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Open-Model Tracker

One row per major open-weight model: publisher, license, parameter counts, and where it can be run — self-hosted, via the official API, or across hosted providers. Also available as JSON.

The Aug 2026 open-weight frontier

13 models · seed data

Seed data for the Aug 2026 open-weight frontier, compiled from DeAI's launch-sprint sourcing. Fields we could not confirm are null and render as "—", not estimated. Per-provider pricing columns populate as the weekly Price Index sweep runs (see /prices); nothing here should be read as a live price.Numbers we could not confirm are shown as “—”, never estimated. See the full sampling approach on methodology.

ModelPublisherLicenseParams (total / active)ContextWhere to run
Kimi K3
Parameter counts and license terms per Moonshot's own reporting; commercial-use caveats apply — read the license before deploying.
Moonshot AICustom (Moonshot)2.8T / 104BSelf-host (large-scale infra required) · Official API · Hosted providers — pricing pending weekly sweep
Kimi K2.5
Recorded on the Price Index as a list-price anchor (~$0.60 / $3.00 per M tokens, as of 2026-08-20); license and parameter counts unconfirmed as of seed date.
Moonshot AIOfficial API · Hosted providers — pricing pending weekly sweep
DeepSeek V4 Pro
License and parameter counts unconfirmed as of seed date — verify at draft time.
DeepSeekOfficial API · Hosted providers — pricing pending weekly sweep
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Recorded on the Price Index as a list-price anchor ($0.14 / $0.28 per M tokens, official API, as of 2026-08-20); license and parameter counts unconfirmed as of seed date.
DeepSeekOfficial API · Hosted providers — pricing pending weekly sweep
GLM-5.3
Released after GLM-5.2; license not yet confirmed against GLM-5.2's MIT terms — verify before citing.
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)Official API · Hosted providers — pricing pending weekly sweep
GLM-5.2Z.ai (Zhipu AI)MITSelf-host · Official API · Hosted providers — pricing pending weekly sweep
Qwen3.6-27BAlibaba (Qwen team)Apache 2.027BSelf-host (single high-memory GPU) · Official API · Hosted providers — pricing pending weekly sweep
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
A3B = 3B active parameters at inference (mixture-of-experts).
Alibaba (Qwen team)Apache 2.035B / 3BSelf-host · Official API · Hosted providers — pricing pending weekly sweep
Qwen3 Coder 480B-A35B
Coding-specialized mixture-of-experts release.
Alibaba (Qwen team)Apache 2.0480B / 35BSelf-host (large-scale infra required) · Official API · Hosted providers — pricing pending weekly sweep
Llama 4 Maverick
License applies use-based restrictions above a 700M MAU threshold and carves out multimodal use in the EU — read the license before deploying.
MetaLlama 4 Community License (EU multimodal carve-out)Self-host · Hosted providers — pricing pending weekly sweep
Llama 4 Scout
Same license family as Maverick — 700M MAU threshold and an EU multimodal carve-out apply.
MetaLlama 4 Community License (EU multimodal carve-out)Self-host · Hosted providers — pricing pending weekly sweep
gpt-oss-120bOpenAIApache 2.0120BSelf-host (large-scale infra required) · Hosted providers — pricing pending weekly sweep
Hermes 4 70B
Nous ships Hermes 4 in multiple sizes; only the 70B variant is confirmed in our source set as of seed date.
Nous Research70BSelf-host · Hosted providers — pricing pending weekly sweep

Per-provider pricing columns (Morpheus among them, not featured) populate as the weekly price sweep runs — see the Inference Price Index.

About this dataset

Seed data compiled from DeAI’s launch-sprint sourcing (last updated 2026-08-24). Publisher and license are stated only where well documented; parameter counts, context windows, and release dates we could not confirm are left null rather than estimated. Model names ending in a size suffix (e.g. “27B”, “480B-A35B”) reflect the publisher’s own naming, not an independent benchmark. This tracker is a Desk C data asset; see methodologyfor how it’s maintained.

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