The best Apache-2.0 and MIT licensed open LLMs

Open LLMs under the two most permissive licenses — Apache-2.0 and MIT — the gold standard for fully unrestricted use, fine-tuning, and redistribution. Ranked by popularity, with the honest run cost for each. The license is a fact in our catalog; you judge the quality.

How this is ranked: Objective license filter (Apache/MIT is a parseable catalog fact). Narrower and stricter than the general commercial-use page (excludes permissive-but-custom licenses like Llama/Gemma). Sort by recognition, no quality verdict.

1. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct — Alibaba, 7B · ~7.0 GB VRAM · $0.07/1M API · commercial OK
2. Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct — Alibaba, 32B · ~25 GB VRAM · $0.83/1M API · commercial OK
3. DeepSeek-R1 — DeepSeek, 671B · ~453 GB VRAM · $1.60/1M API · commercial OK
4. Qwen3 0.6B — Qwen, 800M · ~3.0 GB VRAM · $0.11/1M API est. · commercial OK
5. Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 — Mistral AI, 7.2B · ~8.0 GB VRAM · $0.20/1M API · commercial OK
6. gpt-oss-120b — OpenAI, 117B · ~80 GB VRAM · $0.11/1M API · commercial OK
7. Qwen3-235B-A22B — Alibaba, 235B · ~160 GB VRAM · $1.14/1M API · commercial OK
8. Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct — Alibaba, 7B · ~7.0 GB VRAM · $0.16/1M API est. · commercial OK
9. gpt-oss-20b — OpenAI, 21B · ~15 GB VRAM · $0.09/1M API · commercial OK
10. Qwen3 4B — Qwen, 4B · ~5.0 GB VRAM · $0.13/1M API est. · commercial OK
11. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B — DeepSeek, 32.5B · ~27 GB VRAM · $0.36/1M API est. · commercial OK
12. Qwen3-32B — Alibaba, 32.8B · ~25 GB VRAM · $0.36/1M API est. · commercial OK
13. Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct — Qwen, 1.5B · ~3.0 GB VRAM · $0.11/1M API est. · commercial OK
14. DeepSeek R1 0528 — deepseek-ai, 684.5B · ~489 GB VRAM · $1.33/1M API · commercial OK
15. Mixtral 8x7B Instruct — Mistral AI, 46.7B · ~34 GB VRAM · $0.24/1M API · commercial OK
16. Phi-4 — Microsoft, 14B · ~13 GB VRAM · $0.21/1M API est. · commercial OK
17. Qwen3-8B — Alibaba, 8.2B · ~9.0 GB VRAM · $0.17/1M API est. · commercial OK
18. Qwen3 1.7B — Qwen, 2B · ~5.0 GB VRAM · $0.12/1M API est. · commercial OK
19. BGE-M3 — BAAI, 567M · ~3.0 GB VRAM · $0.10/1M API est. · commercial OK
20. Mistral Small 3 (24B, 2501) — Mistral AI, 23.6B · ~20 GB VRAM · $0.29/1M API est. · commercial OK
21. Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507 — Qwen, 4B · ~5.0 GB VRAM · $0.13/1M API est. · commercial OK
22. dolphin 2.9.1 yi 1.5 34b — dphn, 34.4B · ~26 GB VRAM · $0.38/1M API est. · commercial OK
23. Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct — Qwen, 500M · ~2.0 GB VRAM · $0.10/1M API est. · commercial OK
24. DeepSeek V4 Pro — deepseek-ai, 861.6B · ~580 GB VRAM · $0.66/1M API · commercial OK
25. Qwen2.5 Coder 14B Instruct — Qwen, 14.8B · ~14 GB VRAM · $0.22/1M API est. · commercial OK
26. DeepSeek V3.2 — deepseek-ai, 685.4B · ~490 GB VRAM · $5.58/1M API est. · commercial OK
27. Qwen2 1.5B Instruct — Qwen, 1.5B · ~3.0 GB VRAM · $0.11/1M API est. · commercial OK
28. DeepSeek V4 Flash — deepseek-ai, 158.1B · ~107 GB VRAM · $1.36/1M API est. · commercial OK
29. Qwen2.5 0.5B — Qwen, 500M · ~2.0 GB VRAM · $0.10/1M API est. · commercial OK
30. Phi-3.5-mini Instruct — Microsoft, 3.8B · ~5.0 GB VRAM · $0.13/1M API est. · commercial OK
31. Qwen2-VL 7B Instruct — Alibaba, 8B · ~7.0 GB VRAM · $0.16/1M API est. · commercial OK
32. Qwen3 30B A3B — Qwen, 30.5B · ~22 GB VRAM · $0.34/1M API est. · commercial OK
33. Qwen2.5 14B Instruct — Qwen, 14.8B · ~14 GB VRAM · $0.22/1M API est. · commercial OK
34. TinyLlama 1.1B Chat v1.0 — TinyLlama, 1.1B · ~2.0 GB VRAM · $0.11/1M API est. · commercial OK
35. Rio 3.0 Open Mini — prefeitura-rio, 4B · ~5.0 GB VRAM · $0.13/1M API est. · commercial OK
36. Qwen3.6 35B A3B NVFP4 — nvidia, 18.7B · ~22 GB VRAM · $0.25/1M API est. · commercial OK
37. Qwen3 14B — Qwen, 14.8B · ~13 GB VRAM · $0.22/1M API est. · commercial OK
38. gpt2 large — openai-community, 800M · ~2.0 GB VRAM · $0.11/1M API est. · commercial OK
39. Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct — Qwen, 30.5B · ~22 GB VRAM · $0.34/1M API est. · commercial OK
40. GLM 4.7 Flash — zai-org, 31.2B · ~28 GB VRAM · $0.35/1M API est. · commercial OK

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