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Best Open-Source LLMs in October 2026

As of October 2026, Kimi K3 leads the Noometry Index with a score of 59.5, ahead of GLM-5.3 at 54.8.

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Best Open-Source LLMs: top 10
  1. Kimi K3 59.5
  2. GLM-5.3 54.8
  3. DeepSeek V4 Pro 54.3
  4. DeepSeek V4 Flash 53.6
  5. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 52.8
  6. GLM-5.3-Flash 51.8
  7. GLM-5.2 51.1
  8. MiMo-V2.6-Pro 50.3
  9. MiMo-V2.6-Flash 48.5
  10. Kimi K2.5 48.1

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Best Open-Source LLMs
1 Moonshot AI Kimi K3Moonshot AIOpen1.05M59.5 $3 $15 9.92—
2 Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5.3Z.ai (Zhipu)Open1M54.8 $1.40 $4.40 25.5—
3 DeepSeek DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeekOpen1M54.3 $0.66 $1.98 54.916
4 DeepSeek DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeekOpen1M53.6 $0.15 $0.60 2046
5 DeepSeek DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeekOpen1M52.8 $0.15 $0.60 201—
6 Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5.3-FlashZ.ai (Zhipu)Open1M51.8 $0.15 $0.50 218—
7 Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5.2Z.ai (Zhipu)Open1M51.1 $1.40 $4.40 23.823
8 Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomiOpen1.05M50.3 $0.43 $0.87 92.5—
9 Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomiOpen1.05M48.5 $0.14 $0.28 277—
10 Moonshot AI Kimi K2.5Moonshot AIOpen262K48.1 $0.45 $2.25 53.466
11 Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5.1Z.ai (Zhipu)Open200K47.8 $1.40 $4.40 22.2—
12 Moonshot AI Kimi K2.6Moonshot AIOpen262K47.7 $0.95 $4 27.8—
13 Thinking Machines Lab Inkling-SmallThinking Machines LabOpen524K46.5 $0.45 $1.20 72.9—
14 Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5Z.ai (Zhipu)Open205K46.1 $1 $3.20 29.723
15 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.5 397B-A17BAlibaba (Qwen)Open262K46.0 $0.60 $3.60 34.19
16 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.8 27BAlibaba (Qwen)Open262K46.0 $0.99 $1.49 41.2—
17 Moonshot AI Kimi K2 Thinking TurboMoonshot AIOpen—45.8 — — ——
18 Tencent Hy4 previewTencentOpen1.05M45.3 $0.75 $2.25 40.2—
19 Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomiOpen1.05M45.2 $0.43 $0.87 83.2—
20 DeepSeek DeepSeek-V3.2-ExpDeepSeekOpen164K44.3 $0.26 $0.38 15316
21 Tencent Hy3TencentOpen262K44.2 $0.0825 $0.33 306—
22 Thinking Machines Lab InklingThinking Machines LabOpen66K44.1 $1.87 $4.68 17.1—
23 MiniMax MiniMax-M3MiniMaxOpen1M43.8 $0.30 $1.20 83.4—
24 Moonshot AI Kimi K2.5 InstantMoonshot AIOpen—43.6 — — ——
25 Google Gemma 4 31B ITGoogleOpen262K43.5 $0.09 $0.34 2863
26 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3 235B-A22BAlibaba (Qwen)Open131K43.5 $0.70 $2.80 35.585
27 Google Gemma 4 26B A4B ITGoogleOpen262K43.5 $0.0675 $0.23 407—
28 Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5XiaomiOpen1.05M43.4 $0.14 $0.28 248—
29 Moonshot AI Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot AIOpen262K43.3 $0.95 $4 25.3—
30 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3-VL 235B-A22BAlibaba (Qwen)Open131K43.2 $0.70 $2.80 35.3—
31 DeepSeek DeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusDeepSeekOpen164K43.1 $0.27 $1 95.430
32 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B InstructAlibaba (Qwen)Open131K43.0 $0.50 $2 49.2111
33 DeepSeek DeepSeek-V3.1DeepSeekOpen164K42.8 $0.25 $0.95 101328
34 NVIDIA Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIAOpen262K42.5 $0.50 $2.20 45.9—
35 StepFun Step 3.5 FlashStepFunOpen256K42.3 $0.10 $0.30 282—
36 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.6 27BAlibaba (Qwen)Open262K42.2 $0.60 $3.60 31.3—
37 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.5 122B-A10BAlibaba (Qwen)Open262K42.1 $0.40 $3.20 38.3—
38 Meituan Longcat Flash ChatMeituanOpen—42.1 — — —69
39 Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.5Z.ai (Zhipu)Open131K42.0 $0.60 $2.20 4232
40 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.5 35B-A3BAlibaba (Qwen)Open262K42.0 $0.25 $2 61—
41 Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.7Z.ai (Zhipu)Open205K42.0 $0.60 $2.20 42—
42 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.5 27BAlibaba (Qwen)Open262K41.9 $0.30 $2.40 50.7—
43 IBM Granite 4.2 30bIBMOpen—41.8 — — ——
44 Meta Muse GlimmerMetaOpen—41.7 — — ——
45 Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.6Z.ai (Zhipu)Open205K41.4 $0.60 $2.20 41.412
46 Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.6VZ.ai (Zhipu)Open128K41.3 $0.30 $0.90 91.8—
47 Xiaomi MiMo-V2-FlashXiaomiOpen262K41.3 $0.14 $0.28 236—
48 Moonshot AI Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)Moonshot AIOpen262K41.2 $0.57 $2.30 41.1201
49 NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNVIDIAOpen262K40.6 $0.05 $0.20 464—
50 IBM Granite 4.2 8BIBMOpen131K40.5 $0.06 $0.25 377—
51 StepFun Step 3StepFunOpen—40.5 — — —7
52 MiniMax MiniMax M1MiniMaxOpen1M40.3 $0.55 $2.20 41.9—
53 NVIDIA Nvidia Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49b v1.5NVIDIAOpen131K40.3 $0.40 $0.40 101—
54 Mistral AI Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AIOpen262K40.2 $1.50 $7.50 13.450
55 NVIDIA Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIAOpen262K40.1 $0.08 $0.45 233—
56 NVIDIA Llama 3.3 Nemotron 49b Super v1NVIDIAOpen—40.1 — — ——
57 NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIAOpen262K40.0 $0.05 $0.20 457—
58 Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.5VZ.ai (Zhipu)Open64K39.8 $0.60 $1.80 44.234
59 Alibaba (Qwen) QwQ-32BAlibaba (Qwen)Open—39.8 — — ——
60 DeepSeek DeepSeek-V3.2-SpecialeDeepSeekOpen128K39.7 $0.58 $1.68 46.4—
61 DeepSeek DeepSeek-V3DeepSeekOpen164K39.5 $0.24 $0.90 97.573
62 Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Olmo 3.1 32b InstructAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Open—39.4 — — ——
63 IBM Granite 4.2 3bIBMOpen—39.4 — — ——
64 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3 32BAlibaba (Qwen)Open131K39.2 $0.70 $2.80 3286
65 Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Molmo 2 8bAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Open—39.1 — — ——
66 Mistral AI Mistral Large 3Mistral AIOpen262K39.1 $0.25 $0.75 1047
67 Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.5-AirZ.ai (Zhipu)Open131K38.9 $0.20 $1.10 91.6160
68 MiniMax MiniMax-M2.1MiniMaxOpen205K38.9 $0.30 $1.20 74.2—
69 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3-30B-A3BAlibaba (Qwen)Open41K38.9 $0.12 $0.50 18142
70 Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.7-FlashZ.ai (Zhipu)Open200K38.8 $0.06 $0.40 268—
71 Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Olmo 3 32b ThinkAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Open—38.7 — — ——
72 Arcee AI Trinity Large ThinkingArcee AIOpen262K38.6 $0.25 $0.80 99.7—
73 MiniMax MiniMax-M2.5MiniMaxOpen205K38.3 $0.30 $1.20 7349
74 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B InstructAlibaba (Qwen)Open262K38.1 $1.50 $7.50 12.767
75 Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Olmo 3.1 32b ThinkAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Open—37.9 — — ——
76 DeepSeek DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70BDeepSeekOpen—37.8 — — —18
77 MiniMax MiniMax-M2.7MiniMaxOpen205K37.7 $0.30 $1.20 71.9—
78 DeepSeek DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)DeepSeekOpen—37.6 — — ——
79 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.6 35B-A3BAlibaba (Qwen)Open262K37.6 $0.25 $1.49 67.5—
80 NVIDIA Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b InstructNVIDIAOpen—37.6 — — ——
81 MiniMax MiniMax-M2MiniMaxOpen205K37.4 $0.30 $1.20 71.217
82 IBM Granite 4.1 8bIBMOpen—37.4 — — ——
83 Google Gemma 3n E4b ITGoogleOpen—37.3 — — —13
84 StepFun Step 3.7 FlashStepFunOpen256K37.3 $0.18 $1.11 89.6—
85 NVIDIA Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1NVIDIAOpen—36.7 — — ——
86 IBM Granite 4.0 H SmallIBMOpen—36.5 — — ——
87 Cohere Command ACohereOpen256K36.5 $2.50 $10 8.3328
88 OpenAI gpt-oss-120bOpenAIOpen131K36.3 $0.037 $0.17 51755
89 Mistral AI Mistral MediumMistral AIOpen262K36.3 $1.50 $7.50 12.168
90 DeepSeek Deepseek Coder v2DeepSeekOpen—35.9 — — ——
91 Cohere C4ai Aya Expanse 32bCohereOpen128K35.9 — — ——
92 NVIDIA Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b InstructNVIDIAOpen—35.9 — — ——
93 NVIDIA Nemotron 4 340b InstructNVIDIAOpen—35.9 — — ——
94 Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8bAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Open—35.7 — — ——
95 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3 14BAlibaba (Qwen)Open131K35.5 $0.35 $1.40 57.979
96 DeepSeek DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32BDeepSeekOpen—35.5 — — ——
97 Mistral AI Magistral MediumMistral AIOpen262K35.2 $2 $5 12.80
98 Cohere C4ai Aya Expanse 8bCohereOpen—34.9 — — ——
99 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3 Coder NextAlibaba (Qwen)Open262K34.3 $0.12 $0.80 118—
100 Mistral AI Devstral Small 2505Mistral AIOpen128K34.3 $0.10 $0.30 22988
101 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen1.5-110BAlibaba (Qwen)Open—34.2 — — ——
102 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.5-9BAlibaba (Qwen)Open262K33.8 $0.10 $0.15 300—
103 Meta Codellama 70b InstructMetaOpen—33.7 — — ——
104 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3 8BAlibaba (Qwen)Open131K33.7 $0.18 $0.70 109—
105 Mistral AI Mistral SmallMistral AIOpen262K33.4 $0.15 $0.60 127120
106 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen2.5-Coder-32BAlibaba (Qwen)Open33K33.4 $0.66 $1 44.8—
107 IBM Granite 3.1 2b InstructIBMOpen—33.2 — — ——
108 Google Gemma 2 2b ITGoogleOpen—33.1 — — ——
109 Microsoft Wizardlm 70bMicrosoftOpen—33.0 — — ——
110 Microsoft Phi 3 Medium 4k InstructMicrosoftOpen—33.0 — — ——
111 Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70BAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Open—33.0 — — ——
112 DeepSeek DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14BDeepSeekOpen—32.7 — — ——
113 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen1.5-14BAlibaba (Qwen)Open—32.7 — — ——
114 Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Olmo 2 0325 32b InstructAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Open—32.7 — — ——
115 OpenAI gpt-oss-20bOpenAIOpen131K32.5 $0.018 $0.09 90396
116 Poolside Laguna M.1PoolsideOpen262K32.5 — — ——
117 Cohere Command R+CohereOpen128K32.4 $2.50 $10 7.41—
118 IBM Granite 3.1 8b InstructIBMOpen—32.4 — — ——
119 Mistral AI Pixtral LargeMistral AIOpen128K32.2 $2 $6 10.7—
120 Technology Innovation Institute Falcon-180BTechnology Innovation InstituteOpen—32.2 — — ——
121 Google Gemma 3 12BGoogleOpen131K32.1 $0.05 $0.15 428—
122 Mistral AI Mistral LargeMistral AIOpen131K31.9 $2 $6 10.6—
123 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3-4BAlibaba (Qwen)Open—31.9 — — ——
124 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen2.5 72B InstructAlibaba (Qwen)Open131K31.9 $1.40 $5.60 13—
125 NVIDIA Llama2 70b Steerlm ChatNVIDIAOpen—31.8 — — ——
126 Mistral AI Mistral Small 3.1Mistral AIOpen128K31.7 $0.35 $0.56 78.8—
127 IBM Granite 3.0 8b InstructIBMOpen—31.6 — — ——
128 Cohere Command RCohereOpen128K31.4 $0.15 $0.60 120—
129 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen1.5-7BAlibaba (Qwen)Open—31.4 — — ——
130 Microsoft Wizardlm 13bMicrosoftOpen—31.4 — — ——
131 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen-14BAlibaba (Qwen)Open—31.4 — — ——
132 Microsoft Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024MicrosoftOpen—31.3 — — ——
133 Google Gemma 1.1 7b ITGoogleOpen—31.3 — — ——
134 Mistral AI Mistral Small 3Mistral AIOpen33K31.2 $0.05 $0.08 543—
135 Microsoft Phi-4MicrosoftOpen128K31.2 $0.07 $0.14 357—
136 Mistral AI Mistral Small 3.2Mistral AIOpen256K31.2 $0.0938 $0.25 23568
137 Meta Llama 4 MaverickMetaOpen128K30.9 $0.19 $0.65 102456
138 Microsoft Phi-4 MiniMicrosoftOpen128K30.9 $0.075 $0.30 235—
139 Google Gemma 3 27BGoogleOpen131K30.8 $0.08 $0.16 30862
140 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen1.5-72BAlibaba (Qwen)Open—30.8 — — ——
141 IBM Granite 3.0 2b InstructIBMOpen—30.8 — — ——
142 Meta Codellama 34b InstructMetaOpen—30.8 — — ——
143 Meta Llama 3.1-405BMetaOpen—30.7 — — —78
144 01.AI Yi-1.5-34B01.AIOpen—30.6 — — ——
145 Meta Llama-3.3-70B-InstructMetaOpen128K30.6 $0.10 $0.32 197—
146 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen1.5-32BAlibaba (Qwen)Open—30.5 — — ——
147 Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Olmo 7b InstructAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Open—30.3 — — ——
148 Mistral AI Magistral SmallMistral AIOpen128K30.2 $0.50 $1.50 40.30
149 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen2.5 32B InstructAlibaba (Qwen)Open131K30.1 $0.70 $2.80 24.6—
150 Google Gemma 7BGoogleOpen—30.0 — — ——
151 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen2-72BAlibaba (Qwen)Open—30.0 — — ——
152 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen2.5-VL 72B InstructAlibaba (Qwen)Open131K29.9 $2.80 $8.40 7.1343
153 Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) OLMo 2 Furious 13BAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Open—29.7 — — ——
154 Microsoft Phi 3 Mini 128k InstructMicrosoftOpen—29.7 — — ——
155 Microsoft phi-3-medium 14BMicrosoftOpen—29.7 — — ——
156 Google Gemma 2BGoogleOpen—29.6 — — ——
157 Meta Llama 3.1-70BMetaOpen128K29.6 $0.40 $0.40 74.1—
158 Meta Llama 2-13BMetaOpen—29.6 — — ——
159 Databricks DBRXDatabricksOpen—29.4 — — ——
160 Google Gemma 2 27BGoogleOpen8K29.4 $0.65 $0.65 45.2—
161 Google Gemma 1.1 2b ITGoogleOpen—29.3 — — ——
162 Microsoft Phi 3 Small 8k InstructMicrosoftOpen—29.3 — — ——
163 Meta Llama 2-7BMetaOpen—29.1 — — ——
164 IBM Granite 4.0 MicroIBMOpen131K29.0 $0.017 $0.11 713—
165 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen2.5 7B InstructAlibaba (Qwen)Open131K29.0 $0.17 $0.70 94.6—
166 Meta Llama 3.2 3BMetaOpen131K28.9 $0.05 $0.33 241—
167 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen1.5 4b ChatAlibaba (Qwen)Open—28.8 — — ——
168 Meta Llama 3-70BMetaOpen—28.8 — — —104
169 Mistral AI Ministral 8BMistral AIOpen262K28.2 $0.15 $0.15 188—
170 Google Gemma 3 4BGoogleOpen131K28.1 $0.04 $0.08 56372
171 Microsoft Phi 3 Mini 4k InstructMicrosoftOpen—27.9 — — ——
172 01.AI Yi-34B01.AIOpen—27.8 — — ——
173 Meta Llama 4 ScoutMetaOpen128K27.7 $0.10 $0.30 184272
174 Meta Llama 3.2 90BMetaOpen—27.5 — — ——
175 Mistral AI Mixtral 8x22BMistral AIOpen64K27.1 $2 $6 9.05—
176 Mistral AI Mixtral 8x7BMistral AIOpen32K27.1 $0.70 $0.70 38.8—
177 Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3-1.7BAlibaba (Qwen)Open—26.6 — — ——
178 Mistral AI Mistral NemoMistral AIOpen128K26.4 $0.15 $0.15 176—
179 Mistral AI Ministral 3BMistral AIOpen131K26.2 $0.10 $0.10 262—
180 DeepSeek DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5BDeepSeekOpen—26.1 — — ——
181 Google Gemma 2 9BGoogleOpen—25.9 — — ——
182 Databricks Dolly 2.0-12bDatabricksOpen—25.5 — — ——
183 Meta Llama 3-8BMetaOpen—25.5 — — ——
184 DeepSeek DeepSeek LLM 67BDeepSeekOpen—24.9 — — ——
185 Meta Llama 13bMetaOpen—24.4 — — ——
186 Meta Llama 2-70BMetaOpen—24.4 — — ——
187 Mistral AI Mistral 7BMistral AIOpen8K23.0 $0.25 $0.25 92.2—
188 Meta Llama 3.1-8BMetaOpen128K23.0 $0.05 $0.08 400—
189 Google Gemma 3 1BGoogleOpen—21.1 — — ——
190 Meta Llama 3.2 1BMetaOpen60K20.1 $0.027 $0.20 286—

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best open-source LLM?

As of October 2026, Kimi K3 leads the Noometry Index with a score of 59.5, ahead of GLM-5.3 at 54.8.

What are the top 5 in this ranking?

Kimi K3, GLM-5.3, DeepSeek V4 Pro, DeepSeek V4 Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, in that order, as of October 2026.

How is this list ranked?

By the Noometry Index, which is fitted from every public benchmark result and adjusted for how hard each benchmark is. Models need several independent results to be ranked.