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Contributions welcome!\n\n| Language Model | Release Date | Checkpoints | Paper/Blog | Params (B) | Context Length | Licence | Try it                                                                                                                |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| T5           | 2019/10 |[T5 & Flan-T5](https://github.com/google-research/t5x/blob/main/docs/models.md#flan-t5-checkpoints), [Flan-T5-xxl (HF)](https://huggingface.co/google/flan-t5-xxl)      | [Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer](https://github.com/google-research/text-to-text-transfer-transformer#released-model-checkpoints) | 0.06 - 11       | [512](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/does-t5-truncate-input-longer-than-512-internally/3602) | Apache 2.0         | [T5-Large](https://github.com/slai-labs/get-beam/tree/main/examples/t5)                                               |\n| RWKV 4        | 2021/08| [RWKV, ChatRWKV](https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM#rwkv-parallelizable-rnn-with-transformer-level-llm-performance-pronounced-as-rwakuv-from-4-major-params-r-w-k-v) | [The RWKV Language Model (and my LM tricks)](https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM)                                           | 0.1 - 14      | [infinity (RNN)](https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM#rwkv-parallelizable-rnn-with-transformer-level-llm-performance-pronounced-as-rwakuv-from-4-major-params-r-w-k-v) | Apache 2.0         |                                                                                                                       |\n| GPT-NeoX-20B | 2022/04 | [GPT-NEOX-20B](https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-neox-20b) | [GPT-NeoX-20B: An Open-Source Autoregressive Language Model](https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06745) | 20 | [2048](https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-neox-20b) | Apache 2.0 |                                                                                                                       |\n| YaLM-100B | 2022/06 | [yalm-100b](https://huggingface.co/yandex/yalm-100b) | [Yandex publishes YaLM 100B, the largest GPT-like neural network in open source](https://yandex.com/company/press_center/press_releases/2022/2022-23-06) | 100 | [1024](https://github.com/yandex/YaLM-100B/blob/main/examples/generate_interactive.sh) | Apache 2.0 | |\n| UL2          | 2022/10 | [UL2 & Flan-UL2](https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/master/ul2#checkpoints), [Flan-UL2 (HF)](https://huggingface.co/google/flan-ul2)          | [UL2 20B: An Open Source Unified Language Learner](https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/10/ul2-20b-open-source-unified-language.html)                                                       | 20             | [512, 2048](https://huggingface.co/google/flan-ul2#tldr) | Apache 2.0         |                                                                                                                       |\n| Bloom | 2022/11 | [Bloom](https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom) | [BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05100) | 176 | [2048](https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom) |  [OpenRAIL-M v1](https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/bigcode-model-license-agreement) |                                                                                                                       |\n| ChatGLM | 2023/03 | [chatglm-6b](https://huggingface.co/THUDM/chatglm-6b) | [ChatGLM](https://zhipuai.cn/en/news/61), [Github](https://github.com/THUDM/ChatGLM-6B/blob/main/README_en.md) | 6 | [2048](https://huggingface.co/THUDM/chatglm-6b/blob/main/config.json) | [Custom](https://huggingface.co/THUDM/chatglm-6b/blob/main/MODEL_LICENSE) Free with some usage restriction (might require registration) | |\n| Cerebras-GPT | 2023/03","github_created_at":"2023-05-05T16:35:37+00:00","created_at":"2026-07-07T17:33:45.13715+00:00","updated_at":"2026-08-17T06:01:43.784379+00:00","categories":[{"slug":"llm-frameworks","name":"LLM Frameworks","url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/categories/llm-frameworks","markdown_url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/categories/llm-frameworks.md","api_url":"https://www.graphcanon.com/api/graphcanon/categories/llm-frameworks"}],"tags":[{"slug":"commercial","name":"commercial"},{"slug":"large-language-models","name":"large language models"},{"slug":"llm","name":"llm"},{"slug":"llms","name":"llms"}],"trust":{"provenance":{"is_fork":false,"github_id":636787031,"owner_type":"User","methodology":"github_public_v1","parent_repo":null,"near_duplicate_slugs":[]},"computed_at":"2026-08-17T06:01:43.083Z","maintenance":{"label":"Dormant","score":18,"methodology":"github_public_v1","releases_90d":0,"days_since_push":549,"last_release_at":null,"stars_delta_30d":18,"open_issues_delta_30d":-2},"security_summary":{"status":"no_lockfile","scanner":null,"low_count":0,"high_count":0,"last_scan_at":"2026-07-11T11:01:51.641Z","medium_count":0,"scan_profile":"none","critical_count":0}},"capability_facts":{"scan":{"source":"repo_scan","observed_at":"2026-08-17T06:01:43.522Z"},"license_spdx":{"value":"Apache-2.0","source":"github.license","observed_at":"2026-08-17T06:01:43.522Z"}},"decision_facts":{"hosting":null,"pricing":{"model":"freemium","summary":"Free and open-source models for commercial use are listed here. Usage of the models themselves varies by license, with some possibly requiring contributions or acknowledgements."},"requirements":null,"constraints":{"pricing_model":"freemium"},"when_to_use":["When you need a curated list of open-source large language models (LLMs) that are specifically licensed for commercial use.","For projects requiring access to a variety of LLMs with differing parameters, context lengths, and release dates to choose the most suitable model according to project needs."],"when_not_to_use":["If you require proprietary or closed-source LLMs as this repository exclusively lists open-source models that are available for commercial use under permissive licenses such as Apache 2.0.","For projects needing a detailed technical implementation guide of each listed LLM, since 'open-llms' acts primarily as an index rather than providing in-depth tutorials on implementing and training L4"],"source":"enrich:decision_facts","observed_at":"2026-07-11T15:19:08.507Z"},"constraint_facets":{"pricing_model":"freemium"},"decision_summary":[{"label":"Pricing","value":"freemium - Free and open-source models for commercial use are listed here. 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