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Anthropic's September 28, 2026 model and the second in the Claude 5.5 family after Opus 5.5, built for coding and agent workflows at Sonnet pricing: $2 input and $10 output per million tokens, unchanged from Sonnet 5, with cache reads at $0.20 and cache writes at $2.50. It accepts text and image input, provides a 1M-token context window and up to 128K output, and keeps thinking on with adjustable effort (medium default in Claude apps, high on the Platform). Anthropic reports roughly 30% faster and about 30% cheaper per task than Sonnet 5, Terminal-Bench 4.0 of 70.6% (up from Sonnet 5's 10.3%) and near-Opus-5.5 results on GDPval-AA, and it is the first Sonnet released under Opus-class cyber safeguards. Artificial Analysis has not yet published an Intelligence Index for it, so these are vendor figures.

OpenAI's September 22, 2026 GPT-6 model for complex professional work, halving prices to $2 input and $10 output per million tokens versus GPT-5.6 Sol. Supports text and image input, text output and adjustable reasoning effort from none to max (default medium), with a 1.05M-token context window and up to 128K output. Cached input is $0.20 and cache writes $2.50; above 272K input tokens the full request costs 2x input and 1.5x output rates, and Batch/Flex run at 50% while Fast runs at 2x. On Artificial Analysis it scores 48 on the Intelligence Index and posts Terminal-Bench 4.0 of 44%, with OpenAI reporting DeepSWE v1.1 68.8%.

Google's September 2, 2026 Flash model for coding and agent workflows, described by Google as its best reasoning and coding model yet at the same speed and cost as 3.7 Flash. It accepts text, images, audio, video and PDFs, with a 1,048,576-token input limit and a 65,536-token text-output limit, and thinking levels of low, medium and high. Standard Gemini API rates are $0.75/$3.75 per MTok (input/output) through December 31, 2026, then $1.50/$7.50 from January 1, 2027, with cached input at $0.075. Google reports DeepSWE v1.1 73.7% and roughly 40% more work completed per task than 3.7 Flash.

Zhipu's August 14, 2026 coding and agentic model, built on the GLM-5.2 base with further post-training. Z.ai reports Terminal-Bench 3.0 of 28.3 and DeepSWE v1.1 of 66.9. Published weights use the custom GLM-5.3 license; hosted access is available through Z.ai and the GLM Coding Plan. Text-only input, a documented 1M-token context window and up to 128K output, with reasoning always enabled. Useful for coding teams that need long-running agents or self-hosted deployment under the model license.

Meta's August 5, 2026 coding-focused update to Muse Spark 1.1, released in Muse Code and Meta Model API. Co-trained with Muse Code for code generation, debugging, codebase understanding and long-horizon developer workflows. Supports image and video reasoning and audiovisual workflows. Meta launched the later Muse Spark 1.3 generation on September 2, 2026.

Google's July 21, 2026 low-latency model for subagent tasks and high-volume document processing. Accepts text, images, video, audio and PDFs, with 1M input tokens and up to 65K text output. Standard API rates are $0.30 input and $2.50 output per million tokens; batch rates are $0.15/$1.25. Standard cached input costs $0.03 per million tokens, with cache storage billed separately.

OpenAI's July 9, 2026 GPT-5.6 model balancing intelligence and cost. Supports text and image input, text output and adjustable reasoning effort, with a 1.05M-token context window and up to 128K output. API prices fell 20% on July 30 to $2 input and $12 output per million tokens; cached input is $0.20. Above 272K input tokens, the full request costs 2x input and 1.5x output rates. Cache writes cost 1.25x the uncached input rate.

Alibaba's June 2026 Qwen3.7-Plus is a hosted model accepting text, images and video with a 1M-token context. Its preserve_thinking option retains reasoning across tool calls. Current provider rates depend on input length and promotional discounts, so a single price ratio against Max does not describe all requests.

Mistral's April 28, 2026 model (v26.04), combining instruction-following, reasoning, and coding in 128B dense parameters. It supports vision, function calling, configurable reasoning, and a 256K-token context. Published weights use a Modified MIT license. Mistral lists standard provider API pricing of $1.50/$7.50 per MTok for input/output. Its May 22 product announcement made the model the default in Vibe CLI and Le Chat.

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is the July 31, 2026 text-only V4 Flash release, with 284B total and 13B active parameters, a 1M-token context and MIT weights. DeepSeek retired its first-party V4 Flash service on September 10, 2026. The legacy deepseek-v4-flash slug now temporarily routes to the newer, vision-capable DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. These historical weights retain their own architecture and modalities.

Google DeepMind's open-weight Gemma 4 family, announced April 2, 2026 under Apache 2.0. The family now includes E2B, E4B, 12B, 26B A4B and 31B; 12B Unified was added June 3. E2B/E4B support 128K context, while 12B/26B A4B/31B support 256K. All accept text and images and produce text; audio input is supported by E2B, E4B and 12B. The family supports configurable thinking and function calling for local and server deployments.

MiniMax introduced M3 on June 1, 2026 with MiniMax Sparse Attention, native text, image and video input, and a 1M-token context. Published weights use the MiniMax community license. The standard provider API costs $0.30/$1.20 per MTok (input/output) for requests with at most 512K input tokens; both rates double above that threshold. Optional priority service costs 1.5 times the corresponding standard rate. MiniMax labels these standard rates a permanent 50% discount.

Mistral's March 16, 2026 unified model: merges Magistral (reasoning), Pixtral (vision), and Devstral (agentic coding) into a single 119B-total MoE with 6.5B active per token. 256K context, Apache 2.0, configurable reasoning effort.

Anthropic's October 15, 2025 Haiku model for fast, cost-sensitive work. It accepts text and images and produces text, with a 200K-token context window, up to 64K output and optional extended thinking. Standard Claude API rates are $1/$5 per MTok (input/output). Anthropic's launch evaluation described coding performance similar to Sonnet 4 at more than twice its speed; that comparison is specific to the vendor's launch testing.