Free AI models this week: 5 Oct 2026 – 11 Oct 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 1446)
• hy3 down 2 to #21 (score 1439)
• glm-5.3-flash up 1 to #4 (score 1471)

Coding

New free models this week:

• mimo-v2.6-flash: score 1637, #2 among free models

Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:

• glm-5.3-max down 2 to #6 (score 1622)
• deepseek-v4.1-flash-max down 2 to #7 (score 1619)
• deepseek-v4-pro-high-20260813 down 2 to #12 (score 1582)

Vision

New free models this week:

• deepseek-v4.1-flash-max: score 1277, #4 among free models

Biggest moves among the top 30 free models:

• qwen3.5-397b-a17b down 2 to #8 (score 1263)
• gemma-3-27b-it down 2 to #23 (score 1164)
• qwen3.8-27b down 1 to #5 (score 1271)

Best free model in each category