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Apodex 1.1 Mini is a reasoning-first model from Apodex, built for complex, long-horizon research and forecasting tasks. It works directly with files, data, code, and tools to produce verifiable results,...

Mercury Decide is Inception's structured decision model, served as a System One endpoint. Send a state along with typed questions, and it returns a choice, a score, or a yes/no...

Span-01 Lite is the free, lighter tier of Span-01, a behavior scoring model from Respan. It returns, for each plain-language behavior you define, the probability that the behavior is present...

LFM2.5-Embedding-350M is a text embedding model from Liquid AI. It produces 1,024-dimensional embeddings for retrieval and semantic search. Successful OpenRouter requests and embeddings may be retained and used to train...

Dots3-Note Preview is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model from Dots Studio, with 16B active parameters out of 280B total. It is the lightest model in the Dots 3 family and is...

LFM2.5-2.6B is a compact reasoning model from Liquid AI. It is suited for agent workflows, data extraction, RAG, and long-context processing. Liquid advises against using it for agentic coding or...

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 3B active parameters out of 30B total. It is suited for high-throughput agentic workloads and specialized tasks that...

Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of...

S2.1 Pro Free is the no-cost variant of Fish Audio S2.1 Pro, intended for testing, prototyping, and low-volume applications. It provides the same synthesis capabilities without production latency or availability...

Laguna S 2.1 is the latest coding agent model from Poolside. Laguna S 2.1 is a 118B total parameter model with 8B active parameters, scoring 70.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and...

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Thinking Machines

Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total. It is designed for general-purpose reasoning, coding, agentic and tool-use systems,...

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed 1B is an open text embedding model from NVIDIA, optimized for high-throughput, low-latency retrieval. It is suited for enterprise search, RAG, code retrieval, and agentic retrieval...

Laguna XS 2.1 is the latest coding agent model in the 33B-A3B category from Poolside and a step forward from their Laguna XS.2 model (released in April 2026). It combines...

North Mini Code is Cohere's first agentic coding model and the debut of its North family. A sparse mixture-of-experts model with 30B total parameters and 3B active, it is optimized...

Llama Nemotron Rerank VL 1B V2 is a 1.7B multimodal reranking model from NVIDIA. It evaluates the relevance of document images and text against user queries, designed for vision RAG...

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety is a compact 4B-parameter multimodal guardrail model from NVIDIA, fine-tuned from Google Gemma-3-4B. It moderates both inputs to and responses from LLMs and VLMs, accepting...

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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is an open frontier-reasoning and orchestration model from NVIDIA, with 55B active parameters out of 550B total (MoE). Built on a hybrid Transformer-Mamba mixture-of-experts architecture, it...

NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Nano Omni is a 30B-A3B open multimodal model designed to function as a perception and context sub-agent in enterprise agent systems. It accepts text, image, video, and...

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is an instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Google DeepMind. Despite 25.2B total parameters, only 3.8B activate per token during inference — delivering near-31B quality at...

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Gemma 4 31B Instruct is Google DeepMind's 30.7B dense multimodal model supporting text and image input with text output. Features a 256K token context window, configurable thinking/reasoning mode, native function...

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super is a 120B-parameter open hybrid MoE model, activating just 12B parameters for maximum compute efficiency and accuracy in complex multi-agent applications. Built on a hybrid Mamba-Transformer...

The Llama Nemotron Embed VL 1B V2 embedding model is optimized for multimodal question-answering retrieval. The model can embed 'documents' in the form of image, text, or image and text...

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