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Best compact MoE — Apache 2.0. Compare 10 similar free AI tools.

1. Qwen 2.5 / Qwen 3 — Apache 2.0; 29+ languages; 235B MoE (Free: Apache 2.0; no restrictions)
2. Mistral AI API — European AI — 1B free tokens/month, open-weight models (Free: 1B tokens/month free; Codestral included)
3. Whisper — Best open ASR — 99+ languages (Free: MIT; 39M–1.5B params)
4. HF Transformers — Unified API for 1M+ models — 152K stars (Free: Apache 2.0)
5. Unsloth — 2–5× faster, 80% less VRAM fine-tuning (Free: Apache 2.0)
6. DeepSeek-V3 / R1 — Rivals GPT-4; R1 = chain-of-thought reasoning (Free: 671B MoE; fully open)
7. Together AI — 200+ open-source models on dedicated clusters (Free: Up to $100 free credits)
8. PyTorch — Dominant DL framework — ~87K stars (Free: BSD-3)
9. LangChain — LLM orchestration — 700+ integrations (Free: MIT)
10. LLaMA-Factory — Zero-code fine-tuning Web UI — 40K+ stars (Free: Apache 2.0)

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