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Qwen3-235B-A22B vs DeepSeek V4-Pro vs Kimi K3 vs Llama 5

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Open-Weight Models · verified 13 Aug 2026

×Qwen3-235B-A22BAlibabacurrent
×DeepSeek V4-ProDeepSeekcurrent
×Kimi K3Moonshot AIcurrent
×Llama 5Metacurrent
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SpecificationQwen3-235B-A22BDeepSeek V4-ProKimi K3Llama 5
SummaryCheapest capable model, most permissive licence.Best all-round open model of 2026.Largest open-weight model shipped.Open-weight flagship with recursive self-improvement.
LicenceApache-2.0MITOpen weightsLlama licence
Parameters235B MoE—2.8T600B+
Released——17 Jul 2026—
CategoryOpen-Weight ModelsOpen-Weight ModelsOpen-Weight ModelsOpen-Weight Models
OfficialAlibaba ↗DeepSeek ↗Moonshot AI ↗Meta ↗

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Qwen3-235B-A22B

  • No licence conditions whatsoever
  • 22B active of 235B total

Best for commercial self-hosting.

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DeepSeek V4-Pro

  • Tops open leaderboards on agentic coding and reasoning
  • MIT licence — no conditions
  • Pioneered aggressive cache-hit pricing at ~$0.07/M

Best for everything open.

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Kimi K3

  • Tops the Frontend Code Arena
  • 76.8% on SWE-Bench Verified

Best for coding.

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Llama 5

  • Refines its own reasoning and generates synthetic training data

Best for open frontier.

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