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Best Open Source LLMs (2026)

Top open-source and open-weight large language models that can be self-hosted or accessed through third-party providers at competitive prices.

#1Llama 4 Maverick
Meta
ELO 1290
Input

$0.200/M

Output

$0.600/M

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#2Llama 4 Scout
Meta
ELO 1250
Input

$0.100/M

Output

$0.300/M

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#3DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek
ELO 1280
Input

$0.270/M

Output

$1.10/M

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#4DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek
ELO 1310
Input

$0.550/M

Output

$2.19/M

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#5Qwen 2.5 Max
Alibaba
ELO 1260
Input

$0.160/M

Output

$0.640/M

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#6Mistral Large
Mistral
ELO 1245
Input

$2.00/M

Output

$6.00/M

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#7Phi-4
Microsoft
ELO 1150
Input

$0.070/M

Output

$0.140/M

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