Model Selection 2025–2026

Match use case to the right open-weight model

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Overview: Model Selection 2025–2026

The open-weight model landscape changes monthly. What matters: benchmark scores on YOUR task, context window, license constraints, and inference speed on YOUR hardware. Qwen 2.5 and DeepSeek-V3 dominated the 2025 open-weight rankings; Phi-4 leads for small-hardware reasoning.

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