The best open-weight Qwen model is Qwen3.5 397B A17B (40.1 intelligence) — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable. Qwen3.5-27B (37.2) and Qwen3.6 27B (37.1) round out the top three.
The best open-weight AI models — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable — ranked by intelligence. Open-source alternatives to proprietary frontier models.
The best open-weight Qwen model is Qwen3.5 397B A17B (40.1 intelligence) — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable. Qwen3.5-27B (37.2) and Qwen3.6 27B (37.1) round out the top three.
Qwen3.5-27B (37.2) is the closest alternative on this metric, followed by Qwen3.6 27B (37.1). See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.
modelgrep tracks 49 Qwen models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing, led on intelligence by Qwen3.7 Max. 25 of them qualify for this ranking.