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Open-Source Alternatives to Command A+

The best open-weight, self-hostable alternatives to Command A+ in 2026 — compared on price, context window and capabilities. Run them locally and cut API costs.

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The best open-weight alternatives to Command A+

Command A+ is a proprietary, API-only model. These open-weight models can be self-hosted, run offline and used at a fraction of the cost — here's how the top ones stack up.

XI MiMo-V2.6-Pro Open

Xiaomi · 1.1M ctx · $0.87/M out

33.2 pts ABOVE Command A+ on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index · 1.7× cheaper per million output tokens

MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the flagship foundation model developed by Xiaomi. Built at a scale of over 1T parameters, it is designed to push the ceiling of capability for the most demanding...

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Open

DeepSeek · 1M ctx · $0.6/M out

32.0 pts ABOVE Command A+ on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index · 2.5× cheaper per million output tokens

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the October 17, 2026 snapshot of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, served by DeepSeek under the `deepseek-flash` API model name. V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model...

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MiniMax M3.1 Flash Open

MiniMax · 1M ctx · $0.6/M out

29.6 pts ABOVE Command A+ on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index · 2.5× cheaper per million output tokens

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is a multimodal model from MiniMax. Compared with M3, it delivers significant improvements across multiple benchmarks, particularly in complex agentic tasks, coding, and cybersecurity. It is built for complex,...

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Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Open

NVIDIA · 1M ctx · $0.5/M out

13.4 pts ABOVE Command A+ on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index · 3.0× cheaper per million output tokens

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is an open multimodal mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA, with 12B active parameters out of 120B total. It takes text, images, documents, GUI screenshots, and video...

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TH Inkling Small Open

Thinkingmachines · 524K ctx · $1.2/M out

12.6 pts ABOVE Command A+ on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index · 1.3× cheaper per million output tokens

Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of...

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Gemma 4 26B A4B Open

Google · 262K ctx · $0.26/M out

3.6 pts ABOVE Command A+ on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index · 5.8× cheaper per million output tokens

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is an instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Google DeepMind. Despite 25.2B total parameters, only 3.8B activate per token during inference — delivering near-31B quality at...

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