Free AI models this week: 7 Sept 2026 – 13 Sept 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:

• deepseek-v4-pro-high-20260813 up 3 to #13 (score 1444)
• glm-4.6 down 2 to #16 (score 1440)
• qwen3.5-397b-a17b down 2 to #19 (score 1438)

Coding

New free models this week:

• deepseek-v4.1-flash-max: score 1614, #5 among free models

Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:

• kimi-k2.5-instant down 2 to #26 (score 1406)
• glm-5.3-flash down 1 to #6 (score 1607)
• qwen3.8-27b down 1 to #7 (score 1593)

Vision

Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:

• gemma-4-31b up 1 to #3 (score 1276)
• qwen3.8-27b down 1 to #4 (score 1272)
• kimi-k2.5-instant up 1 to #8 (score 1255)

Best free model in each category