Command
Cohere
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Enterprise-leaning models built for RAG and search, with open weights released for research use.
Open models
Open-weight model families and the places that host them.
12 products
editorially ranked — placement is never sold
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Free chat with open-weight reasoning models, and the cheapest serious API anywhere — though DeepSeek announced a substantial price rise in August 2026.
Doubao
ByteDance
✓ 17 Aug 2026
China's most-used consumer assistant, with aggressive metered pricing via Volcano Engine.
Ernie Bot
Baidu
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Baidu's assistant, tied into its search and maps ecosystem.
Hugging Face
Hugging Face
✓ 22 Aug 2026
Where open weights live.
Jamba
AI21 Labs
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Hybrid architecture built for very long documents and grounded answers.
Kimi
Moonshot AI
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Million-token context and strong agentic browsing, with tiers named after tempo markings.
Llama
Meta
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Open weights you host yourself.
MiniMax
MiniMax
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Text, voice and video models under one roof, with open-weight text releases and a pay-as-you-go developer platform.
Qwen Chat
Alibaba
✓ 17 Aug 2026
The most widely forked open-weight family.
Yuanbao
Tencent
✓ 17 Aug 2026
Hunyuan models wrapped in a WeChat-native assistant.
Z.ai GLM
Zhipu AI
✓ 17 Aug 2026
GLM sold as a coding plan that heavily undercuts Western agents.