Anthropic's Opus model released April 2026, since succeeded by Opus 4.8 and Opus 5.5. Strong at coding, long-context analysis, and agentic work. 1M context, $5/$25 per million tokens.
Claude Opus 4.7 was Anthropic's top Opus model when it shipped in April 2026, with a focus on staying coherent across long agent runs and a 1M token context window for whole-codebase reasoning. It is priced at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. Anthropic has since released Claude Opus 4.8 (May 28, 2026) and Claude Opus 5.5 (September 22, 2026), and as of October 2026 Opus 5.5 is the default model in Claude Code. Opus 4.7 remains active in the API, with retirement not sooner than April 16, 2027, so pin it only if your evals depend on its behavior.
Anthropic's model family. As of October 2026: Opus 5.5 as the default, Fable 5.1 for the hardest long-horizon work, Sonnet 5.5 for speed, Haiku 5.5 for cost. 1M context. Max from $100/mo.
Chinese lab shipping open-weight MoE models. The V4 family (previewed April 24, 2026) runs a 1M context on DeepSeek's API; R1 (2025) popularized open reasoning models. Low-cost API.
OpenAI's GPT-5 model, released August 2025. Unified fast and reasoning modes in one model. Superseded by the GPT-6 family in September 2026 and now marked deprecated in the API.
Google's model family. As of October 2026 Gemini 3.8 Flash (1M token context, free tier in AI Studio) leads the API lineup, with Gemini 3.1 Pro for complex reasoning.
Anthropic's Opus model released April 2026, since succeeded by Opus 4.8 and Opus 5.5. Strong at coding, long-context analysis, and agentic work. 1M context, $5/$25 per million tokens.
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Subscribe FreeAnthropic's model family. As of October 2026: Opus 5.5 as the default, Fable 5.1 for the hardest long-horizon work, Sonnet 5.5 for speed, Haiku 5.5 for cost. 1M context. Max from $100/mo.
OpenAI's chat app. As of October 2026 Free and Go run GPT-6 Luna; Plus ($20/mo) adds GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra. Agent mode, Codex, image generation, code interpreter.
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