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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.
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.
Anthropic's first generally available Mythos-class model, released June 9, 2026. 1M context, 128K max output, $10/$50 per million tokens. Built for long-horizon agentic work.
Anthropic's smallest Claude 4.5 model, released October 2025 and succeeded by Haiku 5.5 in October 2026. Sonnet 4-level coding at one-third the cost. $1/$5 per million tokens.
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.
Anthropic's Opus model released May 28, 2026, and its recommended default until Opus 5.5 shipped in September 2026. 1M context, 128K output, $5/$25 per million tokens.
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.
DeepSeek's reasoning-first model built for agents. First model to integrate thinking directly into tool use. Ships alongside V3.2-Speciale, which rivals GPT-5 and Gemini 3.0 Pro.
DeepSeek's open-weights frontier family, previewed April 24, 2026. V4-Pro is 1.6T total / 49B active params; V4-Flash is 284B / 13B. 1M context standard. Weights on Hugging Face.
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.
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 Superseded by the GPT-6 family in September 2026 and now marked deprecated in the API.
xAI's model family, now documented under the SpaceXAI name. Grok 4.7 (September 21, 2026) has a 500K context at $2/$6 per million tokens, plus an X Search tool. OpenAI-compatible API.
Meta's open-weight model family. Llama 4, released April 5, 2025, comes in Scout (109B total, 17B active) and Maverick (400B total, 17B active). Commercial use under the Llama license.
European open-weight models. Mistral Large for complex tasks, Mistral Small for speed, Codestral for code. Strong multilingual support. Open and API options.
Unified API for hundreds of models. One API key, one billing dashboard. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and more. Automatic fallbacks and load balancing.
Alibaba's open-weight coding model, released in 2025. 480B total parameters, 35B active (MoE). Native 256K context, extends to 1M. Apache 2.0 license. Built for agentic coding.
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