Reasoning, coding, OCR, long context, and multimodal tasks reward different model families.
Open models by workload and deployment path
Browse models by the work they are likely to power: reasoning, coding, multimodal understanding, OCR, local inference, and self-hosted agent stacks.
Open weights, hosted API access, local runtimes, and self-hosting change cost and data control.
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Reasoning and coding models
Models to test for planning, code changes, technical review, and tool-heavy agent prompts.
DeepSeek-R1
Open reasoning model family for developers testing long-form reasoning, coding, and local AI workflows.
Open sourceLocal firstSelf-hosted
Rapid-MLX
Apple Silicon local AI engine with OpenAI-compatible API, tool calling, prompt cache, and MLX acceleration.
Open sourceLocal first
Gemma 4 12B
Google DeepMind's 12B open multimodal model for local agentic workflows on laptops.
Open sourceLocal firstSelf-hosted
DeepSeek V4
Open DeepSeek V4 model family for million-token context, coding, reasoning, and agent workflows.
Open sourceLocal firstSelf-hostedAPI
GLM-5
Open model line from Z.ai focused on agentic engineering and longer coding workflows.
Open source
GLM-OCR
Open OCR model and pipeline for turning complex document images into usable text.
Open source
Qwen3-VL
Open vision-language model family for images, screens, documents, and multimodal workflows.
Open source
Qwen3.6
Qwen's open model line focused on stronger coding, agentic tasks, and real-world stability.
Open source
Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI's open-weight multimodal model for agentic and tool-using workflows.
Multimodal, OCR, and document models
Models for image understanding, documents, screenshots, OCR, and visual agent workflows.
Gemma 4
Google DeepMind's open model family for local, multimodal, and agentic AI workflows.
Open sourceLocal firstSelf-hostedAPI
Gemma 4 12B
Google DeepMind's 12B open multimodal model for local agentic workflows on laptops.
Open sourceLocal firstSelf-hosted
GLM-OCR
Open OCR model and pipeline for turning complex document images into usable text.
Open source
Qwen3-VL
Open vision-language model family for images, screens, documents, and multimodal workflows.
Open source
Local and self-hosted models
Open-weight candidates for teams that care about privacy, reproducibility, and deployment control.
DeepSeek-R1
Open reasoning model family for developers testing long-form reasoning, coding, and local AI workflows.
Open sourceLocal firstSelf-hosted
gpt4all
Run large language models locally on consumer hardware with a desktop application and Python library.
Open source
FinGPT
Open-source financial large language model project for finance sentiment, analysis, and domain adaptation.
Open source
OLMo 2
Fully open language model family from AI2 for transparent research, training, and evaluation.
Open sourceLocal firstSelf-hosted
LiteRT-LM
Google's open-source inference framework for deploying large language models on edge devices.
Open sourceLocal first
Rapid-MLX
Apple Silicon local AI engine with OpenAI-compatible API, tool calling, prompt cache, and MLX acceleration.
Open sourceLocal first
Gemma 4
Google DeepMind's open model family for local, multimodal, and agentic AI workflows.
Open sourceLocal firstSelf-hostedAPI
Gemma 4 12B
Google DeepMind's 12B open multimodal model for local agentic workflows on laptops.
Open sourceLocal firstSelf-hosted
DeepSeek V4
Open DeepSeek V4 model family for million-token context, coding, reasoning, and agent workflows.
Open sourceLocal firstSelf-hostedAPI
GLM-5
Open model line from Z.ai focused on agentic engineering and longer coding workflows.
Open source
GLM-OCR
Open OCR model and pipeline for turning complex document images into usable text.
Open source
Mistral Small 3.2
Apache-licensed small open model for practical instruction following, local inference, and agent experiments.
Open sourceLocal firstSelf-hostedAPI
Qwen3-VL
Open vision-language model family for images, screens, documents, and multimodal workflows.
Open source
Qwen3.6
Qwen's open model line focused on stronger coding, agentic tasks, and real-world stability.
Open source
Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI's open-weight multimodal model for agentic and tool-using workflows.
Compact and general-purpose candidates
Useful baselines for cheaper inference, edge experiments, and broad assistant workloads.
OLMo 2
Fully open language model family from AI2 for transparent research, training, and evaluation.
Open sourceLocal firstSelf-hosted
Gemma 4
Google DeepMind's open model family for local, multimodal, and agentic AI workflows.
Open sourceLocal firstSelf-hostedAPI
Gemma 4 12B
Google DeepMind's 12B open multimodal model for local agentic workflows on laptops.
Open sourceLocal firstSelf-hosted
Mistral Small 3.2
Apache-licensed small open model for practical instruction following, local inference, and agent experiments.
Open sourceLocal firstSelf-hostedAPI