Comparison of Open Source Models

Comparison and analysis of open source AI models across key performance metrics including quality, performance, inference speed, context window, parameter count & licensing details.

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.

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Z AI logoGLM-5.3 (max) and Kimi logoKimi K3 (max) are the highest intelligence open source models, followed by Z AI logoGLM-5.3-Flash & Alibaba logoQwen3.8 2.4T A95B.

Highlights

Artificial Analysis Openness Index · Higher is better
Updated
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better
Trainable parameters in billions

Openness

Artificial Analysis Openness Index: Score

Openness Index assesses model openness on a 0 to 100 normalized scale (higher is more open)

Open Source Progress

Progress in Open Weights vs. Proprietary Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase, GDPval-AA v2, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench v4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1

Open Source Language Models Intelligence By Lab Over Time

Open Source Models Intelligence By Size Over Time

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase, GDPval-AA v2, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench v4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase, GDPval-AA v2, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench v4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1
Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)

Intelligence Evaluations

Intelligence evaluations measured independently by Artificial Analysis · Higher is better
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Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000

Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000

Agentic SaaS workflows

Agentic coding & terminal use

Coding

Reasoning & knowledge

Professional document reasoning, All-pass

Physics reasoning

Long context reasoning

Legal agentic work, criterion pass rate

Agentic business operations

Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents

Instruction following

Agentic tool use

Long-horizon agentic tasks

Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis

Visual reasoning

Size

Intelligence Index By Model Size

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase, GDPval-AA v2, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench v4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1
Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)

Model Size: Total and Active Parameters

Comparison between total model parameters and parameters active during inference

Intelligence Index vs. Active Parameters

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Active parameters at inference time
Most attractive quadrant
Pareto line

Intelligence Index vs. Total Parameters

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Size in parameters (billions)
Most attractive quadrant
Pareto line

Context Window

Context Window

Context window: tokens limit · Higher is better

Further details

Weights
Provider Benchmarks
GLM-5.3 (max)
Z AI logoZ AI
45
753B
40B active at inference time
1M
$0.9
61
ZaiSelf-hostedDeepInfra
+14
Kimi K3 (max)
Kimi logoKimi
44
2.8T
104B active at inference time
1M
$2.3
38
ModalTogether AIDigitalOcean
+11
GLM-5.3-Flash
Z AI logoZ AI
42
320B
18B active at inference time
1M
$0.1
98
ZaiBasetenNovita
+16
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Alibaba logoAlibaba
40
2.4T
95B active at inference time
984k
$1.2
38
FireworksTogether AIDeepInfra
+3
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Reasoning, Max Effort)
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek
40
552B
16B active at inference time
1M
$0.2
206
DeepSeekBaseten
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Reasoning, Max Effort)
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek
36
1.6T
49B active at inference time
1M
$0.7
72
DeepSeekGMISiliconFlow
+7
Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh)
Alibaba logoAlibaba
34
27B
256k
$0.4
39
DeepInfraSelf-hostedCoreWeave
+5
K2 Horizon 375B A23B
MBZUAI Institute of Foundation Models logoMBZUAI Institute of Foundation Models
31
375B
23B active at inference time
524k
-
-
-
MiniMax-M3
MiniMax logoMiniMax
30
428B
23B active at inference time
1M
$0.2
88
ParasailCoreWeaveTogether AI
+12
Inkling (xhigh)
Thinking Machines logoThinking Machines
26
975B
41B active at inference time
1M
$0.7
76
Self-hostedDeepInfraBaseten
+3
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)
NVIDIA logoNVIDIA
23
550B
55B active at inference time
262k
$0.5
165
CoreWeaveGMIDeepInfra
+6
Muse Glimmer (high)
Meta logoMeta
18
30B
131k
$0.2
89
Together AIDeepInfraFireworks
Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral logoMistral
15
128B
256k
$1.2
139
MistralSelf-hosted
gpt-oss-120b (high)
OpenAI logoOpenAI
12
117B
5.1B active at inference time
131k
$0.2
189
GroqCloudflareScaleway
+17