Makers
33 labs · 219 models · prices read Oct 23, 09:51 UTC
| Maker | Who they are | Models ↓ | Open weights | Hosts | Cheapest | Deals now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen (Alibaba) | Qwen is Alibaba Group's family of large language and multimodal models, developed by Alibaba Cloud. | 51 | 29 | 26 | $0.16 | 8 |
| Mistral | French AI company that develops open-weight and commercial language models. | 19 | 10 | 8 | $0.038 | 1 |
| GLM (Z.ai) | Z.ai is a Beijing-based company that develops the GLM family of large language models. | 16 | 16 | 37 | $0.19 | 21 |
| DeepSeek | Chinese AI research company, based in Hangzhou, releasing open-weight language models. | 15 | 15 | 35 | $0.21 | 25 |
| Google is an Alphabet company whose Google DeepMind unit builds the Gemini and Gemma models. | 15 | 6 | 18 | $0.09 | 7 | |
| OpenAI | US AI company that develops the GPT models, ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. | 15 | 3 | 22 | $0.12 | 2 |
| Meta | Meta, headquartered in Menlo Park, builds the Llama and Muse model families. | 12 | 10 | 18 | $0.06 | 1 |
| Anthropic | Anthropic is a San Francisco public benefit corporation that develops the Claude language models. | 10 | 0 | 3 | $0.60 | — |
| MiniMax | MiniMax is a Shanghai-based AI foundation model company founded in 2022. | 9 | 7 | 18 | $0.60 | 5 |
| NVIDIA | NVIDIA, headquartered in Santa Clara, develops the open-weight Nemotron family of AI models. | 7 | 7 | 12 | $0.18 | 7 |
| Cohere | Canadian AI company offering language models and an enterprise AI platform. | 6 | 6 | 1 | $0.19 | 1 |
| inclusionAI | Ant Group's open-source AI lab behind the Ling, Ring and Ming model families. | 5 | 4 | 2 | $0.24 | 1 |
| Kimi (Moonshot) | Moonshot AI is a Beijing-based company behind the Kimi models and assistant. | 5 | 5 | 29 | $2.40 | 5 |
| MiMo (Xiaomi) | MiMo is a family of AI models developed by Xiaomi, a group based in Beijing. | 4 | 2 | 12 | $0.28 | 6 |
| Nous Research | AI company that publishes open-weight Hermes models and the Hermes Agent. | 3 | 2 | 2 | $1.40 | — |
| xAI | AI company behind the Grok models, owned by SpaceX since 2026 and now branded SpaceXSI. | 3 | 0 | 2 | $8.00 | — |
| Baidu | Beijing-based company that began as a search engine business and develops the ERNIE model family. | 2 | 0 | 1 | $0.35 | — |
| IBM | IBM, headquartered in Armonk, develops the open-weight Granite family of language models. | 2 | 1 | 3 | $0.13 | — |
| Poolside | AI company building open-weight Laguna coding models, based in San Francisco. | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | 2 |
| Reka | San Francisco AI research lab that builds multimodal models and publishes some open weights. | 2 | 0 | 1 | $0.20 | — |
| StepFun | StepFun is a Shanghai-based company developing the Step family of foundation models. | 2 | 0 | 2 | $1.35 | — |
| Tencent | Shenzhen-based company, founded in 1998, whose Hunyuan models are now called Tencent Hy. | 2 | 1 | 2 | $0.66 | — |
| Thinking Machines | AI research and product company founded by Mira Murati and based in San Francisco. | 2 | 2 | 3 | $1.65 | 2 |
| Apodex | Developer of the Apodex research-agent models, based in Redwood City, California. | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| Baichuan | Beijing-based AI company founded in 2023 by Wang Xiaochuan, now focused on medical models. | 1 | 0 | 1 | $0.14 | — |
| Dolphin (Cognitive Computations) | Open-weight language model series by Eric Hartford's group, formerly Cognitive Computations, now Quixi AI. | 1 | 0 | 1 | $1.10 | — |
| Dots Studio | Xiaohongshu's AI model studio, behind the dots model family. | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 1 |
| Liquid AI | Efficiency-focused foundation model company, spun out of MIT CSAIL, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 1 |
| Microsoft | Redmond-based company whose Phi family comprises small language models released with open weights. | 1 | 0 | 1 | $0.21 | — |
| PrismML | AI lab building 1-bit and ternary-weight language models, based in Pasadena, California. | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
| Recursive | San Francisco-based AI company that builds automated-research systems and publishes the open-weight Flint model. | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 1 |
| TeleAI | China Telecom's AI institute and company behind the TeleChat and Xing model families. | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 1 |
| Together AI | San Francisco-based AI platform company that also publishes its own Tev1 models. | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
Cheapest: the lowest input + output price per million tokens among the maker's models, at any host. Deals now: free models, host discounts and API promotions on its models. Who they are: sourced, with the founding year, founders and history, on each maker's page.