The best free open-weight AI models (24)

Every option in the catalog for when you need to download weights you can inspect, fine-tune and self-host — 24 open-weight AI models, 24 of them free or freemium, with the pricing tier printed on every row.

24tools listed
24free or freemium
23with no paid plan at all
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Best Free Open-weight AI models — straight answers

What are the best free open-weight AI models?

Flocci AI Tools lists 24 of them, ordered free tiers first: DeepSeek Models, ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu), Falcon (TII), Hunyuan (Tencent) and MiniMax M2 (open weights). Every one of them is free or has a free tier. Each entry states what it uniquely does rather than a score.

Which of these are completely free?

23 on this page are marked fully free with no paid plan at all: DeepSeek Models, ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu), Falcon (TII), Hunyuan (Tencent) and MiniMax M2 (open weights). The remaining 1 are freemium, trial or paid, and each is labelled with its exact tier so nothing surprises you at sign-up.

How is this list ordered?

Free tools first, then freemium, then trial, then paid, and alphabetically inside each tier. Nobody pays to appear higher: Flocci AI Tools carries no ads, no sponsored slots and no paid listings, so the order reflects price and nothing else.

Best Free Open-weight AI models — quick picks

Which open-weight AI models work in a browser with no install?

DeepSeek Models, ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu), Falcon (TII), Hunyuan (Tencent) and MiniMax M2 (open weights) all work in a browser tab with no install needed — just open the site and go. 12 of the 24 free open-weight AI models listed here are browser-based.

Which open-weight AI models let you sign in with Google?

Qwen (Alibaba) supports Google sign-in, so you can start without creating a new account. That's 1 of the 24 free open-weight AI models on this page.

Which open-weight AI models have a mobile app?

DeepSeek Models and Qwen (Alibaba) have an iOS or Android app. 2 of the 24 free open-weight AI models here can run on your phone.

Which open-weight AI models can you self-host or run offline?

GPT-OSS (OpenAI), Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI), Llama (Meta), Sarvam Open Models (30B / 105B) and TimesFM (Google Research) can be self-hosted or run locally without a browser — useful for privacy, air-gapped networks, or avoiding API rate limits. 5 of the 24 free open-weight AI models here run offline.

All 24 tools, free tiers first

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Best Free Open-weight AI models: pricing tier, category and the capability each tool is listed for.
ToolPricingTypeListed for
DeepSeek ModelsFreeNotable Open ModelsDeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight MoE models, MIT-licensed
ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu)FreeNotable Open ModelsERNIE-4.5 family including 21B-A3B Thinking and VL-424B-A47B multimodal MoE
Falcon (TII)FreeNotable Open ModelsFalcon-H1 hybrid Transformer-Mamba family for efficient long-context inference
Hunyuan (Tencent)FreeNotable Open ModelsOpen-weight Hunyuan Hy3 and Hy4-preview flagship text models
MiniMax M2 (open weights)FreeNotable Open ModelsMiniMax's open-weight M-series: M3 multimodal MoE with very long context, plus M2.x agentic-coding checkpoints
Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral)FreeNotable Open ModelsOpen-weight Mistral Medium 3.5, Small 4 and Large 3 general models
OLMo (Ai2)FreeNotable Open ModelsOnly major model family shipping full pretraining data (Dolma), code and intermediate checkpoints, not just weights
Qwen (Alibaba)FreeNotable Open ModelsOpen Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0
Seed-OSS (ByteDance)FreeNotable Open ModelsSeed-OSS-36B open reasoning LLM with native 512K-token context, Apache 2.0
Step (StepFun)FreeNotable Open ModelsStep-3.7-Flash open multimodal model with FP8, NVFP4 and GGUF builds
Xiaomi MiMoFreeNotable Open ModelsMiMo-V2.6-Pro (1T parameters) and V2.6-Flash (311B) open-weight reasoning and agent models
EXAONE (LG AI Research)FreeNotable Open ModelsEXAONE 4.5: LG's first open-weight vision-language model for industrial use cases
Gemma (Google)FreeNotable Open ModelsGoogle's lightweight open models (Gemma 4)
GPT-OSS (OpenAI)FreeNotable Open ModelsOpenAI's Apache-2.0 open-weight reasoning models (120B and 20B)
IBM GraniteFreeNotable Open ModelsApache 2.0 licensed enterprise-grade model family
Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI)FreeNotable Open ModelsOpen-weight multimodal MoE with about 2.8T total and 104B active parameters, 1M-token context
Llama (Meta)FreeNotable Open ModelsMeta's flagship open-weight family (Llama 4)
LongCat (Meituan)FreeNotable Open ModelsLongCat-2.0 open-weight 1.8T-parameter model with FP8 and INT8 builds
Nemotron (NVIDIA)FreeNotable Open ModelsNVIDIA's open Nemotron 3 family of efficient agentic models
Phi (Microsoft)FreeNotable Open ModelsMIT-licensed small language models for on-device and edge use
PleiasFreeNotable Open ModelsFully open-weight, open-dataset small language models (350M-3B) explicitly built for EU AI Act compliance
Sarvam Open Models (30B / 105B)FreeNotable Open ModelsSarvam-105B and Sarvam-30B open models built for Indian languages, with FP8 and GGUF builds
TimesFM (Google Research)FreeNotable Open ModelsPretrained decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting
GLM (Z.ai)FreemiumNotable Open ModelsGLM-5.x flagship and Flash models released as open weights on Hugging Face

DeepSeek Models

Notable Open Models
free
  • DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight MoE models, MIT-licensed
  • Very long context with reasoning and non-reasoning modes
  • Successors to the V3 and R1 lines
  • Free weights plus free web chat
freeNew
  • ERNIE-4.5 family including 21B-A3B Thinking and VL-424B-A47B multimodal MoE
  • ERNIE-Image and ERNIE-Image-Turbo 8B text-to-image models
  • Unlimited-OCR 3B document model (1.5M+ downloads)

Falcon (TII)

Notable Open Models
free
  • Falcon-H1 hybrid Transformer-Mamba family for efficient long-context inference
  • Falcon-H1R small reasoning model with strong math results for its size
  • Free commercial use under TII's Falcon license

Hunyuan (Tencent)

Notable Open Models
free
  • Open-weight Hunyuan Hy3 and Hy4-preview flagship text models
  • Hunyuan3D line for fast image-to-3D generation
  • Hy-MT translation models covering dozens of language pairs

MiniMax M2 (open weights)

Notable Open Models
free
  • MiniMax's open-weight M-series: M3 multimodal MoE with very long context, plus M2.x agentic-coding checkpoints
  • Distinct from MiniMax's Hailuo video product
  • Free weights on Hugging Face
  • Open-weight Mistral Medium 3.5, Small 4 and Large 3 general models
  • Devstral for coding agents and Magistral for visible reasoning
  • Voxtral open-weights speech models for transcription and voice agents

OLMo (Ai2)

Notable Open Models
free
  • Only major model family shipping full pretraining data (Dolma), code and intermediate checkpoints, not just weights
  • Olmo 3 ships Base, Think, and Instruct variants at 7B/32B
  • OlmoCore training framework and Open Instruct pipeline are also open source

Qwen (Alibaba)

Notable Open Models
free
  • Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0
  • Qwen3.6 mid-size models suit agentic coding on one high-memory machine
  • Small Qwen3.5 sizes run on phones and laptops
  • Free weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope

Seed-OSS (ByteDance)

Notable Open Models
freeNew
  • Seed-OSS-36B open reasoning LLM with native 512K-token context, Apache 2.0
  • Base, Base-without-synthetic-data and Instruct checkpoints
  • Adjustable thinking budget for reasoning length

Step (StepFun)

Notable Open Models
freeNew
  • Step-3.7-Flash open multimodal model with FP8, NVFP4 and GGUF builds
  • Step-3.5-Flash text model widely run locally
  • 51 open models incl. audio and image models

Xiaomi MiMo

Notable Open Models
freeNew
  • MiMo-V2.6-Pro (1T parameters) and V2.6-Flash (311B) open-weight reasoning and agent models
  • Distilled MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B for single-GPU use
  • V2-Flash, V2.5 and V2.5-Pro checkpoints also published

EXAONE (LG AI Research)

Notable Open Models
free
  • EXAONE 4.5: LG's first open-weight vision-language model for industrial use cases
  • 33B flagship plus FP8/AWQ quantized variants for efficient local deployment
  • Backed by LG's enterprise/manufacturing domain tuning

Gemma (Google)

Notable Open Models
free
  • Google's lightweight open models (Gemma 4)
  • Runs in as little as 16GB RAM
  • On-device and multimodal variants
  • Free and open

GPT-OSS (OpenAI)

Notable Open Models
free
  • OpenAI's Apache-2.0 open-weight reasoning models (120B and 20B)
  • Run locally or self-host, with configurable reasoning effort
  • Safeguard variants for policy-based content classification

IBM Granite

Notable Open Models
free
  • Apache 2.0 licensed enterprise-grade model family
  • Hybrid Mamba/transformer architecture (Granite 4) for lower memory footprint
  • Built-in focus on governance, provenance and enterprise compliance

Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI)

Notable Open Models
freeNew
  • Open-weight multimodal MoE with about 2.8T total and 104B active parameters, 1M-token context
  • Native text, image and video input with configurable thinking effort
  • Earlier open Kimi K2.x (K2.5, K2.6, K2.7-Code) remain downloadable from the same org
  • Weights free to download; also usable free in kimi.com chat with limits

Llama (Meta)

Notable Open Models
free
  • Meta's flagship open-weight family (Llama 4)
  • Multimodal and long-context variants
  • Run locally or via any host
  • Free, permissive license

LongCat (Meituan)

Notable Open Models
freeNew
  • LongCat-2.0 open-weight 1.8T-parameter model with FP8 and INT8 builds
  • LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse 69B, LongCat-Flash-Prover and LongCat-Next any-to-any models
  • Also AudioDiT speech and Video-Avatar models, all downloadable

Nemotron (NVIDIA)

Notable Open Models
free
  • NVIDIA's open Nemotron 3 family of efficient agentic models
  • Top-ranked open embedding models (Llama-Embed-Nemotron)
  • Open training datasets released alongside the models

Phi (Microsoft)

Notable Open Models
free
  • MIT-licensed small language models for on-device and edge use
  • Phi-4 reasoning and reasoning-vision variants decide when to think step by step
  • Phi-4-mini and multimodal variants handle text, vision and audio
  • Available on Hugging Face, Azure AI Foundry and Ollama

Pleias

Notable Open Models
free
  • Fully open-weight, open-dataset small language models (350M-3B) explicitly built for EU AI Act compliance
  • Trained exclusively on the 2-trillion-token open Common Corpus, not scraped/licensed text
  • Purpose-built RAG models (Pleias-RAG-350M/1B) with built-in citation tracking, Apache 2.0 licensed
freeNew
  • Sarvam-105B and Sarvam-30B open models built for Indian languages, with FP8 and GGUF builds
  • Sarvam-Translate 4B for multilingual translation
  • Downloadable from Hugging Face at no cost

TimesFM (Google Research)

Notable Open Models
freeNew
  • Pretrained decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting
  • Zero-shot forecasts with quantile outputs
  • Weights on Hugging Face, also in BigQuery
  • Apache-2.0 licensed

GLM (Z.ai)

Notable Open Models
freemium
  • GLM-5.x flagship and Flash models released as open weights on Hugging Face
  • GLM-4.x Flash text and vision models are free via the Z.ai API
  • Strong agentic and coding results among open Chinese models

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