Alternatives to AREX-2

These tools sit near AREX-2. Compare features and pricing before you switch.

Alternatives

If AREX-2 is not the right fit, consider these alternatives:

Qwen3.8-Max: A much larger open-weight flagship with multimodal input and broad availability.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash: A more widely benchmarked lightweight model family if you need proven local coding performance.
MiniMax H3: A video model with broad availability when you need a different production-scale checkpoint.

Alibaba's 2.4T-parameter open-weight flagship: 95B active MoE, text/image/video input, 1M context, at $2/$6 per million tokens.

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DeepSeek small agent model: 284B/13B MoE, 1M context, MIT weights, $0.14/$0.28 per 1M tokens.

45000000DR: 95AS: 88

MiniMax open multimodal video model (July 31, 2026): text/image/video/audio in, 768P or 2K out, 4-15s clips, native stereo, pay-as-you-go API.

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