FreeLLMFree AI models this week: 19 Oct 2026 – 25 Oct 2026
21 new free models on Arena and the best free model in each category, for the week ending 25 Oct 2026.
This report is generated automatically from the public Arena leaderboard history. It covers open-weight models only.
Chat
6 newNew free models this week:
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro: score 1491, #1 among free models
- GLM-5.3 (Max): score 1474, #3 among free models
- GLM-5.3-Flash: score 1471, #4 among free models
- GLM-5.2 (Max): score 1470, #5 among free models
- MiMo-V2.5-Pro: score 1464, #6 among free models
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max): score 1464, #7 among free models
Coding
2 newNew free models this week:
- MiniMax-M3.1-Flash: score 1587, #12 among free models
- NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B (NVFP4): score 1404, #33 among free models
Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro (High, 20260813) down 1 to #13 (score 1582)
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash (High) down 1 to #14 (score 1582)
- Muse Spark Open (Max) down 1 to #15 (score 1528)
Vision
6 newNew free models this week:
- GLM-5.3-Flash: score 1294, #1 among free models
- Kimi K2.6: score 1282, #2 among free models
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max): score 1278, #3 among free models
- Gemma 4 31B: score 1276, #4 among free models
- Qwen3.8-27B: score 1269, #5 among free models
- Kimi K2.5 (Thinking): score 1269, #6 among free models
Image edit
6 newNew free models this week:
- Krea 3 Ultra: score 1411, #1 among free models
- Qwen-Image-2.1: score 1362, #2 among free models
- HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct: score 1302, #3 among free models
- Qwen-Image-Edit: score 1241, #4 among free models
- Qwen-Image-Edit (2511): score 1233, #5 among free models
- FLUX.2 [klein] 9B: score 1224, #6 among free models
Agents
1 newNew free models this week:
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max): score 2.6, #2 among free models
Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:
- Hy4 preview down 2 to #4 (score 2.4)
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash up 1 to #3 (score 2.5)
- Mistral Medium 3.5 up 1 to #16 (score -11.8)
Best free model in each category
| Category | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Chat | MiMo-V2.6-Pro | 1491 |
| Coding | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20261017 (Max) | 1664 |
| Vision | GLM-5.3-Flash | 1294 |
| Image | qwen-image-2.1 | 1223 |
| Video | minimax-h3 | 1460 |
| Image edit | Krea 3 Ultra | 1411 |
| Documents | kimi-k2.6 | 1451 |
| Search | diffbot-small-xl | 1023 |
| Image to video | minimax-h3 | 1495 |
| Video edit | minimax-h3 | 1392 |
| Agents | MiMo-V2.6-Pro | 3.7 |
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