2026-03-21 06:49:24

your paid AI stack is already obsolete

20 free/open AI models worth using right now:
reasoning: DeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek-V3, QwQ-32B, Phi-4, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B
general: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, Gemma 3 27B, Mistral Small 3.1, Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct, OLMo 2 13B
coding: Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct, Granite 3.2 8B Instruct, Phi-4-mini-instruct, Step 3.5 Flash, LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
multimodal / wildcards: Pixtral 12B, Phi-4-multimodal-instruct, Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct, Molmo2-8B, Hunter Alpha
If it can’t ship outputs in real time, it’s not on the list.
save this. reply with the free model I missed.

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