---
title: "open-llms"
type: "tool"
slug: "eugeneyan-open-llms"
canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/tools/eugeneyan-open-llms"
github_url: "https://github.com/eugeneyan/open-llms"
homepage_url: null
stars: 12823
forks: 977
primary_language: null
license: "Apache-2.0"
categories: ["llm-frameworks"]
tags: ["llms", "llm", "large-language-models", "commercial"]
updated_at: "2026-07-07T18:31:29.387706+00:00"
---

# open-llms

> A curated list of open LLMs for commercial use

Repository containing a table of large language models (LLMs) that are available under permissive licenses such as Apache 2.0 and MIT, suitable for commercial applications.

## Facts

- Repository: https://github.com/eugeneyan/open-llms
- Stars: 12,823 · Forks: 977 · Open issues: 13 · Watchers: 255
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last pushed: 2025-02-13T06:37:12+00:00

## Categories

- [LLM Frameworks](/categories/llm-frameworks.md)

## Tags

llms, llm, large language models, commercial

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## README (excerpt)

```text
# Open LLMs

These LLMs (Large Language Models) are all licensed for commercial use (e.g., Apache 2.0, MIT, OpenRAIL-M). Contributions welcome!

| Language Model | Release Date | Checkpoints | Paper/Blog | Params (B) | Context Length | Licence | Try it                                                                                                                |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 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)                                               |
| 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         |                                                                                                                       |
| 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 |                                                                                                                       |
| 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 | |
| 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         |                                                                                                                       |
| 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) |                                                                                                                       |
| 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) | |
| Cerebras-GPT | 2023/03
```

---

**Machine-readable endpoints**

- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/eugeneyan-open-llms`](/api/graphcanon/tools/eugeneyan-open-llms)
- LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)
- Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt)

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