Best Free AI Models: Compare Today's LLM Rankings

Compare the best free models for coding, writing, reasoning and multimodal work before choosing an API provider.

Last updated: 2026-08-23

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. Test shortlisted models with your own prompts before relying on them in production.

Available free models

Platform	Model	Text rank	Code rank	Type	Context	Visit platform
OpenRouter	nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free nvidia	OR #10	-	reasoning	256000	Try model
OpenRouter	google/gemma-4-31b-it:free Google	OR #18	-	text	262144	Try model
OpenRouter	google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free Google	OR #15	-	text	262144	Try model
OpenRouter	nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free nvidia	OR #5#187 1360	-	text	262144	Try model
OpenRouter	nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free nvidia	OR #9	-	text	256000	Try model
OpenRouter	nvidia/nemotron-nano-9b-v2:free nvidia	OR #13	-	text	128000	Try model
OpenRouter	thinkingmachines/inkling:free thinkingmachines	OR #12	-	reasoning	262144	Try model
OpenRouter	thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free thinkingmachines	OR #17	-	reasoning	262144	Try model
OpenRouter	google/lyria-3-clip-preview Google	OR #21	-	text	1048576	Try model
OpenRouter	google/lyria-3-pro-preview Google	OR #20	-	text	1048576	Try model
OpenRouter	cohere/north-mini-code:free cohere	OR #6	-	text	256000	Try model
OpenRouter	z-ai/glm-5.2:free Zhipu AI	OR #11	-	text	256000	Try model
OpenRouter	dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free dots-studio	OR #8	-	text	512000	Try model
OpenRouter	poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free poolside	OR #7	-	text	262144	Try model
OpenRouter	stealth/ox-alpha stealth	OR #1	-	text	1048576	Try model
OpenRouter	nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free nvidia	OR #4	-	text	1000000	Try model
OpenRouter	poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free poolside	OR #3	-	text	262144	Try model
OpenRouter	nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free nvidia	OR #2	-	text	1000000	Try model
OpenRouter	openrouter/free openrouter	OR #22	-	text	200000	Try model
OpenRouter	nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety:free nvidia	OR #19	-	text	128000	Try model
OpenRouter	liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free liquid	OR #16	-	text	65536	Try model
OpenRouter	nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:free nvidia	OR #14	-	multimodal	128000	Try model
SiliconFlow	THUDM/GLM-Z1-9B-0414 THUDM	-	-	reasoning	131072	Try model
SiliconFlow	Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B Alibaba/Qwen	-	-	text	262144	Try model
SiliconFlow	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B DeepSeek	-	-	reasoning	131072	Try model
SiliconFlow	Qwen/Qwen3-8B Alibaba/Qwen	-	-	text	131072	Try model
SiliconFlow	THUDM/GLM-4-9B-0414 THUDM	-	-	text	32768	Try model
SiliconFlow	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR DeepSeek	-	-	text	8192	Try model
SiliconFlow	Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Alibaba/Qwen	-	-	text	32768	Try model
SiliconFlow	tencent/Hunyuan-MT-7B tencent	-	-	text	32768	Try model
SiliconFlow	TeleAI/TeleSpeechASR TeleAI	-	-	text	-	Try model
SiliconFlow	Kwai-Kolors/Kolors Kwai-Kolors	-	-	text	-	Try model
SiliconFlow	BAAI/bge-m3 BAAI	-	-	text	-	Try model
SiliconFlow	BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5 BAAI	-	-	text	-	Try model
SiliconFlow	BAAI/bge-large-zh-v1.5 BAAI	-	-	text	-	Try model
SiliconFlow	BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3 BAAI	-	-	text	-	Try model
SiliconFlow	FunAudioLLM/SenseVoiceSmall FunAudioLLM	-	-	text	-	Try model
SiliconFlow	Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B Alibaba/Qwen	-	-	text	-	Try model
SiliconFlow	PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL-1.5 PaddlePaddle	-	-	multimodal	-	Try model
百度飞桨	paddleocr-vl-1.5 Baidu	-	-	multimodal	8192	Try model
Hugging Face	Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct Alibaba/Qwen	-	-	text	32768	Try model
Hugging Face	openai/whisper-base OpenAI	-	-	text	-	Try model
Hugging Face	hexgrad/Kokoro-82M hexgrad	-	-	text	-	Try model

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.