Free AI models this week: 24 Aug 2026 – 30 Aug 2026

This report is generated automatically from the public Arena leaderboard history. It covers open-weight models only.

Chat

New free models this week:

• glm-5.3-flash: score 1466, #4 among free models

Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:

• qwen3.8-27b down 5 to #19 (score 1437)
• mimo-v2.5-pro down 2 to #5 (score 1465)
• deepseek-v4-pro-high-20260813 up 2 to #15 (score 1441)

Coding

New free models this week:

• hy4-preview: score 1631, #2 among free models
• qwen3.8-flash-next: score 1622, #3 among free models
• glm-5.3-flash: score 1606, #5 among free models

Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:

• kimi-k2.5-thinking down 4 to #20 (score 1436)
• qwen3.5-397b-a17b down 4 to #27 (score 1398)
• qwen3.8-27b down 3 to #6 (score 1598)

Vision

New free models this week:

• glm-5.3-flash: score 1296, #1 among free models

Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:

• kimi-k2.5-instant down 2 to #9 (score 1254)
• glm-4.6v down 2 to #20 (score 1163)
• kimi-k2.6 down 1 to #2 (score 1281)

Best free model in each category