Category
Best Open-Source / Open-Weight AI
| # | Model | Region | Tier | Price in / out | Context | Strengths | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kimi K3Moonshot AI · open | 🇨🇳 CN | Frontier | $3 / $15 | 1M | China's top-priced reasoning model; open-weight | src |
| 2 | DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek · open | 🇨🇳 CN | Pro | $1.32 / $3.96 | 1M | Low price; 50% off-peak Peak cache-miss rate; open-weights status: verify | src |
| 3 | GLM-5.3Zhipu / Z.ai · open | 🇨🇳 CN | Pro | $1.4 / $4.4 | 1M | Strong value open-weight model | src |
| 4 | DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek · open | 🇨🇳 CN | Strong | $0.3 / $1.2 | 1M | Very cheap; half off-peak Open-weights status: verify | src |
| 5 | gpt-oss-120BOpenAI (via Together) · open | 🇺🇸 US | Strong | $0.15 / $0.6 | 131K | Open-weights OpenAI model | src |
| 6 | MiniMax-M3MiniMax · open | 🇨🇳 CN | Strong | $0.3 / $1.2 | 1M | Very cheap (permanent 50% off; 2x above 512K input) Open-weights status: verify | src |
| 7 | Mistral Small 4Mistral · open | 🇪🇺 EU | Lite | $0.15 / $0.6 | 262K | Cheap, efficient Open-weights status: verify | src |
| 8 | GLM-5.3-FlashZhipu / Z.ai · open | 🇨🇳 CN | Lite | $0.15 / $0.5 | 1M | Cheapest GLM tier Open-weights status: verify | src |