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
8Cohere: Command ACohere256K
Long context (128K+)
$2.50Standard
9Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-FlashXiaomi262K
Long context (128K+)
$0.09Budget
10Cohere: Command R (08-2024)Cohere128K
Long context (128K+)
$0.15Budget
11meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-InstructMeta131K
Long context (128K+)
$0.05Budget
12Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)Meta131K
Long context (128K+)
$0.00Budget
13Meta: Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta131K
Long context (128K+)
$0.10Budget
14Mistral: Mistral NemoMistral AI131K
Long context (128K+)
$0.02Budget
15Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B (free)Mistral AI128K
Long context (128K+)
$0.00Budget
16meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-InstructMeta60K
Short/standard context
$0.03Budget
17Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (free)Meta66K
Short/standard context
$0.00Budget
18DeepSeek Reasoner (legacy id)DeepSeek1M
Ultra context (1M+)
CustomVariable
19DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeek1.0M
Ultra context (1M+)
$0.14Budget
20DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek1.0M
Ultra context (1M+)
$0.09Budget
21DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek1.0M
Ultra context (1M+)
$0.43Budget
22Google: Gemma 3n 2B (free)Google8K
Short/standard context
$0.00Budget
23BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3Hugging FaceUnknown
Unknown context
CustomVariable
24baidu/Unlimited-OCRHugging FaceUnknown
Unknown context
CustomVariable
25cross-encoder/mmarco-mMiniLMv2-L12-H384-v1Hugging FaceUnknown
Unknown context
CustomVariable

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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