AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Step 3.7 Flash
Flash-speed agents model that can see and act
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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MiMo-V2-Flash▲241Ultra-fast 309B MoE model for coding & agents
Dec 2025 · mimo.xiaomi.com · its alternatives →
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Frontier agent intelligence at Flash prices
Aug 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.5▲288The 397B native multimodal agent with 17B active params
Feb 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Henry from Cactus here! We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes, small robots and microcontrollers. We got really great feedback here, and have now incorporated the suggestions to release Needle 2. The whole model is a single 14MB binary that runs a full session in 28MB of RAM; 45m parameters at 2bit compression. Needle hits 500 tokens/sec decode speed on a Raspberry Pi 5, sits between 400-1,500 tokens/sec on VR devices like Meta Quest 3S and Apple Vision Pro, and ranges…
Aug 2026 · cactuscompute.com · its alternatives →
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Gemini 2.5 Flash▲369I built a small project that integrates Gemini Flash Image but makes it more affordable to use compared to the official API. It allows you to generate high-quality images with the same model, and also provides simple editing features for refining results. The goal is to make experimenting with Google’s image model cheaper and more accessible for people who create a lot of images.
2025 · developers.googleblog.com · its alternatives →
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Hello! We just released freeact (https://github.com/gradion-ai/freeact), a lightweight agent library that empowers language models to act as autonomous agents through executable code actions. By enabling agents to express their actions directly in code rather than through constrained formats like JSON, freeact provides a flexible and powerful approach to solving complex, open-ended problems that require dynamic solution paths. * Supports dynamic installation and utilization of Python packages at runtime * Agents learn from feedback and store successful code actions as…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b open-weight language models
2025 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Agentic visual reasoning with code execution
Jan 2026 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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Enhanced reasoning model from google
2025 · deepmind.google · its alternatives →
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I’ve been building Echo (https://echo.tracerml.ai/), an experiment in making one AI system out of a pool of open-weight models rather than choosing a single model and using it for every task. It started with a simple experiment. I took a group of models, including GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7 and others, and ran them on the same evaluations. Then I measured what would happen if, for each problem, you somehow knew in advance which models would be useful and how their outputs should be combined. That hypothetical system performed substantially better than any individual model in the pool.…
Jul 2026 · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B▲124The open sparse MoE model for agentic coding
Apr 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.6-27B▲120The sweet-spot open dense model for coding agents
Apr 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Bullet▲240Hi HN, excited to be sharing this with you guys today. TL;DR: Bullet is a fast coding agent. At our company, we were burning hours waiting on agent runs. The models weren’t the problem. The agent loops around them were slow (unnecessary planning, oversized context, repeated searches, and serial tool calls). So we built Bullet as a passion project, the goal being to help you iterate faster, without giving up quality: - It automatically selects the model and reasoning level for each prompt. - It runs independent searches, reads, and commands in parallel. - It uses targeted code search instead…
Aug 2026 · codewithbullet.com · its alternatives →
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Mistral Small 3▲446High performance in a 24b open-source model
2025 · mistral.ai · its alternatives →
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Powers faster, efficient reasoning for long-running agents
Jun 2026 · developer.nvidia.com · its alternatives →
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Freesolo Flash▲126Full-Stack Platform for Training Small Language Models
Jul 2026 · freesolo.co · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Nextfree tier▲108The open-weight preview of Qwen4
Aug 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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V-JEPA 2▲198Meta's world model for physical world understanding
2025 · ai.meta.com · its alternatives →
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GLM-5-Turbo▲289High-speed agentic model built specifically for OpenClaw
Mar 2026 · docs.z.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, We’ve been building browser agents for a while. In production, we kept converging on the same pattern: deterministic scripts for the happy path, agents only for edge cases. So we built Demonstrate Mode. The idea is simple: You perform your workflow once in a remote browser. Notte records the interactions and generates deterministic automation code. How it works: - Record clicks, inputs, navigations in a cloud browser - Compile them into deterministic code (no LLM at runtime) - Run and deploy on managed browser infrastructure Closest analog is Playwright codegen but: - Infrastructure…
2025 · notte.cc · its alternatives →
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Dream 7B▲191Powerful Open Diffusion LLM, Beyond Autoregressive
2025 · hkunlp.github.io · its alternatives →
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