Leading Frontier AI Models: The Capability Ceiling (August 2026)
What sits at the top of the field right now, hosted or downloadable, with every licence, price and index score re-read from a primary source today.
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What sits at the top of the field right now, hosted or downloadable, with every licence, price and index score re-read from a primary source today.
Sixteen downloadable-weight models ranked by capability and licence, with every parameter count and licence re-checked against the Hugging Face API.
A tier-by-tier comparison of the top open-weight LLMs you can run locally, from 8GB laptops to 24GB gaming GPUs to Apple Silicon Macs.