Use case

Best multilingual AI models

Includes Chinese-strong models (Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, MiniMax, Kimi, ERNIE), European leaders (Mistral, Cohere), and the global frontier APIs.

Top 25 models for non-English languages

#ModelProviderContextInput price / 1MTier
1Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Qwen262K
Long context (128K+)
$0.05Budget
2Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507Qwen262K
Long context (128K+)
$0.09Budget
3Qwen: Qwen3 MaxQwen262K
Long context (128K+)
$0.78Budget
4Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructQwen262K
Long context (128K+)
$0.09Budget
5Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free)Qwen262K
Long context (128K+)
$0.00Budget
6Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3BQwen131K
Long context (128K+)
$0.12Budget
7Qwen: Qwen2.5-VL 7B InstructQwen33K
Short/standard context
$0.20Budget
8ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-CodeBytedance Seed262K
Long context (128K+)
$0.50Budget
9Cohere: Command ACohere256K
Long context (128K+)
$2.50Standard
10Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-FlashXiaomi262K
Long context (128K+)
$0.09Budget
11Cohere: Command R (08-2024)Cohere128K
Long context (128K+)
$0.15Budget
12meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-InstructMeta131K
Long context (128K+)
$0.05Budget
13IBM: Granite 4.2 8BIbm Granite131K
Long context (128K+)
$0.06Budget
14Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)Meta131K
Long context (128K+)
$0.00Budget
15Meta: Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta131K
Long context (128K+)
$0.10Budget
16Mistral: Mistral NemoMistral AI131K
Long context (128K+)
$0.02Budget
17Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B (free)Mistral AI128K
Long context (128K+)
$0.00Budget
18meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-InstructMeta60K
Short/standard context
$0.03Budget
19Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (free)Meta66K
Short/standard context
$0.00Budget
20DeepSeek Reasoner (legacy id)DeepSeek1M
Ultra context (1M+)
CustomVariable
21DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeek1.0M
Ultra context (1M+)
$0.09Budget
22DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek1.3M
Ultra context (1M+)
$0.04Budget
23DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (batch)DeepSeek1.0M
Ultra context (1M+)
$0.11Budget
24DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (free)DeepSeek1.0M
Ultra context (1M+)
$0.00Budget
25DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeek1.0M
Ultra context (1M+)
$0.22Budget

Frequently asked questions

Which model is best for Chinese?

Qwen, GLM (Z.AI), Kimi (Moonshot), DeepSeek, and ERNIE (Baidu) all train heavily on Chinese corpora. For mixed Chinese/English, Qwen and GLM are strong defaults.

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