FreeLLMFree AI models this week: 26 Oct 2026 – 1 Nov 2026
1 new free model on Arena and the best free model in each category, for the week ending 1 Nov 2026.
This report is generated automatically from the public Arena leaderboard history. It covers open-weight models only.
Chat
Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:
- Inkling up 1 to #18 (score 1442)
- Qwen3.5-397B-A17B down 1 to #19 (score 1441)
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash up 1 to #24 (score 1436)
Coding
Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:
- GLM-5 up 3 to #25 (score 1436)
- MiniMax-M3.1-Flash down 2 to #14 (score 1582)
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash (High) up 1 to #12 (score 1582)
Image
1 newNew free models this week:
- Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large: score 938, #18 among free models
Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:
- HunyuanImage 3.0 up 1 to #4 (score 1151)
- Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image down 1 to #5 (score 1151)
Agents
Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash down 3 to #6 (score 1)
- GLM-5.2 (Max) up 2 to #3 (score 1.3)
- Beam 1.0 501B A23B down 2 to #12 (score -4.9)
Best free model in each category
| Category | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Chat | Kimi K3 (Max) | 1488 |
| Coding | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20261017 (Max) | 1665 |
| Vision | GLM-5.3-Flash | 1271 |
| Image | Qwen-Image-2.1 | 1225 |
| Video | minimax-h3 | 1460 |
| Image edit | Krea 3 Ultra | 1411 |
| Documents | kimi-k2.6 | 1450 |
| Search | diffbot-small-xl | 1063 |
| Image to video | minimax-h3 | 1495 |
| Video edit | minimax-h3 | 1392 |
| Agents | MiMo-V2.6-Pro | 2.8 |
Free Arena
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