Llama (Meta)
Notable Open Models
- Meta's flagship open-weight family (Llama 4)
- Multimodal and long-context variants
- Run locally or via any host
- Free, permissive license
AI Models & Local Execution (16)
All 16 open-weight AI models in the Flocci catalog, 16 of them free or freemium. Pricing tier and real capabilities on every entry — no ads, no sponsored placement.
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Qwen (Alibaba)
Notable Open Models
- State-of-the-art open MoE models (Qwen3.x)
- Top-tier coding and multilingual skills
- Runs on a single high-RAM Mac
- Free open weights
DeepSeek Models
Notable Open Models
- Open V3-series and R1 reasoning models
- Efficient MoE, low-cost inference
- Strong math and code
- Free open weights
Gemma (Google)
Notable Open Models
- 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
- OpenAI's open-weight reasoning models
- Run locally or self-host
- Configurable reasoning effort
- Free, permissive license
Pleias
Notable Open Models
- 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
Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral)
Notable Open Models
- Devstral: open coding-agent model tuned for SWE-bench-style tasks
- Magistral: open reasoning model with visible chain-of-thought
- Voxtral: open-weights speech model for transcription and voice agents
GLM (Z.ai)
Notable Open Models
- GLM-4.5-Flash and GLM-4.7-Flash text models are free via API
- Open-weight GLM checkpoints on Hugging Face (MIT-style license for GLM-4.5-Air)
- Strong agentic/coding benchmark results rivaling DeepSeek and Qwen
IBM Granite
Notable Open Models
- 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
OLMo (Ai2)
Notable Open Models
- 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
Hunyuan (Tencent)
Notable Open Models
- Open-weight large text MoE models (Hunyuan A13B/Hy3 series) with permissive commercial license
- Hunyuan3D line for fast image-to-3D generation (under 1 second)
- Hy-MT translation models covering dozens of language pairs
Falcon (TII)
Notable Open Models
- Falcon H1 hybrid transformer-Mamba architecture for efficient long-context inference
- Falcon Mamba: pure state-space model variant, no attention layers
- Free commercial use under TII's permissive open license
EXAONE (LG AI Research)
Notable Open Models
- 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
MiniMax M2 (open weights)
Notable Open Models
- Open-weight MoE text/reasoning model line distinct from MiniMax's Hailuo video product already listed
- Actively iterated through 2026 (M2.1, M2.5, M2.7 checkpoints)
- Competitive on agentic coding and tool-use benchmarks among open Chinese models
Phi (Microsoft)
Notable Open Models
- MIT-licensed small language models optimized for on-device and edge deployment
- Phi-4-mini and Phi-4-multimodal handle text, vision and audio in one small model
- Distributed via Azure AI Foundry, Hugging Face, and Ollama
Nemotron (NVIDIA)
Notable Open Models
- NVIDIA's open post-trained/distilled model family built on Llama and NVIDIA's own architectures
- Includes top-ranked open embedding models (Nemotron Embed, Llama-Embed-Nemotron)
- OpenReasoning-Nemotron: distilled reasoning models for local/edge inference
Notable Open Models — straight answers
What are the best free open-weight AI models?
Flocci AI Tools lists 16 open-weight AI models, ordered free tiers first: DeepSeek Models, EXAONE (LG AI Research), Falcon (TII), Gemma (Google) and GPT-OSS (OpenAI). All of them are free or have a free tier. Every entry states what it uniquely does, not a score.
Are there completely free open-weight AI models?
Yes — 15 of these are marked fully free with no paid plan attached: DeepSeek Models, EXAONE (LG AI Research), Falcon (TII), Gemma (Google) and GPT-OSS (OpenAI). The rest are freemium, trial or paid, and each row states which.
What should I look for in open-weight AI models?
Start with what you need to do: download weights you can inspect, fine-tune and self-host. Then check the pricing tier, because "free" here means no paid plan at all while "freemium" means a free tier under paid plans. Every tool on this page lists both.
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