FreeLLMFree AI models this week: 19 Oct 2026 – 25 Oct 2026
16 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:
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max): score 1464, #7 among free models
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro Preview (High): score 1445, #16 among free models
- Beam 1.0 501B A23B: score 1425, #33 among free models
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash Preview (High): score 1424, #34 among free models
- Hy3 preview: score 1401, #56 among free models
- Qwen3-235B-A22B (Non-Thinking): score 1394, #60 among free models
Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:
- GLM-4.6 up 1 to #19 (score 1440)
- Qwen3.8-27B down 1 to #20 (score 1440)
- Hy3 up 1 to #21 (score 1438)
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:
- GLM-5 down 2 to #28 (score 1435)
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash (High) down 1 to #13 (score 1582)
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro (High, 20260813) down 1 to #14 (score 1582)
Vision
6 newNew free models this week:
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max): score 1278, #3 among free models
- NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B (NVFP4): score 1205, #21 among free models
- Mistral Small 3.2 (2506): score 1142, #28 among free models
- Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct: score 1000, #38 among free models
- Aya Vision 32B: score 996, #39 among free models
- Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct: score 966, #41 among free models
Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:
- GLM-4.6V down 2 to #24 (score 1164)
- Gemma 4 31B down 1 to #4 (score 1276)
- Kimi K2.5 (Thinking) up 1 to #5 (score 1269)
Image edit
1 newNew free models this week:
- Krea 3 Ultra: score 1411, #1 among free models
Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:
- Qwen-Image-2.1 down 1 to #2 (score 1362)
- HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct down 1 to #3 (score 1302)
- Qwen-Image-Edit down 1 to #4 (score 1241)
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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