Best Free LLMs (2026)

Free-to-use large language models with open weights you can run locally or via free-tier APIs. Ranked by MMLU to surface the most capable free options first.

#	Model	MMLU	Context	Input $/1M	Output $/1M
1	Llama 3.1 405B	88.6%	128K	—	—
2	DeepSeek V3 Tools	88.5%	64k	$0.10	$0.28
3	Qwen2.5 72B	88.2%	128K	$0.20	$0.60
4	Qwen2.5 32B Instruct	86.1%	128K	$0.15	$0.15
5	Llama 3.1 70B Instruct	86%	128K	$0.40	$0.40
6	Mixtral 8x22B v0.1	84.5%	64K	GPU·hr	$1.00
7	Falcon 180B	84.2%	—	—	—
8	Qwen2.5 14B Instruct	84.2%	128K	$0.08	$0.08
9	Qwen2 72B	84.2%	128K	$0.45	$0.65
10	Mistral Large 2 VisionTools	84%	128K	$0.48	$1.50
11	Gemma 2 27B Instruct	82.3%	8K	GPU·hr	$1.00
12	Llama 3 70B Instruct	82%	8K	$0.40	$0.40
13	Mistral NeMo Instruct (2407)	81.5%	128K	GPU·hr	$1.00
14	Qwen2.5 7B Instruct	81.2%	128K	$0.04	$0.04
15	Qwen2 7B	80.2%	128K	$0.05	$0.15
16	Mixtral 8x7B	80.2%	32K	$0.15	$0.20
17	Qwen1.5-72B	79.8%	—	$0.65	$0.90
18	DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite	78.9%	128K	$0.50	$0.50
19	Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 Tools	78.9%	32K	$0.20	$0.20
20	Qwen1.5-110B	78.2%	—	$1.50	$1.80

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