
GPT-5.4 mini
OpenAI's mid-range model in the GPT-5.4 family delivers near-flagship coding and agentic performance at $0.75/M input tokens with a 400K context window.
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OpenAI's mid-range model in the GPT-5.4 family delivers near-flagship coding and agentic performance at $0.75/M input tokens with a 400K context window.

WeiboAI's 3B dense reasoning model fine-tuned from Qwen2.5-Coder-3B, posting AIME 2026 scores that match DeepSeek V3.2 (671B) using the Spectrum-to-Signal training pipeline.

Mistral AI's mid-tier open-weight edge model - 8B parameters, 256K context, Apache 2.0 license, built for agentic pipelines and cost-sensitive production workloads.

Mistral AI's largest Ministral 3 model - 14B parameters, 256K context, Apache 2.0 license, multimodal, built for local deployment and agentic workflows.

Google DeepMind's new QAT checkpoints shrink the Gemma 4 E2B model to under 1GB, making serious on-device AI viable for phones and budget laptops.

Mistral AI's smallest open-weight model - 3B parameters, 256K context, Apache 2.0 license, built for edge and cost-sensitive deployments.

Zyphra's ZAYA1-8B matches Claude 4.5 Sonnet on HMMT 2025 math benchmarks at just 760M active parameters, trained entirely on AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs under Apache 2.0.

Zyphra's ZAYA1-8B is an 8.4B-parameter MoE reasoning model with only 760M active parameters that matches DeepSeek-R1-0528 on math and coding benchmarks while running at a fraction of the compute cost.

Rankings of the best LLMs for on-device edge inference - phones, laptops without GPUs, Raspberry Pi, and Jetson - scored by quality benchmarks and real tokens/sec on iPhone, MacBook, and Raspberry Pi 5.

Google's AI Edge Gallery officially launched on the Play Store and App Store on April 9, running Gemma 4 E2B and E4B models fully offline on any phone from Android 12 or iOS 17 onward.

Microsoft's Phi-4 reasoning family delivers near-70B-class math performance in a 14B open-weight package, but the overthinking problem is real and the use case is narrower than the benchmarks suggest.

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano 4B packs a Mamba-dominant hybrid architecture, 262K token context, and 95.4% on MATH500 into a model that fits an 8GB Jetson Orin Nano.