FreeLLMFree AI models this week: 2 Nov 2026 – 8 Nov 2026
5 new free models on Arena and the best free model in each category, for the week ending 8 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:
- MiniMax-M3 down 3 to #24 (score 1436)
- GLM-5.2 (Max) up 1 to #5 (score 1475)
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) down 1 to #6 (score 1475)
Coding
Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:
- GLM-5 down 5 to #30 (score 1435)
- Muse Spark Open (Max) down 2 to #17 (score 1526)
- Kimi K2.6 down 2 to #18 (score 1509)
Vision
Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:
- Qwen3.5-397B-A17B down 2 to #8 (score 1246)
- Inkling-Small down 2 to #19 (score 1208)
- Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct down 2 to #30 (score 1127)
Video
4 newNew free models this week:
- Kandinsky 5.0 Video Pro: score 1176, #2 among free models
- Wan 2.2 A14B: score 1132, #5 among free models
- Kandinsky 5.0 Video Lite: score 1113, #6 among free models
- Mochi 1: score 1007, #7 among free models
Image to video
1 newNew free models this week:
- Wan 2.2 A14B: score 1171, #3 among free models
Agents
Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:
- GLM-5.3 (Max) up 4 to #4 (score 1.1)
- GLM-5.2 (Max) down 3 to #7 (score 0.6)
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next down 2 to #13 (score -4.4)
Best free model in each category
| Category | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Chat | Kimi K3 (Max) | 1488 |
| Coding | Kimi K3.1 Pro (Max) | 1684 |
| Vision | GLM-5.3-Flash | 1272 |
| Image | Qwen-Image-2.1 | 1227 |
| Video | MiniMax H3 | 1457 |
| Image edit | Krea 3 Ultra | 1411 |
| Documents | Kimi K2.6 | 1451 |
| Search | Diffbot-Small-XL | 1062 |
| Image to video | MiniMax H3 | 1493 |
| Video edit | MiniMax H3 | 1384 |
| Agents | Kimi K3.1 Pro (Max) | 5.3 |
Free Arena
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