Reasoning, coding, OCR, long context, and multimodal tasks reward different model families.
Open models by workload and deployment path
Browse models by the work they are likely to power: reasoning, coding, multimodal understanding, OCR, local inference, and self-hosted agent stacks.
Open weights, hosted API access, local runtimes, and self-hosting change cost and data control.
Use your own agent traces, latency budget, and license constraints before trusting public rankings.
Reasoning and coding models
Models to test for planning, code changes, technical review, and tool-heavy agent prompts.
DeepSeek-R1
Open reasoning model family for developers testing long-form reasoning, coding, and local AI workflows.
DeepSeek V4
Open DeepSeek V4 model family for million-token context, coding, reasoning, and agent workflows.
GLM-5
Open model line from Z.ai focused on agentic engineering and longer coding workflows.
GLM-OCR
Open OCR model and pipeline for turning complex document images into usable text.
Qwen3-VL
Open vision-language model family for images, screens, documents, and multimodal workflows.
Qwen3.6
Qwen's open model line focused on stronger coding, agentic tasks, and real-world stability.
Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI's open-weight multimodal model for agentic and tool-using workflows.
Multimodal, OCR, and document models
Models for image understanding, documents, screenshots, OCR, and visual agent workflows.
Local and self-hosted models
Open-weight candidates for teams that care about privacy, reproducibility, and deployment control.
DeepSeek-R1
Open reasoning model family for developers testing long-form reasoning, coding, and local AI workflows.
OLMo 2
Fully open language model family from AI2 for transparent research, training, and evaluation.
DeepSeek V4
Open DeepSeek V4 model family for million-token context, coding, reasoning, and agent workflows.
GLM-5
Open model line from Z.ai focused on agentic engineering and longer coding workflows.
GLM-OCR
Open OCR model and pipeline for turning complex document images into usable text.
Mistral Small 3.2
Apache-licensed small open model for practical instruction following, local inference, and agent experiments.
Qwen3-VL
Open vision-language model family for images, screens, documents, and multimodal workflows.
Qwen3.6
Qwen's open model line focused on stronger coding, agentic tasks, and real-world stability.
Gemma 4
Google DeepMind's open model family for local, multimodal, and agentic AI workflows.
Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI's open-weight multimodal model for agentic and tool-using workflows.
Compact and general-purpose candidates
Useful baselines for cheaper inference, edge experiments, and broad assistant workloads.
OLMo 2
Fully open language model family from AI2 for transparent research, training, and evaluation.
Mistral Small 3.2
Apache-licensed small open model for practical instruction following, local inference, and agent experiments.
Gemma 4
Google DeepMind's open model family for local, multimodal, and agentic AI workflows.