DeepSeek V3.2
DeepSeek V3.2 is a 671B-parameter MoE model activating 37B per token that delivers frontier-class reasoning and coding at the lowest API price in the industry - $0.14/$0.28 input, $0.42 output per million tokens.
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GLM-4.7-Flash
Zhipu's GLM-4.7-Flash is a 30B-A3B MoE model that posts 59.2% on SWE-bench Verified and 79.5% on tau2-Bench while running on a single RTX 4090 - MIT licensed and free via the Z.AI API.
GPT-4o mini
OpenAI's budget API workhorse pairs 128K context with $0.15/$0.60 per million token pricing, solid coding benchmarks, and the broadest third-party ecosystem of any small model.
Mistral Large 3
Mistral Large 3 is a 675B-parameter MoE model activating 41B per token with native multimodal support, a 256K context window, and Apache 2.0 licensing - Europe's first frontier-class open-weight model.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B vs GLM-4.7-Flash: Two Chinese MoE Models, Very Different Strengths
Head-to-head comparison of Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and GLM-4.7-Flash - two Chinese-origin 30B-A3B MoE models with Apache 2.0/MIT licenses that dominate different benchmarks despite near-identical parameter budgets.
MiniMax M2.5
MiniMax M2.5 is a 230B MoE model (10B active) that scores 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified while costing 1/10th to 1/20th of frontier competitors like Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2.
