Updated for Late 2026 • Verified on Independent Benchmarks

Top 10 Open Source LLMs

The most capable, efficient, and innovative open-weight models defining the frontier AI ecosystem in late 2026.

#1

MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL

Xiaomi MiMo
Context: 1M Tokens Arch: Omnimodal MoE License: MIT

The reigning #1 open-weight model on global intelligence benchmarks. Unified asynchronous RL scaling across coding, visual workflows, and cybersecurity, bolstered by Groupwise Agentic Grading for recursive self-improvement.

Omnimodal 1M Context RL Scaled MIT License
#2

Kimi K3

Moonshot AI
Params: 2.8T (16 Active) Context: 1M Tokens Attention: KDA + AttnRes

The world's first open 3T-class model. 2.8 trillion parameters with extreme MoE sparsity, capable of sustaining multi-hour autonomous engineering sessions, GPU kernel optimization, CAD design, and interactive scientific research.

2.8T MoE Autonomous Coding 1M Context CAD & Chip Design
#3

DeepSeek V4.1-Flash

DeepSeek AI
Params: 552B (8B/16B Active) Context: 1M Tokens License: MIT

Pushing the limits of KV cache compression. Its Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture activates only 8B parameters during prefill, reducing persistent KV memory to 1/8th of standard baselines for lightning-fast long-context inference.

CED Arch KV Compression 1M Context MIT License
#4

GLM-5.3

Zhipu AI / Z.ai
Context: 1M Tokens Benchmark: Terminal Bench SOTA Domain: Cyber & Coding

The reigning open-source champion for coding and agentic terminal execution. Achieves open SOTA on Terminal Bench 3.0 and CyberGym, with massive gains in automated vulnerability discovery, exploitation defense, and system auditing.

Terminal Bench SOTA CyberGym Agentic Coding 1M Context
#5

Qwen 3.8

Alibaba Cloud
Family: 27B Dense to Max MoE Context: Up to 1M Tokens License: Apache 2.0

Multimodal reasoning powerhouse featuring native vision and video understanding with dynamic thinking control (`xhigh`, `medium`, `low`). Backed by support for 119+ languages and an unencumbered Apache 2.0 open license.

Thinking Mode 119 Languages Vision & Video Apache 2.0
#6

Llama 4

Meta AI
Variants: Scout & Maverick Context: Up to 10M Tokens Arch: Multimodal MoE

Meta's multimodal MoE flagship. Llama 4 Scout offers an unprecedented 10M token context window for entire multi-repository analysis, while Maverick delivers frontier reasoning and native image understanding.

10M Context Multimodal MoE Enterprise Ready
#7

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI
Params: 128B Dense Context: 256k Tokens License: Modified MIT

The dense 128B parameter powerhouse. Features toggleable instant versus deep reasoning modes, multimodal vision processing, and enterprise-grade native function calling with strict JSON schema guarantees.

128B Dense Dual Reasoning Vision Function Calling
#8

Nemotron-3-Ultra

NVIDIA
Params: 550B (55B Active) Arch: Mamba-2 + LatentMoE Context: 1M Tokens

Frontier hybrid architecture combining Mamba-2 state space operators with LatentMoE and Multi-Token Prediction (MTP). Delivers blazing linear inference throughput across 1M context tokens for mission-critical enterprise RAG.

Mamba-2 Hybrid Multi-Token Prediction 1M Context Enterprise RAG
#9

MiniMax M3

MiniMax
Context: 1M Tokens Benchmark: Top SWE-bench Modalities: Video + Audio + Text

An omnimodal MoE titan with native understanding of hour-long video, high-resolution imagery, audio, and text. Delivers top SWE-bench Verified coding scores and robust XML tool invocation for autonomous multi-agent scaffolds.

Video Native SWE-bench Verified 1M Context Omnimodal
#10

GPT-OSS

OpenAI
Params: 120B (5.1B Active) Context: 128k Tokens License: Apache 2.0

OpenAI's milestone entry into open weights. The 120B parameter MoE (with only 5.1B active parameters per token) is engineered specifically for agentic workflows, native tool calling, and efficient deployment on single-GPU hardware.

Agentic Single-GPU Deploy Apache 2.0 Tool Use