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Large language models (LLMs)

Browse every major large language model in one place. This LLM list tracks frontier and open-source foundation models โ€” GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, Qwen and 400+ more โ€” with parameter counts, context windows, benchmark scores and provider pricing.

576 models
4P

Shishuo

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ 4Paradigm

Apr 2023
Language Proprietary
FU

MOSS-Moon-003

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Fudan University

Apr 2023 16B
Language Open (Restricted)
KH

BELLE-LLaMA-EXT-7B

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ KE Holdings Inc. (โ€œBeikeโ€)

Apr 2023 7B
Language Open Weights
HI

HuaTuo

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Harbin Institute of Technology

Apr 2023 7B
Language Open Weights
SE

SenseChat

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ SenseTime

Apr 2023 180B
Language Proprietary
KH

BELLE-7B-0.2M

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ KE Holdings Inc. (โ€œBeikeโ€)

Apr 2023 7B
Language Open (Restricted)
KH

BELLE-7B-1M

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ KE Holdings Inc. (โ€œBeikeโ€)

Apr 2023 7B
Language Open (Restricted)
KH

BELLE-7B-2M

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ KE Holdings Inc. (โ€œBeikeโ€)

Apr 2023 7B
Language Open (Restricted)
BA

ERNIE-ViLG 2.0

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Baidu

Mar 2023 24B
Language Proprietary
KH

BELLE-7B-0.6M

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ KE Holdings Inc. (โ€œBeikeโ€)

Mar 2023 7B
Language Open (Restricted)
TU

CPM-Bee

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Tsinghua University

Mar 2023 10B
Language Open (Restricted)
HU

Lightweight Fine-tuning a Pretrained Protein Language Model for Protein Secondary

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Henan University

Mar 2023
Language Proprietary
HN

PanGu-ฮฃ

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Huawei Noah's Ark Lab

Mar 2023 1.1T
Language Proprietary
WL

RIO

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ West Lake Xinchen / Xinchen AI / ่ฅฟๆน–ๅฟƒ่พฐ๏ผˆๆญๅทž๏ผ‰็ง‘ๆŠ€ๆœ‰้™ๅ…ฌๅธ

Mar 2023 100B
Language Proprietary
RU

Uni-Mol Molecular Model

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Renmin University of China

Mar 2023
Language Open (Restricted)
LA

MengziGPT-General-7B

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Langboat

Mar 2023 7B
Language Proprietary
ZU

MsPBRsP

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Zhengzhou University

Feb 2023
Language Proprietary
HM

mini-GPT-2+Active-AdamW

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ HEC Montreal

Jan 2023
Language Proprietary
TU

DNA Fine-Tuned Language Model (DFLM)

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Tongji University

Jan 2023
Language Proprietary
WU

Vega v2

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Wuhan University

Dec 2022 6B
Language Proprietary
BA

ALM 1.0

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / BAAI

Nov 2022 335M
Language Proprietary
AL

AR-LDM

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Alibaba

Nov 2022 1.5B
Language Proprietary
IC

Taiyi-Stable Diffusion

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ IDEA CCNL

Oct 2022 1B
Language Open (Restricted)
HU

GPT-2 + Progressive LRD

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Huawei

Oct 2022 31M
Language Proprietary
TU

CPM-Ant

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Tsinghua University

Sep 2022 10B
Language Open Weights
FU

Deep-LDA

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Fudan University

Sep 2022
Language Proprietary
WL

Dream Diary (้€ ๆขฆๆ—ฅ่ฎฐ)

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ West Lake Xinchen / Xinchen AI / ่ฅฟๆน–ๅฟƒ่พฐ๏ผˆๆญๅทž๏ผ‰็ง‘ๆŠ€ๆœ‰้™ๅ…ฌๅธ

Aug 2022
Language Proprietary
PU

SGPT BE 5.8B

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Peking University

Aug 2022 5.8B
Language Open Weights
TU

GLM-130B

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Tsinghua University

Aug 2022 130B
Language Open Weights
HK

YuYan 11B

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Hong Kong Baptist University

Jul 2022 11B
Language Proprietary
Zhipu AI

CodeGeeX

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Zhipu AI

Jun 2022 13B
Language Open (Restricted)
TU

DITTO

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Tsinghua University

Jun 2022 750M
Language Proprietary
HU

improved U-Net for chest X-ray images segmentation

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Henan University of Technology

May 2022
Language Proprietary
MP

StyleGAN-XL

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

May 2022
Language Open (Restricted)
TU

CogView2

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Tsinghua University

Apr 2022 6B
Language Proprietary
UC

DARK

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ University College London (UCL)

Jan 2022
Language Proprietary
BA

ERNIE 3.0 Titan

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Baidu

Dec 2021 260B
Language Proprietary
UO

WD+LR+M

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ University of Cambridge

Oct 2021
Language Proprietary
SA

base LM+GNN (WT103)

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Shannon.AI

Oct 2021 247M
Language Proprietary
SA

base LM+GNN+kNN

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Shannon.AI

Oct 2021 274M
Language Open (Restricted)
HN

KnGPT2

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Huawei Noah's Ark Lab

Oct 2021 83M
Language Proprietary
IN

Yuan 1.0

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Inspur

Oct 2021 245.7B
Language Proprietary
BA

PLATO-XL

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Baidu

Sep 2021 11B
Language Open (Restricted)
PU

PermuteFormer

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Peking University

Sep 2021 149.7M
Language Proprietary
TU

ProteinLM

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Tsinghua University

Aug 2021 3B
Language Open (Restricted)
BA

ERNIE 3.0

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Baidu

Jul 2021 10B
Language Open (Restricted)
TU

CPM-2

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Tsinghua University

Jun 2021 11B
Language Proprietary
TU

CogView

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Tsinghua University

May 2021 4B
Language Open (Restricted)
MU

ConSERT

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Meituan University

May 2021 340M
Language Open (Restricted)
HN

PanGu-ฮฑ

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Huawei Noah's Ark Lab

Apr 2021 207B
Language Proprietary
AL

PLUG

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Alibaba

Apr 2021 27B
Language Proprietary
DU

GraphMS

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Dalian University of Technology

Apr 2021
Language Proprietary
LR

TransfoRNN(d=1024)(2-layer) (PTB)

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Lenovo Research

Apr 2021 97.6M
Language Proprietary
TU

GLM-10B

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Tsinghua University

Mar 2021 10B
Language Open (Restricted)
TU

GLM-10B-bidirectional

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Tsinghua University

Mar 2021 10B
Language Open (Restricted)
TU

GLM-10B-unidirectional

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Tsinghua University

Mar 2021 10B
Language Open (Restricted)
TU

GLM-2B

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Tsinghua University

Mar 2021 2B
Language Open (Restricted)
BA

Wu Dao - Wen Hui

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / BAAI

Mar 2021 11.3B
Language Proprietary
BA

Wu Dao - Wen Su

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / BAAI

Mar 2021
Language Open Weights
BA

Wu Dao - Wen Yuan

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence / BAAI

Jan 2021 2.6B
Language Proprietary

About Large language models (LLMs)

Large language models (LLMs) are the foundation of modern generative AI โ€” general-purpose text models trained on vast corpora that can write, reason, summarise, translate and code. Choosing the best LLM is rarely about a single winner: the best AI model for one task may lag on another. Reasoning-heavy work rewards models that score well on benchmarks like MMLU, GPQA and AIME, while agentic and tool-use workloads care more about instruction following, function calling and long-context recall. When you compare LLMs, weigh raw capability against the practical constraints that decide cost and feasibility โ€” context window, throughput, latency, licensing and price per million tokens. Open-source LLMs such as Llama, Qwen, Mistral and DeepSeek let you self-host and fine-tune, while proprietary frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google often lead on raw quality. Use our benchmarks to see where each model ranks, and put two candidates side by side with compare before you commit to a provider.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best LLM right now?

There is no single best LLM โ€” it depends on the task. Frontier proprietary models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google tend to lead on reasoning benchmarks, while open-source LLMs like Llama, Qwen and DeepSeek are best when you need to self-host or fine-tune. Compare candidates on the benchmarks page for your specific workload.

What is the best open source LLM?

The strongest open-source and open-weights LLMs at any given time typically come from the Llama, Qwen, Mistral and DeepSeek families. They can be downloaded, self-hosted and fine-tuned, and the top ones rival proprietary models on many benchmarks. Filter the list above by availability to see current open-weights options.

How do I compare two LLMs?

Use the compare tool to put two models side by side on parameters, context window, availability and benchmark scores, then check the benchmarks page for task-specific rankings such as MMLU, GPQA and coding scores.