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OpenAI's flagship. GPT-4o for general use, o3 for reasoning, Codex for coding. 300M+ weekly users. Tasks, agents, web browsing, DALL-E, code interpreter.
Anthropic's AI. Opus 4.6 for hard problems, Sonnet 4.6 for speed, Haiku 4.5 for cost. 200K context window. Best coding model I've tested. Max plan ($200/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. Near-frontier coding performance at one-third the cost of Sonnet 4 and up to 4-5x faster than Sonnet 4.5. $1/$5 per million tokens.
Anthropic's flagship reasoning model. Best-in-class for coding, long-context analysis, and agentic workflows. 1M token context window. Available via API and in Claude Code.
Anthropic's recommended default for complex work, released May 28, 2026. 1M context, 128K output, $5/$25 per million tokens. Defaults to high effort on all surfaces.
Open-source reasoning models from China. DeepSeek-R1 rivals o1 on math and code benchmarks. V3 for general use. Fully open weights. Extremely cost-effective 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 frontier model family. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 1M token context and top-tier coding benchmarks. Gemini 3 Pro pushes reasoning further. Free tier via AI Studio.
OpenAI's latest flagship model. Major leap in reasoning, coding, and instruction following over GPT-4o. Powers ChatGPT Plus/Pro and the API. Available via API and ChatGPT.
xAI's model with real-time X/Twitter data access. Grok 3 rivals top models on reasoning. Built-in web search and current events awareness. Available via API.
Meta's open-source model family. Llama 4 available in Scout (17B active) and Maverick (17B active, 128 experts). Free to use, modify, and deploy commercially.
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 200+ models. One API key, one billing dashboard. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and more. Automatic fallbacks and load balancing.
Alibaba's flagship open-weight coding model. 480B total parameters, 35B active (MoE). Native 256K context, scales to 1M. Apache 2.0 license. State-of-the-art agentic coding.
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