The best open-weight, self-hostable alternatives to GPT-5.4 Mini in 2026 — compared on price, context window and capabilities. Run them locally and cut API costs.
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GPT-5.4 Mini 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.
14.9 pts ABOVE GPT-5.4 Mini on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index · 7.5× cheaper per million output tokens
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, and the first built on the company's Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture. It activates 8B parameters on input and 16B on...
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs GPT-5.4 Mini →5.0 pts ABOVE GPT-5.4 Mini on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index · 3.8× cheaper per million output tokens
MiniMax-M3 is a multimodal foundation model from MiniMax. It supports text, image, and video inputs with text output, a 1M-token context window, and is suited for long-horizon agentic work, coding,...
MiniMax M3 vs GPT-5.4 Mini →1.5 pts ABOVE GPT-5.4 Mini on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index · 3.8× 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...
Inkling Small vs GPT-5.4 Mini →Live ranking of open-weight models with pricing, context windows and capabilities.
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