
Open Source LLMs Near Proprietary in Benchmarks
whatllm.org's January 2026 report benchmarks 94 LLM endpoints, showing open source models within 5 QI points of proprietary leaders. Top open source like GLM-4.7 (68 QI) and DeepSeek V3.2 rival Gemini 3 Pro (73 QI) and GPT-5.2. Open source slashes costs dramatically, e.g., $0.30/M vs $3.50/M, with the gap narrowing from 12 points earlier.








