Best FREE AI Models This Week (1 November 2026): Top 10
The free AI report for the week of 1 November 2026, from blind human votes on Arena.
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This is the free AI report for the week of 1 November 2026. The best free chat model is 40 points behind the best paid one. Let's see who is on top, what's new, and what you can run at home.
Here are the ten best free chat models, ranked by blind human votes on Arena. In first place, Kimi K3 Max from Kimi (Moonshot), with 1488 points. Then GLM 5.3 Max, and MiMo V2.6 Pro. The dashed line is the best paid model.
From fourth to tenth: GLM 5.3 Flash, 1477; DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Max, 1476; GLM 5.2 Max, 1475; MiMo V2.5 Pro, 1467; GLM 5.1, 1465; DeepSeek V4 Pro High,, 1465; Kimi K2.6, 1461.
Tra i primi 50 modelli chat di Arena, compresi quelli a pagamento, 6 si possono usare gratis e 6 hanno pesi aperti che puoi scaricare.
Now the best free model in each category. For coding: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Max. For vision: GLM 5.3 Flash. For image: Qwen Image 2.1. For video: minimax h3. For search: diffbot small xl. For agents: MiMo V2.6 Pro.
2 new open models came out on Hugging Face this week. The biggest is Ling 3.1 flash 1019, with 572 billion parameters.
The model of the week is Mage VL Cowork, from Microsoft. It has 5 billion parameters. At 4-bit it needs about 6 gigabytes of memory. The smallest home machine that holds it fully is an RTX 4060.
What can you run at home? On an RTX 3060 with 32 gigabytes of RAM, the best free model is Gemma 4 26B A4B, at about 49 tokens per second. On an RTX 4090 with 64 gigabytes of RAM, the best free model is Gemma 4 31B, at about 36 tokens per second. On a Mac M4 Max, the best free model is Gemma 4 31B, at about 19 tokens per second.
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I dati
- I primi 10 modelli chat gratis:
- Kimi K3 (Max) (Kimi (Moonshot)): 1488
- GLM-5.3 (Max) (GLM (Z.ai)): 1481
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro(Xiaomi): 1480
- GLM-5.3-Flash(GLM (Z.ai)): 1477
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) (DeepSeek): 1476
- GLM-5.2 (Max) (GLM (Z.ai)): 1475
- MiMo-V2.5-Pro(Xiaomi): 1467
- GLM-5.1(GLM (Z.ai)): 1465
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro (High, 20260813) (DeepSeek): 1465
- Kimi K2.6(Kimi (Moonshot)): 1461
- Miglior modello a pagamento: Gemini 4 Carbon (High) (1528).
- Miglior modello gratis per categoria: Programmazione: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20261017 (Max); Visione: GLM-5.3-Flash; Immagini: Qwen-Image-2.1; Video: minimax-h3; Ricerca: diffbot-small-xl; Agenti: MiMo-V2.6-Pro.
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Hardware
Memoria a 4 bit con contesto da 8K, dal nostro simulatore. Per controllare il tuo computer usa il simulatore Esegui a casa.
- RTX 3060 12 GB + 32 GB di RAM: Gemma 4 26B A4B, circa 49 token/s (GPU + RAM di sistema) · Amazon ↗
- RTX 4090 (24 GB) + 64 GB di RAM: Gemma 4 31B, circa 36 token/s (tutto sulla GPU) · Amazon ↗
- Mac M4 Max 128 GB: Gemma 4 31B, circa 19 token/s (tutto sulla GPU) · Amazon ↗
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Every number in this post comes from the FreeLLMArena data on 1 Nov 2026: Arena votes, Hugging Face sizes and our speed simulator. Download the video and its subtitles.
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