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Nano Banana 2.1
Google's Oct 6, 2026 update to Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) — Flash-speed image generation and editing at $0.0336 per 1K image, 4K output, search grounding, thinking levels and up to 14 reference images.
Gemini 4 Argon
Google DeepMind's Sept 30, 2026 frontier model — DeepSWE v1.1 77.9%, AutomationBench 51.3%, LVBench 91.7%, 1M-token output limit, $2 / $10 introductory price. Limited access via the Fairwind Program; broad rollout pending.
MiniMax H3
The first major open-weight video model with native stereo audio — a 33B omni-modal transformer generating 4–15s clips at up to 2K. #1 on Artificial Analysis image-to-video, #4 on text-to-video, and the cheapest model in the top five at $4.80 per minute.
Eleven v4
ElevenLabs' September 28, 2026 text-to-speech pair — Eleven v4 for produced, emotive speech and Eleven v4 Turbo for real-time agents at about 100 ms inference. 90+ languages, audio tags, #1 and #2 on the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena, from $0.04 per 1,000 characters.
Meshy 5
The most reliable all-rounder for AI 3D — best-in-class PBR textures, fast iteration, and a deep plugin ecosystem for Blender and Unity.
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS
Google's Sept 23, 2026 flagship text-to-speech model — voice design from a text prompt, 130 languages, line-by-line direction, two-speaker scenes and long-form stability, at $0.00225 per 10 seconds of audio through 2026.
Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic's Sept 22, 2026 flagship — Fable 5.1-level performance on most work at $4 / $20, 40% cheaper than Opus 5 on typical workloads, 1M context, 30%+ faster output, Terminal-Bench 4.0 66.4%.
GPT Image 2.5
OpenAI's Sept 8, 2026 image family — Flare (fast default) and Sunburst (precision flagship), #1 and #2 on Arena text-to-image, token pricing unchanged from GPT Image 2, up to 4K with transparent backgrounds.
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- Featured guide The 2026 LLM Landscape: Every Major Model, Compared A definitive, sourced comparison of the leading large language models — a June 2026 baseline with monthly updates through October 2026 — covering GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM, MiMo, MiniMax, Nemotron and Mistral by benchmark, price, context window and license. Read the guide
- Latest news AI week in review: Nano Banana 2.1 undercuts GPT Image 2.5, Kling 4.0 stays in preview, and five voice models in three weeks Google's $0.0336 Nano Banana 2.1 lands behind OpenAI's Arena-topping GPT Image 2.5, Kling 4.0 is announced with only a Flash tier live, Claude 5.5 completes with a $0.10 Haiku, Mistral Large 4 enters preview, and ElevenLabs, Google, Alibaba, Microsoft and Amazon all ship voice models. Read brief
- Free tool AI Token Calculator Estimate and compare token costs across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen and more, using a real GPT tokenizer in your browser. Open the calculator