LLMs by Category
Top AI Models by Category
Compare the latest models across open source, proprietary, uncensored, coding, math, speed, and release freshness.
Most Used AI Models
Popular picks across OpenRouter.
MiMo-V2-Pro
Xiaomi
MiMo-V2-Pro is Xiaomi's flagship foundation model, featuring over 1T total parameters and a 1M context length, deeply optimized for agentic scenarios.
MiniMax M2.7
MiniMax
MiniMax-M2.7 is a next-generation large language model designed for autonomous, real-world productivity and continuous improvement.
GLM 5 Turbo
Z.ai
GLM-5 Turbo is a new model from Z.ai designed for fast inference and strong performance in agent-driven environments such as OpenClaw scenarios.
Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI
Grok 4.1 Fast is xAI's best agentic tool calling model that shines in real-world use cases like customer support and deep research. 2M context window.
MiniMax M2.5
MiniMax
MiniMax-M2.5 is a SOTA large language model designed for real-world productivity.
MiMo-V2-Omni
Xiaomi
MiMo-V2-Omni is a frontier omni-modal model that natively processes image, video, and audio inputs within a unified architecture.
Kimi K2.5
MoonshotAI
Kimi K2.5 is Moonshot AI's native multimodal model, delivering state-of-the-art visual coding capability and a self-directed agent swarm paradigm.
GLM 5
Z.ai
GLM-5 is Z.ai’s flagship open-source foundation model engineered for complex systems design and long-horizon agent workflows.
GPT-5.4
OpenAI
GPT-5.4 is OpenAI’s latest frontier model, unifying the Codex and GPT lines into a single system.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is Google’s frontier reasoning model, delivering enhanced software engineering performance, improved agentic reliability, and more efficient token usage across complex workflows.
Top Open Source AI Models
Community-driven, inspectable weights.
GLM 5
Z.ai
GLM-5 is Z.ai’s flagship open-source foundation model engineered for complex systems design and long-horizon agent workflows.
MiniMax M2.7
MiniMax
MiniMax-M2.7 is a next-generation large language model designed for autonomous, real-world productivity and continuous improvement.
MiMo-V2-Pro
Xiaomi
MiMo-V2-Pro is Xiaomi's flagship foundation model, featuring over 1T total parameters and a 1M context length, deeply optimized for agentic scenarios.
Kimi K2.5
MoonshotAI
Kimi K2.5 is Moonshot AI's native multimodal model, delivering state-of-the-art visual coding capability and a self-directed agent swarm paradigm.
GLM 5 Turbo
Z.ai
GLM-5 Turbo is a new model from Z.ai designed for fast inference and strong performance in agent-driven environments such as OpenClaw scenarios.
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Qwen
The Qwen3.5 series 397B-A17B native vision-language model is built on a hybrid architecture that integrates a linear attention mechanism with a sparse mixture-of-experts model, achieving higher inference efficiency.
MiMo-V2-Omni
Xiaomi
MiMo-V2-Omni is a frontier omni-modal model that natively processes image, video, and audio inputs within a unified architecture.
GLM 5V Turbo
NEWZ.ai
GLM-5V-Turbo is Z.ai’s first native multimodal agent foundation model, built for vision-based coding and agent-driven tasks.
Qwen3.5-27B
Qwen
The Qwen3.5 27B native vision-language Dense model incorporates a linear attention mechanism, delivering fast response times while balancing inference speed and performance.
GLM 4 32B
Z.ai
GLM 4 32B is a cost-effective foundation language model.
Top Proprietary AI Models
Frontier closed models.
GPT-5.4
OpenAI
GPT-5.4 is OpenAI’s latest frontier model, unifying the Codex and GPT lines into a single system.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is Google’s frontier reasoning model, delivering enhanced software engineering performance, improved agentic reliability, and more efficient token usage across complex workflows.
GPT-5.3-Codex
OpenAI
GPT-5.3-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced agentic coding model, combining the frontier software engineering performance of GPT-5.2-Codex with the broader reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT-5.2.
Grok 4.20
NEWxAI
Grok 4.20 is xAI's newest flagship model with industry-leading speed and agentic tool calling capabilities.
GPT-5.4 Mini
OpenAI
GPT-5.4 mini brings the core capabilities of GPT-5.4 to a faster, more efficient model optimized for high-throughput workloads.
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
OpenAI
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is OpenAI’s latest agentic coding model, designed for long-running, high-context software development tasks.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model optimized for high-volume use cases.
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini
OpenAI
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini is a smaller and faster version of GPT-5.1-Codex
Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI
Grok 4.1 Fast is xAI's best agentic tool calling model that shines in real-world use cases like customer support and deep research. 2M context window.
GPT-5 Image
OpenAI
It offers major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience while incorporating GPT Image 1's superior instruction following, text rendering, and detailed image editing.
Top Coding AI Models
Models tuned for code and developer workflows.
GPT-5.4
OpenAI
GPT-5.4 is OpenAI’s latest frontier model, unifying the Codex and GPT lines into a single system.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is Google’s frontier reasoning model, delivering enhanced software engineering performance, improved agentic reliability, and more efficient token usage across complex workflows.
GPT-5.3-Codex
OpenAI
GPT-5.3-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced agentic coding model, combining the frontier software engineering performance of GPT-5.2-Codex with the broader reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT-5.2.
GPT-5.4 Mini
OpenAI
GPT-5.4 mini brings the core capabilities of GPT-5.4 to a faster, more efficient model optimized for high-throughput workloads.
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
OpenAI
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is OpenAI’s latest agentic coding model, designed for long-running, high-context software development tasks.
GLM 5
Z.ai
GLM-5 is Z.ai’s flagship open-source foundation model engineered for complex systems design and long-horizon agent workflows.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model optimized for high-volume use cases.
Grok 4.20
NEWxAI
Grok 4.20 is xAI's newest flagship model with industry-leading speed and agentic tool calling capabilities.
MiniMax M2.7
MiniMax
MiniMax-M2.7 is a next-generation large language model designed for autonomous, real-world productivity and continuous improvement.
MiMo-V2-Pro
Xiaomi
MiMo-V2-Pro is Xiaomi's flagship foundation model, featuring over 1T total parameters and a 1M context length, deeply optimized for agentic scenarios.
Top OCR AI Models
Models specialised in optical character recognition and document extraction.
PaddleOCR-VL-0.9B
PaddlePaddle
Baidu's 0.9B vision-language OCR model combining a NaViT-style dynamic-resolution encoder with ERNIE-4.5-0.3B. Handles multilingual text, tables, charts, and formulas across 16K context — optimized for efficient on-device document parsing.
olmOCR-2-7B
AllenAI
Allen AI's 7B OCR model fine-tuned from Qwen2.5-VL-7B on curated academic papers and technical documentation. Supports 128K context and extracts structured text from PDFs and scanned documents with high fidelity.
DeepSeek-OCR
DeepSeek
DeepSeek's ~3B MoE OCR model using optical context compression to encode full pages into compact token sequences. Outputs structured Markdown preserving text layout, tables, and mathematical formulas from images and PDFs.
Mistral OCR
Mistral AI
Mistral's dedicated document understanding model (December 2025). Processes PDFs and images page-by-page via API, returning structured Markdown with preserved tables, equations, image bounding boxes, and rich layout metadata.
Top Math AI Models
Math and reasoning specialists.
GPT-5.4
OpenAI
GPT-5.4 is OpenAI’s latest frontier model, unifying the Codex and GPT lines into a single system.
GPT-5.3-Codex
OpenAI
GPT-5.3-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced agentic coding model, combining the frontier software engineering performance of GPT-5.2-Codex with the broader reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT-5.2.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model optimized for high-volume use cases.
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is a high-compute variant of DeepSeek-V3.2 optimized for maximum reasoning and agentic performance.
MiMo-V2-Flash
Xiaomi
MiMo-V2-Flash is an open-source foundation language model developed by Xiaomi.
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini
OpenAI
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini is a smaller and faster version of GPT-5.1-Codex
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is Google’s frontier reasoning model, delivering enhanced software engineering performance, improved agentic reliability, and more efficient token usage across complex workflows.
GLM 4 32B
Z.ai
GLM 4 32B is a cost-effective foundation language model.
Kimi K2 Thinking
MoonshotAI
Kimi K2 Thinking is Moonshot AI’s most advanced open reasoning model to date, extending the K2 series into agentic, long-horizon reasoning.
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
OpenAI
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is OpenAI’s latest agentic coding model, designed for long-running, high-context software development tasks.
Fast AI Models
Lowest cost + latency options.
Mercury 2
Inception
Mercury 2 is an extremely fast reasoning LLM, and the first reasoning diffusion LLM (dLLM).
Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen
Qwen3.5-9B is a multimodal foundation model from the Qwen3.5 family, designed to deliver strong reasoning, coding, and visual understanding in an efficient 9B-parameter architecture.
Qwen3.5-27B
Qwen
The Qwen3.5 27B native vision-language Dense model incorporates a linear attention mechanism, delivering fast response times while balancing inference speed and performance.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model optimized for high-volume use cases.
Nova 2 Lite
Amazon
Nova 2 Lite is a fast, cost-effective reasoning model for everyday workloads that can process text, images, and videos to generate text.
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b
OpenAI
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is a safety reasoning model from OpenAI built upon gpt-oss-20b.
Ministral 3 3B 2512
Mistral
The smallest model in the Ministral 3 family, Ministral 3 3B is a powerful, efficient tiny language model with vision capabilities.
Grok 4.20
NEWxAI
Grok 4.20 is xAI's newest flagship model with industry-leading speed and agentic tool calling capabilities.
Mistral Small 4
Mistral
Mistral Small 4 is the next major release in the Mistral Small family, unifying the capabilities of several flagship Mistral models into a single system.
GPT-5.4
OpenAI
GPT-5.4 is OpenAI’s latest frontier model, unifying the Codex and GPT lines into a single system.
Top Image Generation AI Models
Models that generate images from text prompts.
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)
Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview, a.k.a.
Seedream 4.5
ByteDance Seed
Seedream 4.5 is the latest in-house image generation model developed by ByteDance.
GPT-5 Image
OpenAI
It offers major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience while incorporating GPT Image 1's superior instruction following, text rendering, and detailed image editing.
Riverflow V2 Pro
Sourceful
Riverflow V2 Pro is the most powerful variant of Sourceful's Riverflow 2.0 lineup, best for top-tier control and perfect text rendering.
Riverflow V2 Fast
Sourceful
Riverflow V2 Fast is the fastest variant of Sourceful's Riverflow 2.0 lineup, best for production deployments and latency-critical workflows.
Riverflow V2 Max Preview
Sourceful
Riverflow V2 Max Preview is the most powerful variant of Sourceful's Riverflow V2 preview lineup.
Riverflow V2 Standard Preview
Sourceful
Riverflow V2 Standard Preview is the standard variant of Sourceful's Riverflow V2 preview lineup.
FLUX.2 Klein 4B
Black Forest Labs
FLUX.2 [klein] 4B is the fastest and most cost-effective model in the FLUX.2 family, optimized for high-throughput use cases while maintaining excellent image quality.
FLUX.2 Max
Black Forest Labs
FLUX.2 [max] is the new top-tier image model from Black Forest Labs, pushing image quality, prompt understanding, and editing consistency to the highest level yet.
FLUX.2 Flex
Black Forest Labs
FLUX.2 [flex] excels at rendering complex text, typography, and fine details, and supports multi-reference editing in the same unified architecture.
Top Audio AI Models
Models with voice and audio output capabilities.
GPT Audio Mini
OpenAI
A cost-efficient version of GPT Audio.
GPT Audio
OpenAI
The gpt-audio model is OpenAI's first generally available audio model.
Large Context Window AI Models
Models with 200K+ context windows.
Grok 4.1 Fast
xAI
Grok 4.1 Fast is xAI's best agentic tool calling model that shines in real-world use cases like customer support and deep research. 2M context window.
Grok 4.20
NEWxAI
Grok 4.20 is xAI's newest flagship model with industry-leading speed and agentic tool calling capabilities.
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent
NEWxAI
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent is a variant of xAI’s Grok 4.20 designed for collaborative, agent-based workflows.
GPT-5.4
OpenAI
GPT-5.4 is OpenAI’s latest frontier model, unifying the Codex and GPT lines into a single system.
GPT-5.4 Pro
OpenAI
GPT-5.4 Pro is OpenAI's most advanced model, building on GPT-5.4's unified architecture with enhanced reasoning capabilities for complex, high-stakes tasks.
MiMo-V2-Pro
Xiaomi
MiMo-V2-Pro is Xiaomi's flagship foundation model, featuring over 1T total parameters and a 1M context length, deeply optimized for agentic scenarios.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is Google’s frontier reasoning model, delivering enhanced software engineering performance, improved agentic reliability, and more efficient token usage across complex workflows.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model optimized for high-volume use cases.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools is a variant of Gemini 3.1 Pro that improves tool selection behavior by preventing overuse of a general bash tool when more efficient third-party or user-defined functions are available.
Palmyra X5
Writer
Palmyra X5 is Writer's most advanced model, purpose-built for building and scaling AI agents across the enterprise.
Top Uncensored AI Models
Lightly filtered, high-flexibility models.
Newest AI Models
Fresh releases from OpenRouter.
Gemma 4 31B
NEWGemma 4 31B Instruct is Google DeepMind's 30.7B dense multimodal model supporting text and image input with text output.
GLM 5V Turbo
NEWZ.ai
GLM-5V-Turbo is Z.ai’s first native multimodal agent foundation model, built for vision-based coding and agent-driven tasks.
Trinity Large Thinking
NEWArcee AI
Trinity Large Thinking is a powerful open source reasoning model from the team at Arcee AI.
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent
NEWxAI
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent is a variant of xAI’s Grok 4.20 designed for collaborative, agent-based workflows.
Grok 4.20
NEWxAI
Grok 4.20 is xAI's newest flagship model with industry-leading speed and agentic tool calling capabilities.
KAT-Coder-Pro V2
NEWKwaipilot
KAT-Coder-Pro V2 is the latest high-performance model in KwaiKAT’s KAT-Coder series, designed for complex enterprise-grade software engineering and SaaS integration.
Reka Edge
NEWrekaai
Reka Edge is an extremely efficient 7B multimodal vision-language model that accepts image/video+text inputs and generates text outputs.
MiMo-V2-Omni
Xiaomi
MiMo-V2-Omni is a frontier omni-modal model that natively processes image, video, and audio inputs within a unified architecture.
MiMo-V2-Pro
Xiaomi
MiMo-V2-Pro is Xiaomi's flagship foundation model, featuring over 1T total parameters and a 1M context length, deeply optimized for agentic scenarios.
MiniMax M2.7
MiniMax
MiniMax-M2.7 is a next-generation large language model designed for autonomous, real-world productivity and continuous improvement.
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How to Choose the Right AI Model
A practical guide to picking the best LLM for your use case.
Match the model to the task
General-purpose models like GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet handle most tasks well. For specialized work, coding models (DeepSeek Coder, Codestral) and math models (QwQ, DeepSeek R1) outperform generalists on their respective benchmarks while often costing less per token.
Consider context window size
If you work with long documents, codebases, or multi-turn conversations, context window matters. Models range from 8K to over 1M tokens. Larger windows let you process entire books or repositories in a single prompt, but they increase cost and latency.
Balance cost, speed, and quality
Frontier models deliver the highest benchmark scores but cost more per token and respond slower. Fast models like Gemini Flash, Llama 3 (8B), and Mistral Small can handle routine tasks at a fraction of the cost with sub-second latency - ideal for high-volume applications.
Open source vs. proprietary
Open-source models (Llama, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek) let you self-host, fine-tune, and inspect weights. Proprietary models (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini) often lead on benchmarks and offer managed APIs with built-in safety features. Many teams use both: proprietary for peak performance, open source for cost control and customization.
Check for multimodal capabilities
Some models accept images, audio, or files alongside text. If your workflow involves analyzing screenshots, diagrams, or audio transcriptions, filter for models with vision or audio input support. Models with structured output and function calling are essential for building agents and tool-using applications.
Use benchmarks as a starting point
Scores like GPQA, MMLU Pro, and HLE measure academic knowledge and reasoning. LiveCodeBench and SciCode test practical coding ability. MATH 500 and AIME evaluate mathematical problem-solving. No single benchmark tells the full story - compare scores across categories relevant to your use case, then test with your own prompts.
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