# DefaultModel: Hosting only one model, the best open source model

> Source: <https://defaultmodel.ai>
> Published: 2026-09-02 16:37:47+00:00

Open source models are amazing but hosting them reliably is not. Closed source labs are reliable and low cost as they can aggregate volume mostly to their latest model. At the pace of open source development, current inference providers constantly have to host multiple models, optimize for all of them, and split their GPU resources to serve them all. We're taking a different approach. We'll only host one model based, the best open source model voted by the community, and optimize specifically for it while providing all the GPU resources to it giving you reliability of a large lab for open models.

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Hosted in America 🇺🇸

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Zero data retention by design

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99.9% uptime with no degraded serving

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Parameters

320B MoE (18B active)

Context

1M

Modalities

Text, Image, Video

In/Out/Cache price

$0.50 / $1.00 / $0.15 per 1M

Chat completion standard compatible

OpenAI SDK

Vercel AI SDK

LangChain

``` python
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.defaultmodel.ai/v1",
  apiKey: process.env.DEFAULTMODEL_API_KEY,
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "glm-5.3-flash",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Explain mixture-of-experts models in one paragraph." }],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);
```

0 votes

A challenger replaces GLM 5.3 Flash only if it wins. One vote per person.

One model means all our capacity serves it: 99.9% uptime, high token throughput in and out, and no degraded or quantized serving.

Latency

1.9s

Throughput

110 tps

Uptime

99.98%

Recent uptime

99.98%

Last 72 hours

72h

48h

24h

Now

Throughput
