Models & Providers

Choosing between frontier APIs, open weights, and self-hosting — and the trade-offs behind each.

20 articles

Qwen

Listed inQwenModels & Providerson

Alibaba's open family, strong on multilingual and coding workloads.

Intermediate4 minDraft
#open-weights

Cohere

Listed inCohereModels & Providerson

Enterprise-focused generation, reranking, and embedding models.

Intermediate4 minDraft
#providers

Ollama

Listed inOllamaModels & Providerson

The fastest way to run open models locally and expose an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Beginner5 minDraft
#local

Gemma

Listed inGemmaModels & Providerson

Google's small open models, sized for laptops and edge deployment.

Intermediate4 minDraft
#open-weights

Mistral

Listed inMistralModels & Providerson

Small, fast, permissively licensed models and mixture-of-experts variants.

Intermediate5 minDraft
#open-weights