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Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google
Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google’s newest Flash model built for efficient, reliable, production-scale AI agents. The model improves on Gemini 3.5 Flash with stronger coding, knowledge work, multimodal performance, computer use, and agentic workflow execution. Gemini 3.6 Flash is designed to use fewer output tokens, take fewer reasoning steps, reduce unnecessary tool calls, and lower the cost of complex AI tasks. It supports document parsing, chart analysis, data analysis, report drafting, code migrations, visual understanding, and multi-agent orchestration. The model is available through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Android Studio, Google Antigravity, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Gemini Enterprise app, and the Gemini app. Built for developers and enterprises, Gemini 3.6 Flash helps teams build faster, lower-cost, and more capable AI agents across coding, analysis, productivity, and multimodal workloads.Starting Price: $1.50 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Fugu-Ultra v1.1
Sakana AI
Fugu-Ultra v1.1 is Sakana AI’s upgraded multi-agent orchestration model for complex coding, agentic work, and advanced reasoning. Rather than relying on one model, it dynamically coordinates a diverse pool of frontier models, selecting and combining specialized agents for each task while presenting the system through a single model interface. The v1.1 orchestration upgrade incorporates newer frontier models and improves performance across every tracked benchmark, with gains of up to 7.9 points over v1.0 and particularly strong results on ProgramBench and Terminal Bench 2.1. Fugu can now be used directly inside Claude Code through Claude Code-compatible endpoints, bringing a coordinated team of models into familiar terminal workflows for writing, debugging, reviewing, and executing code. A one-command installer configures the integration on Ubuntu and macOS, while manual setup is available for Windows and other environments.Starting Price: $6 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Inkling-Small
Thinking Machines Lab
Inkling-Small is an efficient model that offers performance comparable to Inkling at a quarter of its size. It is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active parameters, trained on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems. It supports native reasoning across text, images, and audio, variable thinking effort, and context windows of up to one million tokens. Users adjust reasoning effort from minimal to extra high to balance performance and compute. Improved pre-training data, post-training with on-policy distillation from Inkling, and extended agentic coding reinforcement learning helped Inkling-Small surpass its larger counterpart on reasoning and coding benchmarks. It performs well in coding and tool-use harnesses, exceeds 80% on SWE-bench Verified, and combines strong reasoning with efficient output. Its encoder-free multimodal architecture processes audio as dMel spectrograms and images as 40-by-40-pixel patches alongside text tokens.Starting Price: $0.30 per million input tokens -
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Muse Glimmer
Meta
Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter open-weights model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, optimized for always-on local agent workflows. Small enough to run on a Mac or PC with a single consumer GPU, it is designed for local agents, function calling, coding, and LLM-as-a-judge evaluation without depending on cloud infrastructure or network access. The model combines long-horizon execution, precise tool calling, multimodal understanding, long-context memory, and instruction following. It can complete end-to-end agentic tasks, sustain multi-step reasoning across extended workflows, recover from failed or unexpected tool calls, and accept interleaved text and images through a dedicated perception encoder for interpreting screenshots, charts, and documents. Muse Glimmer works with OpenClaw and other agentic orchestration patterns, supports controllable reasoning effort, and is trained on data from more than 100 languages.Starting Price: Free -
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Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google
Gemini 3.7 Flash is Google’s most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents, delivering substantial improvements across software engineering, knowledge work, web development, and complex business workflows. It shows stronger performance in debugging and issue resolution, higher first-pass code accuracy, and improved generation of production-ready code. For web development, the model creates more functional layouts and feature-complete applications in fewer prompts, with strong design adherence when working from screenshots, images, or complete design systems. In knowledge-dense fields such as finance, law, and biosciences, it provides improved reasoning, accuracy, and complex-document understanding. Gemini 3.7 Flash also performs more effectively on real-world workflow automation and multimodal tasks, supporting use cases ranging from interactive web experiences and data stories to robotics and dynamically generated 3D content.Starting Price: $0.75 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Muse Spark 1.3
Meta
Muse Spark 1.3 is an AI model with improved performance across agentic and coding tasks, designed to be smarter and more practical for real-world work. It sustains longer-horizon tasks by collaborating with users and managing multiple workflows in a single, long thread. Given an open-ended objective, it uses tools to build context across messy or conflicting sources, correct gaps in its plan, track what it has learned, and produce a final deliverable. It asks clarifying questions when prompts are ambiguous, requests help when stuck, and confirms before taking consequential actions. The model follows complex, long-form instructions more reliably, preserving detailed requirements across multi-step tasks without dropping constraints or drifting from the requested workflow. Improved multitasking allows it to map incoming prompts to the correct task even when users interrupt or redirect previous requests.Starting Price: $1.25 per 1M tokens (input) -
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DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is a fast, versatile AI model designed for demanding coding, agentic, creative, and spatial reasoning workloads. Building on DeepSeek-V4-Flash, it emphasizes high-speed generation while maintaining strong performance on complex tasks, reaching more than 400 tokens per second and peaking at around 427 tokens per second in reported tests. The model can tackle advanced programming challenges, generate interactive 3D environments, create voxel-based designs, and reason about spatially complex scenes and simulations. Demonstrations include Minecraft-style worlds, classical Chinese gardens, racing environments, dungeon navigation, exploded camera views, and other applications requiring both code generation and an understanding of spatial relationships. Its capabilities make it suitable for rapid prototyping, game development, 3D workflows, architecture, research, and other technical or creative projects where iteration speed matters.Starting Price: Free -
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Mistral Large 4
Mistral AI
Mistral Large 4 is a general-purpose multimodal language model available through Mistral’s hosted inference API. It combines instruction following, reasoning and agentic capabilities, and accepts image and text inputs. Developers can use it for chat completion, structured outputs, function calling, document question answering, tool-assisted workflows and other application features. Its documented use cases include conversational assistants, coding and software engineering agents, cybersecurity analysis, finance and legal workflows, scientific research, data extraction, summarization, and analysis of documents, charts and images. Mistral Large 4 is designed for developers, researchers, businesses and public-sector teams building AI-powered applications across industries such as engineering, manufacturing, finance, logistics and science.Starting Price: $1.36 per 1M input tokens -
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DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is an open-weight multimodal artificial intelligence model developed by DeepSeek for advanced reasoning, software engineering, visual understanding, and autonomous AI agent workflows. Released on October 17, 2026, it builds on DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash with improvements in coding performance, agentic task execution, and reasoning efficiency. The model supports text and image inputs, tool calling, configurable reasoning effort, and multistep problem-solving. Its one-million-token context window enables developers to process lengthy documents, extensive codebases, and complex sequences of instructions. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 also supports end-to-end software development, including application generation, debugging, automated testing, and interactive project creation. The model is available through the DeepSeek API and downloadable weights under the MIT License, supporting both hosted and self-managed deployment.Starting Price: Free -
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Qwen
Alibaba
Qwen is a powerful, free AI assistant built on the advanced Qwen model series, designed to help anyone with creativity, research, problem-solving, and everyday tasks. While Qwen Chat is the main interface for most users, Qwen itself powers a broad range of intelligent capabilities including image generation, deep research, website creation, advanced reasoning, and context-aware search. Its multimodal intelligence enables Qwen to understand and process text, images, audio, and video simultaneously for richer insights. Qwen is available on web, desktop, and mobile, ensuring seamless access across all devices. For developers, the Qwen API provides OpenAI-compatible endpoints, making integration simple and allowing Qwen’s intelligence to power apps, services, and automation. Whether you're chatting through Qwen Chat or building with the Qwen API, Qwen delivers fast, flexible, and highly capable AI support.Starting Price: Free -
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OpenAI o1-pro
OpenAI
OpenAI o1-pro is the enhanced version of OpenAI's o1 model, designed to tackle more complex and demanding tasks with greater reliability. It features significant performance improvements over its predecessor, the o1 preview, with a notable 34% reduction in major errors and the ability to think 50% faster. This model excels in areas like math, physics, and coding, where it can provide detailed and accurate solutions. Additionally, the o1-pro mode can process multimodal inputs, including text and images, and is particularly adept at reasoning tasks that require deep thought and problem-solving. It's accessible through a ChatGPT Pro subscription, offering unlimited usage and enhanced capabilities for users needing advanced AI assistance.Starting Price: $200/month -
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DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1 is an advanced open-source reasoning model developed by DeepSeek, designed to rival OpenAI's Model o1. Accessible via web, app, and API, it excels in complex tasks such as mathematics and coding, demonstrating superior performance on benchmarks like the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) and MATH. DeepSeek-R1 employs a mixture of experts (MoE) architecture with 671 billion total parameters, activating 37 billion parameters per token, enabling efficient and accurate reasoning capabilities. This model is part of DeepSeek's commitment to advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI) through open-source innovation.Starting Price: Free -
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Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4, the latest evolution of Anthropic’s language models, offers a significant upgrade in coding, reasoning, and performance. Designed for diverse use cases, Sonnet 4 builds upon the success of its predecessor, Claude Sonnet 3.7, delivering more precise responses and better task execution. With a state-of-the-art 72.7% performance on the SWE-bench, it stands out in agentic scenarios, offering enhanced steerability and clear reasoning capabilities. Whether handling software development, multi-feature app creation, or complex problem-solving, Claude Sonnet 4 ensures higher code quality, reduced errors, and a smoother development process.Starting Price: $3 / 1 million tokens (input) -
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Grok 3 Think
SpaceXSI
Grok 3 Think, the latest iteration of xAI's AI model, is designed to enhance reasoning capabilities using advanced reinforcement learning. It can think through complex problems for extended periods, from seconds to minutes, improving its answers by backtracking, exploring alternatives, and refining its approach. This model, trained on an unprecedented scale, delivers remarkable performance in tasks such as mathematics, coding, and world knowledge, showing impressive results in competitions like the American Invitational Mathematics Examination. Grok 3 Think not only provides accurate solutions but also offers transparency by allowing users to inspect the reasoning behind its decisions, setting a new standard for AI problem-solving.Starting Price: Free -
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Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google
Gemini 2.5 Pro is an advanced AI model designed to handle complex tasks with enhanced reasoning and coding capabilities. Leading common benchmarks, it excels in math, science, and coding, demonstrating strong performance in tasks like web app creation and code transformation. Built on the Gemini 2.5 foundation, it features a 1 million token context window, enabling it to process vast datasets from various sources such as text, images, and code repositories. Available now in Google AI Studio, Gemini 2.5 Pro is optimized for more sophisticated applications and supports advanced users with improved performance for complex problem-solving.Starting Price: $19.99/month -
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Muse Wonder Full
Meta
Muse Wonder Full is an advanced artificial intelligence foundation model developed by Meta for complex reasoning, autonomous agent workflows, software engineering, and professional knowledge work. As part of the Muse Wonder model family, it is designed to handle demanding tasks that require sustained reasoning, contextual understanding, and multistep execution. The model incorporates Active Memory to retain important information across conversations and retrieve relevant context when needed. Its Active Focus capabilities support long-running assignments by exploring alternative approaches, resolving obstacles, and adapting to changing requirements. Muse Wonder Full also supports software development, legal and financial analysis, business workflow automation, and agentic interactions with external tools. The model is available to Muse Code subscribers and has been evaluated on benchmarks covering coding, memory, professional tasks, and general problem-solving capabilities.Starting Price: $50/month -
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash
MiniMax
MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a hosted large language model for developers building coding assistants, AI agents, and software applications. Available through MiniMax’s API and MiniMax Code, it accepts text, image, and video input and generates text responses. Documented uses include code generation and debugging, multi-step reasoning, tool use, codebase and document analysis, and computer-use workflows. The API offers a context window of up to 1 million tokens, adjustable reasoning effort, and OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible request formats. Usage is billed by input, output, and cached-input tokens. MiniMax provides documentation for API integration and model use. M3.1 Flash is available through the hosted API, M Plan, and MiniMax Code; model weights are planned for a later release.Starting Price: $0.15/1M input tokens -
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OpenAI o1
OpenAI
OpenAI o1 represents a new series of AI models designed by OpenAI, focusing on enhanced reasoning capabilities. These models, including o1-preview and o1-mini, are trained using a novel reinforcement learning approach to spend more time "thinking" through problems before providing answers. This approach allows o1 to excel in complex problem-solving tasks in areas like coding, mathematics, and science, outperforming previous models like GPT-4o in certain benchmarks. The o1 series aims to tackle challenges that require deeper thought processes, marking a significant step towards AI systems that can reason more like humans, although it's still in the preview stage with ongoing improvements and evaluations. -
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OpenAI o1-mini
OpenAI
OpenAI o1-mini is a new, cost-effective AI model designed for enhanced reasoning, particularly excelling in STEM fields like mathematics and coding. It's part of the o1 series, which focuses on solving complex problems by spending more time "thinking" through solutions. Despite being smaller and 80% cheaper than its sibling, the o1-preview, o1-mini performs competitively in coding tasks and mathematical reasoning, making it an accessible option for developers and enterprises looking for efficient AI solutions. -
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Claude Haiku 3.5
Anthropic
Our fastest model, delivering advanced coding, tool use, and reasoning at an accessible price Claude Haiku 3.5 is the next generation of our fastest model. For a similar speed to Claude Haiku 3, Claude Haiku 3.5 improves across every skill set and surpasses Claude Opus 3, the largest model in our previous generation, on many intelligence benchmarks. -
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Gemini-Exp-1206
Google
Gemini-Exp-1206 is an experimental AI model now available for preview to Gemini Advanced subscribers. This model significantly enhances performance in complex tasks such as coding, mathematics, reasoning, and following detailed instructions. It's designed to assist users in navigating intricate challenges with greater ease. As an early preview, some features may not function as expected, and it currently lacks access to real-time information. Users can access Gemini-Exp-1206 through the Gemini model drop-down on desktop and mobile web platforms. -
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Grok 4
SpaceXSI
Grok 4 is the latest AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, marking a significant advancement in AI reasoning and natural language understanding. Developed on the Colossus supercomputer, Grok 4 supports multimodal inputs including text and images, with plans to add video capabilities soon. It features enhanced precision in language tasks and has demonstrated superior performance in scientific reasoning and visual problem-solving compared to other leading AI models. Designed for developers, researchers, and technical users, Grok 4 offers powerful tools for complex tasks. The model incorporates improved moderation to address previous concerns about biased or problematic outputs. Grok 4 represents a major leap forward in AI’s ability to understand and generate human-like responses. -
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Grok 4.1 Fast
SpaceXSI
Grok 4.1 Fast is an xAI model designed to deliver advanced tool-calling capabilities with a massive 2-million-token context window. It excels at complex real-world tasks such as customer support, finance, troubleshooting, and dynamic agent workflows. The model pairs seamlessly with the new Agent Tools API, which enables real-time web search, X search, file retrieval, and secure code execution. This combination gives developers the power to build fully autonomous, production-grade agents that plan, reason, and use tools effectively. Grok 4.1 Fast is trained with long-horizon reinforcement learning, ensuring stable multi-turn accuracy even across extremely long prompts. With its speed, cost-efficiency, and high benchmark scores, it sets a new standard for scalable enterprise-grade AI agents. -
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Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.6 is an advanced AI model developed by Anthropic, designed for high-level reasoning, coding, and knowledge work tasks. It introduces significant improvements in coding, debugging, and code review capabilities. The model can handle long, complex workflows and sustain agentic tasks with greater reliability. It features a 1 million token context window in beta, enabling it to process and retain large amounts of information. Claude Opus 4.6 is optimized for tasks such as financial analysis, research, and document creation. It also integrates with tools like Excel and PowerPoint for enhanced productivity. Overall, it is a state-of-the-art AI model built for complex, real-world professional applications. -
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Muse Spark
Meta
Muse Spark is a multimodal AI reasoning model developed by Meta as part of its push toward personal superintelligence. It integrates text, images, and tools to deliver advanced reasoning and interactive capabilities. The model supports features like visual chain-of-thought and multi-agent orchestration. Users can leverage Muse Spark for tasks such as problem-solving, content creation, and real-world troubleshooting. Its Contemplating mode enables multiple AI agents to reason in parallel for improved performance. Muse Spark also demonstrates strong capabilities in areas like health insights and visual understanding. Overall, it represents a significant step toward more intelligent and personalized AI systems. -
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MAI-Code-1-Flash
Microsoft AI
MAI-Code-1-Flash is a Microsoft coding model built for fast, efficient assistance in everyday developer workflows. Built end-to-end by Microsoft using clean and appropriately licensed data, the model is rolling out to GitHub Copilot individual users in Visual Studio Code through the model picker and the default Auto picker. It is designed around the goal of delivering high-quality coding help with better efficiency, helping engineering teams write better code faster through a lightweight, agentic model integrated into GitHub Copilot and VS Code. MAI-Code-1-Flash was trained directly with GitHub Copilot production harnesses, allowing it to interact with surrounding tools and systems in real developer environments rather than being optimized only for static benchmarks. It supports agentic coding, strong instruction-following across single-turn and multi-turn scenarios, repository question answering, refactoring, telemetry-grounded tasks, and adaptive thinking. -
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Qwen3.8-27B
Alibaba
Qwen3.8-27B is a compact open-weights model in Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 family, aimed at developers and researchers who want strong local AI performance without using the full Max-scale model. Reports from Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 launch state that Qwen3.8-27B was planned for open-weight release alongside Qwen3.8-Max, expanding access for builders working on AI applications. The model is positioned for coding, research, professional workflows, and local deployment scenarios where a 27B model can be more practical than frontier-scale systems. Qwen3.8’s broader launch emphasizes software development, document processing, data analysis, and professional “cowork” use cases. Qwen3.8-27B is especially relevant for teams that need a capable open model for experimentation, coding agents, assistant workflows, and self-hosted inference. Built for practical deployment, Qwen3.8-27B gives developers a smaller Qwen3.8 option for building AI tools, testing agents, and running advanced language model workflows. -
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Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google
Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google’s most intelligent Flash workhorse model, delivering significant improvements over 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and critical multi-step reasoning in specialized domains. Built for long-horizon coding and autonomous agents, it can solve complex engineering problems end to end and delivers the dependability required for critical enterprise autonomy across specialized knowledge domains. The model shows stronger performance in quantitative and professional fields that require advanced analysis and reporting, as well as multi-step reasoning across STEM, humanities, and professional subjects. Its gains stem from a core design choice: Gemini 3.8 Flash works harder on complex tasks, executing additional reasoning steps and calling tools iteratively to maximize performance. At higher effort levels, it may use more tokens to pursue stronger results, while developers can select lower effort levels. -
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GPT-5.1 Pro
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Pro is the highest-performance version of the GPT-5.1 model family, designed for research-grade reasoning and advanced analytical workloads. It delivers deeper, more structured thinking, making it ideal for complex problem-solving across coding, science, finance, law, and technical research. Unlike the Instant and Thinking versions, GPT-5.1 Pro is built to maintain accuracy under heavy cognitive load, producing clearer logic and more reliable multi-step reasoning. Pro users also gain access to extended context windows, allowing significantly longer inputs and deeper information processing. While it supports the full range of ChatGPT features, GPT-5.1 Pro is optimized for precision, rigor, and high-stakes tasks. It is available exclusively to ChatGPT Pro and Business customers. -
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Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, delivering significant upgrades across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, and knowledge work. It introduces a 1 million token context window in beta, allowing users to analyze entire codebases, lengthy contracts, or large research collections in a single session. The model demonstrates major improvements in instruction following, consistency, and reduced hallucinations compared to previous Sonnet versions. In developer testing, users strongly preferred Sonnet 4.6 over Sonnet 4.5 and even favored it over Opus 4.5 in many coding scenarios. Its enhanced computer-use capabilities enable it to interact with real software interfaces similarly to a human, improving automation for legacy systems without APIs. Sonnet 4.6 also performs strongly on major benchmarks, approaching Opus-level intelligence at a more accessible price point.
