Open Models
Granite alternatives
15 alternatives to Granite (IBM) from the Open Models category of the index.
- Baichuan (Baichuan Intelligence) — Open-weight bilingual large language model family from Beijing-based Baichuan Intelligence. Open (open weights/source)
- Command R (Cohere) — Cohere's family of open-weight large language models optimized for retrieval-augmented generation and tool use. Open (open weights/source)
- DBRX (Databricks) — Open-weight mixture-of-experts large language model released by Databricks. Open (open weights/source)
- DeepSeek (DeepSeek) — Open-weight LLM family and chat assistant from Hangzhou-based DeepSeek, known for strong reasoning models. Open (open weights/source)
- Falcon (Technology Innovation Institute) — Family of open-weight large language models developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII). Open (open weights/source)
- Gemma (Google DeepMind) — Google's family of lightweight open-weight models derived from the same research as Gemini. Open (open weights/source)
- GLM (Zhipu AI) — Family of open-weight large language models from Zhipu AI, spanning general, reasoning, and coding-focused variants. Open (open weights/source)
- Jamba (AI21 Labs) — Open model family from AI21 Labs that combines Transformer and state-space (Mamba) architectures. Open (open weights/source)
- Llama (Meta) — Open-weight large language model family from Meta, spanning multiple sizes and generations. Open (open weights/source)
- Mistral (Mistral AI) — Family of open-weight large language models from Mistral AI, including the Mistral and Mixtral series. Open (open weights/source)
- Nemotron (NVIDIA) — Family of open language models released by NVIDIA for enterprise and research use. Open (open weights/source)
- OLMo (Allen Institute for AI) — Fully open large language model family from Ai2, released with its training data, code, and weights. Open (open weights/source)
- Phi (Microsoft) — Family of small open-weight language models from Microsoft, designed for strong reasoning at compact sizes. Open (open weights/source)
- Qwen (Alibaba) — Family of open-weight large language models developed by Alibaba, spanning text, vision, and coding tasks. Open (open weights/source)
- Yi (01.AI) — Open-weight bilingual (English and Chinese) large language model family from 01.AI. Open (open weights/source)