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A range spanning demanding reasoning, balanced work, and smaller focused tasks.

API / supported ChatGPT and Codex experiences

Availability varies by product, plan, client, and workspace. API usage and app subscriptions have separate charging rules.

The newest 5.5 releases span small, middle, and larger model classes. Fable and restricted Mythos lines also exist.

Claude / API

A family name is not a benchmark. Compare a specific version and effort setting.

Argon reached API general availability on October 13. Gemini app notes separately announce a rollout to Google AI Pro and Ultra. Other Gemini variants serve different tasks.

Gemini app / API / AI Studio

App and API access differ. Provider pages have inconsistent Pro wording; check the current plan and model picker.

API model catalog

The current release emphasizes coding and knowledge work.

Grok / API

Product browsing, connectors, and the underlying model are separate parts of the experience.

Wonder is available through Meta Model API and Muse Code; Wonder Full is offered to Muse Code subscribers. Glimmer is a separate open-weight release.

Meta Model API / Muse Code / other Meta products and downloads

Broader Wonder access inside Muse is still a planned rollout. Confirm the variant and terms; not every Meta model is downloadable.

Muse Glimmer source

The 27B variant supplies the local Qwen examples in our model lab. The family also contains much larger models.

Qwen / local runtimes / API

Our samples use MLX 5-bit quantization and a 16k loaded context; other setups will vary.

The release supports image and text understanding; the API changelog documents routing changes.

DeepSeek / API / compatible runtimes

Open weights can still require large-scale infrastructure. Record the actual model version.

Large 4 is in public preview. Mistral’s changelog still says downloadable weights are coming; its Vibe product includes a Chat mode for the legacy Le Chat experience.

Vibe / Mistral Studio

We have not verified downloadable weights for the Large 4 preview. Check the release changelog before planning a local installation.

Release changelog

A very large multimodal model with its own model license.

Kimi / API / compatible runtimes

Open-weight access is not a promise of personal-computer compatibility.

GLM-5.3 builds on the GLM-5.2 base through post-training. GLM-5.3-Flash uses a new multimodal base; it is not just a renamed setting.

Z.ai / API / compatible runtimes

GLM-5.3 and Flash have separate model cards and licenses. Download size, runtime support, hosted access, and app permissions need separate checks.

GLM-5.3-Flash model card

A separate family from Gemini, with language and specialized embedding releases.

Local runtimes / developer tools

An embedding model retrieves or represents information; it is not a replacement chat assistant.

IBM’s August release includes 3B, 8B, and 30B language-model sizes.

Compatible runtimes / enterprise tools

Verify runtime support and memory needs for the particular download.

Command A+ is a general enterprise model; North Small Translate is a specialized translation model. Their download terms differ.

Cohere / model deployments

Command A+ is released under Apache 2.0. North Small Translate uses CC BY-NC 4.0 for non-commercial use; check the relevant terms before business deployment.

North Small Translate terms

A newly announced coding and reasoning model, with final evaluations underway.

Early access

We have not verified public downloadable weights; do not plan a local installation yet.

NVIDIA’s August 11 release pairs the open Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model with NeMo Switchyard for routing requests among models.

NVIDIA / compatible runtimes

Provider speed claims and hosted benchmarks do not predict performance on your own hardware.

Microsoft’s Phi page describes a family of smaller open models for a range of deployment settings.

Azure / compatible runtimes

This is a model-family guide, not a verified latest-release claim. Check the particular model card and supported runtime.

Ai2 publishes open research artifacts across language, vision, and specialized models. Its October 7 Bolmo update adds new byte-level checkpoints.

Research downloads / compatible runtimes

Check the exact model’s purpose and release materials; openness has several dimensions.

The catalog spans language, video, speech, and music. M3 has an official weight repository and a model-specific community license.

MiniMax apps / APIs / model downloads

Check the exact model’s terms, hardware needs, and custom loading code; not every product in the catalog is an open-weight release.

The official model card identifies this as the flagship checkpoint in the MiMo-V2.6 series.

MiMo / API / compatible runtimes

A large open checkpoint needs substantial infrastructure; this is not a laptop recommendation.