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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)
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesgoogle$0.0675$0.225262Kapache-2.012.9M
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesgoogle$0$0262Kapache-2.012.9M
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0.117$0.455262Kapache-2.012.8M
Qwen: Qwen3 8B Open weights · apache-2.0qwen$0.117$0.455131Kapache-2.010.1M
Google: Gemma 4 31B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesgoogle$0.09$0.34262Kapache-2.09.9M
Google: Gemma 4 31B (free) Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesgoogle$0$0262Kapache-2.09.9M
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0.1$0.15262Kapache-2.08.9M
Qwen: Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Open weights · apache-2.0qwen$0.1$0.232Kapache-2.08.3M
Meta: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct Open weights · llama3.2meta-llama$0.027$0.20160Kllama3.27.6M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0.425$2.551Mapache-2.06.8M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free) Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0$0262Kapache-2.06.8M
OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b Open weights · apache-2.0openai$0.018$0.09131Kapache-2.06.4M
OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b (batch) Open weights · apache-2.0openai$0.024$0.112131Kapache-2.06.4M
Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Open weights · llama3.1meta-llama$0.05$0.08131Kllama3.16.1M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash Open weights · mitReads imagesz-ai$0.15$0.51Mmit5.6M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) Open weights · mitReads imagesz-ai$0.06$0.21Mmit5.6M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Open weights · mitdeepseek$0.0152$1.281Mmit4.5M
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b Open weights · apache-2.0openai$0.037$0.17131Kapache-2.04.4M
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch) Open weights · apache-2.0openai$0.0296$0.136131Kapache-2.04.4M
stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 Open weights · openrail++Creates imagesstabilityai———openrail++4.3M
PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesprism-ml$0.075$0.5262Kapache-2.04M
Qwen: Qwen3 32B Open weights · apache-2.0qwen$0.08$0.28131Kapache-2.03.9M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Open weights · mitdeepseek$0.28$0.42163Kmit3.7M
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0.15$1262Kapache-2.03.4M
Qwen: Qwen3 14B Open weights · apache-2.0qwen$0.12$0.24131Kapache-2.03.1M
Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0.32$3.2262Kapache-2.02.4M
Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0.195$1.56262Kapache-2.01.9M
Z.ai: GLM 4.7 Flash Open weights · mitz-ai$0.0605$0.4200Kmit1.7M
Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Open weights · llama3.2meta-llama$0.05$0.33131Kllama3.21.6M
stable-diffusion-v1-5 Open weights · creativeml-openrail-mCreates imagesstable-diffusion-v1-5———creativeml-openrail-m1.6M
Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesqwen$0.15$1262Kapache-2.01.6M
Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF Open weights · custom licenseCreates imagesabenzerps———custom license1.6M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash Open weights · custom licenseReads imagesqwen$0.15$0.471Mcustom license1.5M
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Open weights · apache-2.0qwen$0.12$0.5131Kapache-2.01.5M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Open weights · custom licensez-ai$1.4$4.41Mcustom license1.4M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (batch) Open weights · custom licensez-ai$0.45$21Mcustom license1.4M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 Open weights · mitdeepseek$0.25$1163Kmit1.4M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 Open weightsdeepseek$0.2574$1.0287163K—1.4M
Google: Gemma 3 4B Open weights · gemmaReads imagesgoogle$0.05$0.1131Kgemma1.2M
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 Open weights · custom licenseReads imagesmoonshotai$0.72$131Mcustom license1.2M
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch) Open weights · custom licenseReads imagesmoonshotai$2.28$11.41Mcustom license1.2M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 Open weights · mitdeepseek$0.0224$1.281Mmit1M
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 Open weights · custom licenseminimax$0.21$0.84204Kcustom license1M
DeepSeek: R1 Open weights · mitdeepseek$0.7$2.564Kmit1M
sdxl-turbo Open weights · custom licenseCreates imagesstabilityai———custom license965.6K
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B Open weights · custom licensenvidia$0.05$0.2262Kcustom license903K
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 Open weights · apache-2.0qwen$0.0481$0.193262Kapache-2.0896.8K
dreamshaper-7 Open weights · creativeml-openrail-mCreates imageslykon———creativeml-openrail-m883.5K
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp Open weights · mitReads imagesdeepseek$0.2156$0.64681Mmit882.6K
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct Open weights · apache-2.0qwen$0.66$132Kapache-2.0870.7K
Thinking Machines: Inkling Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesthinkingmachines$0.95$4.05524Kapache-2.0832.7K
Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesthinkingmachines$0$01Mapache-2.0832.7K
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Open weights · mitReads imagesdeepseek$0.003$2.41Mmit798.4K
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) Open weights · mitReads imagesdeepseek$0.112$0.3361Mmit798.4K
Z-Image-Turbo-GGUF Open weights · apache-2.0Creates imagesunsloth———apache-2.0720.9K
FLUX.1-dev Open weights · custom licenseCreates imagesblack-forest-labs———custom license706.9K
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 Open weights · mitz-ai$0.38$3.491Mmit694.2K
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesthinkingmachines$0.45$1.2524Kapache-2.0678.5K
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) Open weights · apache-2.0Reads imagesthinkingmachines$0$01Mapache-2.0678.5K
stable-diffusion-v1-4 Open weights · creativeml-openrail-mCreates imagescompvis———creativeml-openrail-m638.5K