-Dev Open weights · custom licenseCreates imagescomfy-org———custom license1M
Z.ai: GLM 4.7 Flash Open weights · mitz-ai$0.0605$0.4200Kmit1M