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Comparisons of Small Open Source AI Models (4B-40B)

Open source AI models with less than 40 billion parameters. Models are considered Open Source (also commonly referred to as open weights) where their weights are accessible to download. This allows self-hosting on your own infrastructure and enables customizing the model such as through fine-tuning. Click on any model to see detailed metrics. For more details including relating to our methodology, see our FAQs.

Alibaba logoQwen3 30B 2507 (Reasoning) and OpenAI logogpt-oss-20B (high) are the highest intelligence Small open source models, defined as those with 4B-40B parameters, followed by LG AI Research logoEXAONE 4.0 32B (Reasoning) & Alibaba logoQwQ-32B.

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All Open Source Models
Large Models (>150B)
Medium Models (40B-150B)
Small Models (4B-40B)
Tiny Models (<4B)
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Alibaba logo
Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 (Reasoning)
Alibaba
53
30.5B
(3.3B active at inference time)
32.8k
$0.8
110
🤗
Alibaba Cloud
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OpenAI logo
gpt-oss-20B
OpenAI
51
21B
(3.6B active at inference time)
131k
$0.1
297
🤗
Novita
Amazon Bedrock
Groq
+4 more
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LG AI Research logo
EXAONE 4.0 32B (Reasoning)
LG AI Research
51
32B
131k
$0.7
97
🤗
FriendliAI
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Alibaba logo
QwQ 32B
Alibaba
48
32.8B
131k
$0.5
54
🤗
Nebius
Nebius
GMI
+3 more
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Alibaba logo
Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 (Non-reasoning)
Alibaba
46
30.5B
(3.3B active at inference time)
32.8k
$0.3
106
🤗
Alibaba Cloud
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Alibaba logo
Qwen3 14B (Reasoning)
Alibaba
45
14.8B
32.8k
$1.3
54
🤗
Alibaba Cloud
Nebius
Deepinfra
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Alibaba logo
Qwen3 32B (Reasoning)
Alibaba
44
32.8B
32.8k
$2.6
64
🤗
GMI
Alibaba Cloud
Parasail
+6 more
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Alibaba logo
Qwen3 30B A3B (Reasoning)
Alibaba
42
30.5B
(3.3B active at inference time)
32.8k
$0.8
77
🤗
Novita
Deepinfra
Nebius
+4 more
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DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B
DeepSeek
42
8.19B
32.8k
$0.1
92
🤗
Novita
Parasail
View
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
DeepSeek
41
32B
128k
$0.3
32
🤗
Deepinfra
Novita
GMI
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Alibaba logo
Qwen3 8B (Reasoning)
Alibaba
41
8.19B
32.8k
$0.7
99
🤗
Novita
Alibaba Cloud
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LG AI Research logo
EXAONE 4.0 32B
LG AI Research
40
32B
131k
$0.7
89
Not available
FriendliAI
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DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
DeepSeek
38
14B
128k
$0.2
85
🤗
GMI
Novita
Together.ai
View
Alibaba logo
Qwen3 4B (Reasoning)
Alibaba
36
4.02B
32.0k
$0.4
105
🤗
Novita
Alibaba Cloud
Nebius
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Reka AI logo
Reka Flash 3
Reka AI
36
21B
128k
$0.3
56
🤗
Reka AI
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Mistral logo
Magistral Small
Mistral
36
23.6B
40.0k
$0.8
207
🤗
Mistral
View
NVIDIA logo
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)
NVIDIA
34
4.51B
128k
-
-
🤗
-
View
Alibaba logo
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B
Alibaba
33
30.5B
(3.3B active at inference time)
262k
$0.9
114
🤗
Alibaba Cloud
Fireworks
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Mistral logo
Mistral Small 3.2
Mistral
32
24B
128k
$0.1
171
🤗
Mistral
Deepinfra
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Alibaba logo
QwQ 32B-Preview
Alibaba
32
32.8B
32.8k
$0.7
50
🤗
Deepinfra
Together.ai
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Alibaba logo
Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba
30
30.5B
(3.3B active at inference time)
32.8k
$0.3
84
🤗
Alibaba Cloud
View
Alibaba logo
Qwen3 14B
Alibaba
30
14.8B
32.8k
$0.6
55
🤗
Alibaba Cloud
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Alibaba logo
Qwen3 32B
Alibaba
30
32.8B
32.8k
$1.2
64
🤗
Parasail
SambaNova
Nebius
+6 more
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Microsoft Azure logo
Phi-4
Microsoft Azure
28
14B
16.0k
$0.2
41
🤗
Microsoft Azure
Nebius
Deepinfra
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Alibaba logo
Qwen2.5 Instruct 32B
Alibaba
26
32B
128k
$0.1
-
🤗
Nebius
Nebius
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Alibaba logo
Qwen3 8B
Alibaba
25
8.19B
32.8k
$0.3
100
🤗
Alibaba Cloud
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Google logo
Gemma 3 27B Instruct
Google
25
27.4B
128k
-
58
🤗
Deepinfra
Parasail
Google
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Alibaba logo
Qwen2.5 Coder Instruct 32B
Alibaba
25
32B
131k
$0.1
53
🤗
Together.ai
Hyperbolic
Lambda
+1 more
View
Google logo
Gemma 3 12B Instruct
Google
24
12.2B
128k
$0.1
-
🤗
Deepinfra
View
Mistral logo
Mistral Small 3.1
Mistral
24
24B
128k
$0.1
148
🤗
Parasail
Google
Mistral
View
Mistral logo
Mistral Small 3
Mistral
24
24B
32.0k
$0.1
59
🤗
Deepinfra
Mistral
Together.ai
View
Alibaba logo
Qwen3 4B
Alibaba
24
4.02B
32.0k
$0.2
107
🤗
Alibaba Cloud
View
Mistral logo
Devstral Small (May '25)
Mistral
23
23.6B
256k
$0.1
101
🤗
Mistral
Deepinfra
View
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
DeepSeek
23
8B
128k
$0.0
48
🤗
Novita
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Upstage logo
Solar Mini
Upstage
22
10.7B
4.10k
$0.1
83
🤗
Upstage
View
Mistral logo
Devstral Small (Jul '25)
Mistral
21
24B
256k
$0.1
154
🤗
Mistral
Nebius
Deepinfra
View
Google logo
Gemma 2 27B
Google
20
27.2B
8.19k
$0.8
-
🤗
Together.ai
View
Google logo
Gemma 3n E4B Instruct
Google
18
8.39B
(4.0B active at inference time)
32.0k
$0.0
82
🤗
Together.ai
View
Nous Research logo
DeepHermes 3 - Mistral 24B Preview
Nous Research
18
24B
32.0k
-
-
🤗
-
View
IBM logo
Granite 3.3 Instruct 8B
IBM
18
8.17B
128k
-
-
🤗
-
View
Mistral logo
Mistral Small (Sep '24)
Mistral
16
22B
32.8k
$0.3
96
🤗
Mistral
View
Google logo
Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)
Google
15
8.39B
(4B active at inference time)
32.0k
-
-
🤗
-
View
Microsoft Azure logo
Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct
Microsoft Azure
15
5.6B
128k
-
22
🤗
Microsoft Azure
View
Alibaba logo
Qwen2.5 Coder Instruct 7B
Alibaba
15
7.62B
131k
-
-
🤗
-
View
Meta logo
Llama 2 Chat 7B
Meta
14
7B
4.10k
$0.1
132
🤗
Replicate
View
Google logo
Gemma 3 4B Instruct
Google
14
4.3B
128k
$0.0
-
🤗
Deepinfra
View
Meta logo
Llama 3.2 Instruct 11B (Vision)
Meta
13
11B
128k
$0.1
60
🤗
Amazon Bedrock
Deepinfra
View
Microsoft Azure logo
Phi-3 Medium Instruct 14B
Microsoft Azure
13
14B
128k
$0.3
53
🤗
Microsoft Azure
View
Meta logo
Llama 3.1 Instruct 8B
Meta
12
8B
128k
$0.1
226
🤗
FriendliAI
Microsoft Azure
?
+14 more
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Mistral logo
Pixtral 12B (2409)
Mistral
11
12B
128k
$0.1
99
🤗
Mistral
Hyperbolic
View
Google logo
Gemma 3n E2B Instruct
Google
10
5.98B
(2.0B active at inference time)
32.0k
-
57
🤗
Google
View
Mistral logo
Ministral 8B
Mistral
10
8B
128k
$0.1
185
🤗
Mistral
View
Google logo
Gemma 2 9B
Google
10
9B
8.19k
$0.2
-
🤗
Nebius
Fireworks
Groq
View
Meta logo
Llama 3 Instruct 8B
Meta
9
8B
8.19k
$0.1
104
🤗
?
Novita
Microsoft Azure
+4 more
View
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite Instruct
DeepSeek
8
16B
(2.4B active at inference time)
128k
-
-
🤗
-
View
Mistral logo
Codestral (May '24)
Mistral
8
22B
32.8k
$0.3
-
🤗
Mistral
View
Cohere logo
Aya Expanse 32B
Cohere
8
32B
128k
$0.8
121
🤗
Cohere
View
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek LLM 67B Chat (V1)
DeepSeek
8
7B
4.10k
-
-
🤗
-
View
Meta logo
Llama 2 Chat 13B
Meta
8
13B
4.10k
-
-
🤗
-
View
OpenChat logo
OpenChat 3.5 (1210)
OpenChat
8
7B
8.19k
-
-
🤗
-
View
Mistral logo
Mistral NeMo
Mistral
8
12B
128k
$0.1
184
🤗
Deepinfra
Nebius
Mistral
+1 more
View
Nous Research logo
DeepHermes 3 - Llama-3.1 8B Preview
Nous Research
4
8B
128k
-
-
🤗
-
View
Cohere logo
Aya Expanse 8B
Cohere
4
8B
8.00k
$0.8
167
🤗
Cohere
View
Cohere logo
Command-R (Aug '24)
Cohere
3
32B
128k
$0.3
72
🤗
Cohere
Amazon Bedrock
View
Cohere logo
Command-R (Mar '24)
Cohere
2
35B
128k
$0.8
173
🤗
Amazon Bedrock
Cohere
View
Mistral logo
Codestral-Mamba
Mistral
2
7B
256k
-
-
🤗
-
View
Mistral logo
Mistral 7B Instruct
Mistral
1
7B
8.19k
$0.3
127
🤗
Amazon Bedrock
?
Novita
+3 more
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