Two open-weight Chinese MoEs landed within 24 hours: Ant Ling-2.6-flash (104B/7.4B active, 7x token-efficiency claim) and Tencent Hy3-preview (295B/21B active, frontier-tier open weights). Specs, licenses, and how they line up against DeepSeek-V3 and GLM-4.5.
OpenRouter ships :free models and a Free Router endpoint. Tested both for rate limits (50/day → 1,000/day after a $10 top-up), the tool-calling failure on free models, and which workloads they actually fit.
