Model Scout

Find open models on Hugging Face for what you are building, with reasons in plain English, licence notes, and where you can run them today.

1. What are you building?

A chat companion or characterBack-and-forth conversation with a consistent personality.A story, script or roleplay writerLong-form creative text, characters, dialogue.Narration or voice-overTurn written text into spoken audio.A document summariser or assistantReads long documents, answers questions, drafts replies.A coding assistantWrites and explains code.Something elsePick the kind of model yourself.

2. What matters to you? Suggested for this choice come first.

Explicit contentFast repliesCheap to runFree for commercial useBest qualityBritish EnglishMany languagesLong conversationsSmall enough for a laptopNo sign-up or approval needed

Long conversations: Prefers models that can keep at least 32,000 tokens of context.

3. Anything else? Optional.

Where will it run?

Without managing serversI will host it myself

Language

Provider policy table reviewed 2026-10-07. Terms change; confirm before you launch.

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