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A curated list of recommended open models suitable for common use cases.

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Which models should I use?

There is no single right answer! The following is a curated list based on Myrouter internal testing, community feedback, and external benchmarks. We recommend using it as a starting point and will update it regularly as new models become available.
  • Model sizes are labeled as Small, Medium, or Large
  • For best latency, use Small or Medium models. For best quality, use Large models or fine-tune Medium or Small models.
  • You can explore all models in the Myrouter model library
Use CaseRecommended Model
Code Generation & ReasoningClaude series (Large/Medium/Small)
Deepseek-r1-0528 (Large)
Deepseek-v3-0324 (Large)
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct (Large)
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 (Large)
Kimi-K2-Instruct (Medium)
GLM-4.5 (Medium)
General Reasoning & PlanningDeepseek-r1-0528 (Large)
Deepseek-v3-0324 (Large)
Qwen-2.5-72b-instruct (Medium)
Llama-3.3-70b-instruct (Medium)
Function Calling & Tool UseQwen3-235b-a22b-fp8 (Large)
Qwen 3 series (Large/Medium/Small)
Long Context & SummarizationLlama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8 (Large)
Llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct (Medium)
Vision & Document UnderstandingLlama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8 (Large)
Qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct (Medium)
Llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct (Medium)
Low-Latency NLU & ExtractionLlama-3.1-8b-instruct (Small)
Llama-3.2-3b-instruct (Small)