Comment by alwillis

The next best thing is to use the leading open source/open weights models for free or for pennies on OpenRouter [1] or Huggingface [2].

An article about the best open weight models, including Qwen and Kimi K2 [3].

[1]: https://openrouter.ai/models

[2]: https://huggingface.co

[3]: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/