AI Models
The models worth knowing across five modalities, each with sourced specs, current pricing and an honest verdict. Filter by type below.
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.
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-6
OpenAI's GPT-6 family — Astra ($10 / $50, Sept 3), Sol and Luna (Sept 22), GPT-6.1 Sol (Sept 29, near-Astra intelligence at $2 / $10) — 1.05M context, ARC-AGI-3 99.9%, FrontierMath Tier 4 98%.
Claude Fable 5.1
Anthropic's Sept 1, 2026 Mythos-class update — ~25% cheaper than Fable 5 on typical workloads via 75% lower cache reads ($0.25), 60% fewer cyber false positives, Terminal-Bench-Science 52.6% vs 24.7%. Same model as the restricted Mythos 5.1.
GLM-5.3
Z.ai's August 14, 2026 post-training upgrade of GLM-5.2 — the same 753B base with 50% better coding on its in-house bench, Terminal-Bench 3.0 up from 4.6 to 28.3, a 1M context, open weights, and the top CyberGym score reported at launch.
Muse Glimmer
Meta's first Apache 2.0 model — a 30B dense multimodal agent optimized for local deployment on consumer GPUs, with DFlash speculative decoding for fast inference.
Muse Spark 1.2
Meta's coding-focused flagship — co-trained with Muse Code terminal agent, TB 2.1 82.9%, $1.25/$4.25 standard pricing, 1M context, open weights announced.
Qwen3.8-Max
Alibaba's flagship — 2.4T-parameter sparse MoE (95B active), multimodal, top scores on agentic/research benchmarks, $2/$6 pricing, with open weights released on August 12, 2026.
Claude Opus 5
Anthropic's July 2026 flagship — near-Fable intelligence at Opus pricing ($5/$25), SOTA on Frontier-Bench, ARC-AGI-3 and OSWorld 2.0, with thinking on by default.
Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google's July 2026 workhorse model — 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash, cheaper at $1.50/$7.50, optimized for agentic coding and knowledge work.
Kimi K3
The world's first open 3T-class frontier model — 2.8T parameters (104B active MoE), 1M context, native vision, open weights under a revenue-tiered custom license.
Grok 4.5
xAI's July 2026 coding-and-agent flagship — 500K context, $2/$6 per 1M, default in Grok Build and Cursor, trained alongside Cursor.
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet yet — near-Opus quality for coding, agents and knowledge work at $2/$10 introductory pricing, and the new default model on claude.ai.
GPT-5.6
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family — flagship Sol, balanced Terra and fast Luna — with max/ultra reasoning modes and tiered pricing. Generally available since July 9, 2026.
Sakana Fugu
Tokyo-based Sakana AI's June 2026 multi-agent orchestration system — shipped as a single OpenAI-compatible model that dynamically routes each task to a swappable pool of frontier and open models.
GLM-5.2
Z.ai's open-weight long-horizon flagship — a 753B-param MoE with a stable 1M context under an MIT license, beating GPT-5.5 on several coding benchmarks.
Kimi K2.7 Code
Moonshot's open-weight agentic coding flagship — a 1T-param MoE (32B active) with 256K context and native image/video input, thinking ~30% leaner than K2.6.
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic's first Mythos-class model for general use — state-of-the-art on nearly every benchmark, with safety classifiers that fall back to Opus 4.8 on sensitive topics. Suspended by US export controls June 12–30, back globally since July 1.
Claude Opus 4.8
The June 2026 overall intelligence leader and top model for agentic coding, with the most careful hallucination calibration of any frontier model.
DeepSeek V4-Pro
The open-weight value champion — near-frontier coding (SWE-V ~85%) under an MIT license with a 1M-token context at a fraction of closed-model prices.
GPT-5.5
OpenAI's unified reasoning-and-chat flagship — the strongest model for terminal-native agentic work, natively omnimodal across text, image, audio and video.
Gemini 3.1 Pro
The highest-value closed frontier model — top-tier reasoning and native multimodality at roughly $2 per 1M input tokens with a 1M-token context.
Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic's Oct 7, 2026 small model — from $0.10 / $0.50 per 1M tokens (about 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5), first Haiku with adjustable effort, 1M context, OSWorld 2.1 offline 72.4%.
Mistral Large 4
Mistral's Oct 6, 2026 public preview — a 1.05T-parameter open-weight multimodal MoE (52B active) with 1M context, state-of-the-art among open models on cybersecurity, finance and law, DeepSWE v1.1 61.7%. Weights due end of October.
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic's Sept 28, 2026 workhorse — Terminal-Bench 4.0 70.6%, CursorBench 4.0 55.5%, 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and up to 30% cheaper per task at an unchanged $2 / $10, with cache reads halved to $0.10.
MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Xiaomi's September 22, 2026 open-weight omni-modal flagship — a 1.02T-parameter MoE (42B active) with text, image, video and audio input, a 1M context and an MIT license, trained with six days of large-scale RL and priced at $0.435 / $0.87 per 1M tokens.
Grok 4.7
xAI's Sept 21, 2026 flagship for coding and knowledge work — a new, larger base model at Grok 4.6's $2 / $6 price and speed, 500K context, xhigh reasoning, CursorBench 4.0 46.3%, Terminal-Bench 4.0 37.6%.
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash
Alibaba's September 18, 2026 natively omni-modal model — text, image, audio and video in, 1M context, built for audio-video agents (video editing, music videos, long-meeting analysis) at $0.15 / $0.47 per 1M tokens, with a separate Realtime API for live voice and video.
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash
DeepSeek's Sept 10, 2026 open-weight multimodal MoE under MIT — 552B parameters with only 8B / 16B active, 1M context, a KV cache a quarter the size, DeepSWE v1.1 74.2% and Terminal-Bench 2.1 90.6%, from $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M tokens.
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google's Sept 2, 2026 workhorse — best Flash yet for long-horizon coding and agents, HLE-Verified 54.9%, 1M input / 64K output, multimodal, $0.75 / $3.75 introductory price (rising to $1.50 / $7.50 in 2027).
GLM-5.3-Flash
Z.ai's August 26, 2026 natively multimodal open-weight model — 320B parameters with 18B active, a hybrid sparse-plus-linear attention design, 1M context and an MIT license, beating GLM-5.2 on DeepSWE v1.1 (63.4 vs 46.2) at one-tenth the price.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Alibaba's August 26, 2026 open-weight multimodal MoE and architecture preview for Qwen4 — 125B parameters plus a 51B N-gram embedding with only 6B active per token, SWE-bench Pro 62.5, trained at about 1/9 the cost of Qwen3.7-Plus, hosted as qwen3.8-flash at $0.15 / $0.47.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
NVIDIA's highest-efficiency open model for long-running agentic AI workloads — built by the Nemotron Coalition, available with NeMo Switchyard for intelligent multi-model routing.
Inkling
Mira Murati's first model — a 975B/41B-active open-weight MoE with Apache 2.0 license, native text/image/audio, 1M context, designed as a base for fine-tuning.
MiniMax M3
The first open-weight model to combine frontier coding, a 1M-token context and native multimodality — a 428B MoE (22B active) built on sparse attention.
Ornith-1.0
Ornith-1.0 is DeepReinforce's open-source, self-improving LLM family for agentic coding — from a 9B edge model to a 397B MoE that rivals Claude Opus 4.7 on SWE-Bench.
Qwen3.7-Max
Alibaba's proprietary "Agent Frontier" flagship — top knowledge scores and long-horizon autonomy across a 1M-token context.
Grok 4.3
xAI's budget-frontier model — strong agentic tool calling and a self-reported low hallucination rate inside a 1M-token window at $1.25 / $2.50 per 1M.
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.
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.
FLUX.2
The open-weight champion for photorealism, text rendering and developer workflows — top quality at a few cents per image via API or self-hosting.
Midjourney v8.1
The industry leader for raw artistic quality and aesthetic polish — a subscription-only image generator beloved by designers and concept artists.
Grok Imagine Image 2.0
xAI's editing-first image model — Arena #2 in both T2I and image editing behind GPT-Image-2, with magic wand, segmentation, multi-reference compositing and templates.
GPT Image 2
OpenAI's image model — strong at prompt instruction-following and conversational editing, native to the ChatGPT and OpenAI API stack. Succeeded on Sept 8, 2026 by GPT Image 2.5 at the same token prices.
Nano Banana 2
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Image model — Flash-speed image generation and editing with 4K output, strong text rendering and search grounding. Succeeded on Oct 6, 2026 by Nano Banana 2.1.
Boogu-Image 0.1
Apache-2.0 open-source image generation and editing family (Base / Turbo / Edit) with strong bilingual text rendering and near closed-source quality — trained on roughly 10× less data and fully self-hostable.
Recraft V4
The design-and-brand specialist — vector/SVG output, brand-style consistency and strong typography built for professional design work.
Ideogram 3.0
The specialist for typography and logo design — the most reliable model for correct, legible text inside generated images.
Imagen 4
Google's photorealism leader — best-in-class typography and people, available cheaply through Gemini Advanced or per-image on Vertex AI.
Stable Diffusion 3.5
The open-weights standard for local, private and customizable image generation — run it on your own GPU at no per-image cost, or via Stability's API.
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.
Seedance 2.5
ByteDance's long-sequence video model — native 30-second single-shot clips, up to 50 multimodal reference assets, phoneme-level lip-sync and one-pass synced audio. Launched July 31, 2026; #3 on Artificial Analysis text-to-video, and the priciest of the leaders at $34.12 per minute.
FLUX 3
BFL's unified multimodal model — video (up to 20s with native audio), image, and action prediction from one set of weights, built on Self-Flow. Video GA as of August 4, 2026.
PixVerse V6
The best free pick for short-form video — multi-shot character consistency, native audio and 20+ cinematic lens controls, with daily free credits.
Kling 3.0
A dependable mid-priced video model — excellent human motion and face consistency, native 4K output and multilingual audio, though it now sits mid-table (#16) on Artificial Analysis text-to-video. Kling 4.0 was announced in late September 2026 but is still in limited preview, so 3.0 remains the version you can buy with an API.
Veo 3.1
Google's cinematic video model with native audio — prized for polished, sound-synced clips, though it has slipped to
Kling 4.0
Preview: Kuaishou's Kling 4.0, announced Sept 28–30, 2026 — 30-second native generation, 10 keyframes, 15 combined references, stereo audio and 10-bit HDR. Only Kling 4.0 Flash is in limited early access; the full model and API are still pending.
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Google's conversational video model — generate, edit and extend 3–10 second clips with native audio by chatting with it. Production-ready since August 27, 2026; tied for #1 on Artificial Analysis image-to-video at $9.12 per minute, #8 on text-to-video.
Wan 3.0
Alibaba's unified video generation model — #1 on Artificial Analysis text-to-video, 30-second single-pass clips, multimodal inputs including documents and web pages, $0.05–$0.20/sec API pricing.
MAGI-2 Preview
Sand.ai's open-source 114B MoE video model — generates 10-second clips with synchronized audio using just 6B active parameters per token. Apache 2.0.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5
xAI's dedicated video generation model — native 1080p, 6–15 seconds with synced audio, image/voice references, built on the Aurora autoregressive engine.
Wan 2.7
Alibaba's flagship video model — 1080p with native audio sync, first/last-frame and multi-scene controls, from the Wan series whose open-source lineage made it the community base.
Seedance 2.0
A multimodal-control video model built for e-commerce and reference-heavy jobs — strong image-to-video fit, motion physics and multi-asset input.
Runway Gen-4.5
The professional's video model — rich creative controls like motion brush and camera moves, built into a mature editorial toolset.
Hailuo 2.3
MiniMax's earlier budget video model — fast turnaround for drafts and high-volume social content. MiniMax now files it under Legacy Models; MiniMax H3 is the newer, higher-ranked option.
Sora 2
OpenAI's video model known for physics realism and synchronized audio, available through ChatGPT and the API.
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.
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.
Suno v5.5
The leading AI music generator for full, radio-ready songs — natural vocals, real song structure, voice cloning and 30+ genres from a single text prompt.
ACE-Step
The open-source full-song generator — free, self-hostable music with vocals that runs on a single consumer GPU.
Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic
Amazon's Oct 5, 2026 speech-to-speech model for real-time voice agents — better reasoning, instruction following and tool-calling accuracy and lower latency than Nova 2 Sonic, 18 voices in seven languages, 256K context, same price, on Amazon Bedrock.
MAI-Voice-2.1
Microsoft AI's Oct 1, 2026 text-to-speech pair — MAI-Voice-2.1 for expressive long-form audio at $22 per 1M characters and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash for low-latency agents at $15, 23 languages, one voice across all of them, in public preview on Azure.
Qwen-Audio 3.1
Alibaba Qwen's Sept 23, 2026 five-model audio stack — ASR, ASR-Next, TTS, TTS-Next and a full-duplex Realtime model — API-only on Model Studio, with list prices cut roughly 70% for TTS, 85% for Realtime and up to 95% for ASR.
ElevenLabs Music v2
The commercially safest AI music generator — built with label and publisher partnerships, with section-by-section editing, a full API and studio-grade exports.
Lyria 3
Google DeepMind's music generation model — high-fidelity 48kHz audio up to three minutes, available through Vertex AI and the Gemini API.
MiniMax Speech 2.8
MiniMax's text-to-speech family — expressive multilingual synthesis with paid-per-voice cloning and voice design, a large built-in voice library and async long-form jobs, at $60–$100 per 1M characters.
Stable Audio 2.5
Stability's music-and-sound model — fast, commercially-cleared instrumental tracks and sound design with an enterprise-friendly API.
Udio v4
The audio-quality leader among AI music tools — 48kHz rendering with the cleanest instrument separation, for film and brand-grade music.
ElevenLabs v3
ElevenLabs' previous-generation expressive text-to-speech model, superseded by Eleven v4 on September 28, 2026 — 70+ languages, multi-speaker dialogue and audio tags, now
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.
Rodin Gen-2
The highest-fidelity AI 3D generator — production-ready geometry with clean quad topology, the top pick for hero assets and photorealism.
Hunyuan3D 2.1
The leading open-source 3D generator — fully open weights and training code with a production-ready PBR texture pipeline, self-hostable for free.
Hitem3D
The ultra-detailed specialist — high-resolution 3D models for miniatures, e-commerce and product visualization.
Luma Genie
A free, accessible text-to-3D generator from Luma AI — a fast, no-cost way to turn prompts into 3D models via web and Discord.
Sloyd AI
Parametric, game-ready 3D — instant low-poly assets with clean topology, tuned for real-time engines.
TRELLIS 2
Microsoft's open-source 3D generator known for high-quality Gaussian-splatting visuals and flexible output representations from images or text.
Tripo 3.0
The speed-and-value leader for game-ready 3D — clean low-poly topology and auto-rigging at the lowest cost per asset.
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