2026 Open Source AI Model Benchmarks: DeepSeek R1 vs Qwen3 vs Llama 4

Open-source large models are dropping several a month—DeepSeek R1, Qwen3, Llama 4... the names alone are dizzying. Which one is actually the strongest? Which is best for Chinese? And which can you actually run on your own machine?

💡 What You Will Learn

Open-source large models are dropping several a month—DeepSeek R1, Qwen3, Llama 4... the names alone are dizzying. Which one is actually the strongest? Which is best for Chinese? And which can you act

|:----|:-----:|:--------:|:-------:|:-------:| | DeepSeek R1 | 7B/14B ||| 8GB/16GB | | Qwen3-7B/14B/32B | 7-32B ||| 8-24GB | | Llama 4-8B/70B | 8-70B ||| 8-48GB | | Mistral Small 3 | 24B ||| 16GB | | Gemma 3-27B | 27B ||| 20GB | - Qwen3-7B: ~80 tokens/s - DeepSeek R1-7B: ~75 tokens/s - Llama 4-8B: ~60 tokens/s |:--------|:-----| - DeepSeek vs Qwen3