Free AI Models: Daily LLM Rankings

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

Last updated: 2026-08-11

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	-	-	reasoning	256000	Try model
OpenRouter	openai/gpt-oss-20b:free OpenAI	-	-	text	131072	Try model
OpenRouter	google/gemma-4-31b-it:free Google	-	-	text	262144	Try model
OpenRouter	google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free Google	-	-	text	262144	Try model
OpenRouter	nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free nvidia	-	-	text	256000	Try model
OpenRouter	nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free nvidia	#180	-	text	262144	Try model
OpenRouter	nvidia/nemotron-nano-9b-v2:free nvidia	-	-	text	128000	Try model
OpenRouter	poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free poolside	-	-	text	262144	Try model
OpenRouter	nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free nvidia	-	-	text	1000000	Try model
OpenRouter	cohere/north-mini-code:free cohere	-	-	text	256000	Try model
OpenRouter	nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free nvidia	-	-	text	1000000	Try model
OpenRouter	poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free poolside	-	-	text	262144	Try model
OpenRouter	inclusionai/ling-3.0-tiny:free inclusionai	-	-	text	262144	Try model
OpenRouter	nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety:free nvidia	-	-	text	128000	Try model
OpenRouter	nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:free nvidia	-	-	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	Kwai-Kolors/Kolors Kwai-Kolors	-	-	text	-	Try model
SiliconFlow	TeleAI/TeleSpeechASR TeleAI	-	-	text	-	Try model
SiliconFlow	BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-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-m3 BAAI	-	-	text	-	Try model
SiliconFlow	FunAudioLLM/SenseVoiceSmall FunAudioLLM	-	-	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. 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.