AI model releases, month by month
A dated record of every AI model release we can verify against the lab that shipped it, grouped by the month it happened. 90 releases so far, each with the price it launched at, the context window, whether the weights are open, and a link to the announcement. For what these models cost today and what is expected next, see the model tracker; for how they rank on independent benchmarks, the value leaderboard.
How many AI models were released in October 2026?
18 distinct model releases in October 2026 are verifiable against a dated source, from 13 labs. 7 shipped with open weights. The flagship launches were Muse Wonder, Mistral Large 4. That number is smaller than the counts on auto-ingested catalogs, which list every fine-tune and re-hosted variant; counted here is a distinct model a lab announced as a release.
What is the most recent AI model release?
Muse Wonder from Meta, released Oct 12, 2026. Meta's first frontier-tier model, a public API preview at $4/$20, 3.2x Muse Spark 1.3's input rate. Scores 52 on Artificial Analysis at $4.52 per index task, more than GPT-6 Astra's $3.26 at 53. It launched at $4 / $20 per million tokens.
| Day of October 2026 | Releases | Models |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | Clef, FLUX 3 Image, Griffin-Lite, MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, Pareto 26.10 Preview, pplx-decider-v1-27b, Clef-flash, MAI-Voice-2.1, MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash, Strands Decider 2B |
| 5 | 1 | Beam |
| 6 | 2 | Mistral Large 4, Nano Banana 2.1 |
| 7 | 1 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| 9 | 2 | Microsoft-Decision-1, Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo |
| 12 | 2 | Muse Wonder, Muse Wonder Full |
Releases do not arrive evenly. October 2026 produced 18 of them across just 6 separate days, and the most any one day carried was 10, on October 1. The pattern is competitive rather than coincidental: labs hold a launch until a rival moves, then answer within hours, which is why the calendar above is a run of spikes separated by quiet weeks rather than a steady drip.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Microsoft-Decision-1 | $0 |
| Clef | $0 |
| pplx-decider-v1-27b | $0 |
| Clef-flash | $0 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.5 |
| Mistral Large 4 | $2.09 |
| Pareto 26.10 Preview | $3.2 |
| Muse Wonder | $20 |
The spread inside one month is about Infinityx, from Microsoft-Decision-1 at $0 per million output tokens to Muse Wonder at $20. Read that as a range of positions, not a quality ranking: the cheapest per-token model is frequently not the cheapest way to finish a task, because a model that reasons for four times as many tokens erases a four-times-lower rate. The cost-per-task ranking works the figure the other way round, from a completed task backwards.
Has any AI model raised its price after launch?
No. Not one of the 34 releases we can price both ways has raised a published per-token rate since the day it shipped. 29 still charge exactly what they charged on release day. 4 have cut, some of them steeply. The direction is one-way, and that is the single most useful thing a release record can tell you that a list of dates cannot.
This comparison exists because two datasets are kept apart on purpose. This page freezes the rate a lab published on launch day and never updates it; the model tracker overwrites with the current rate. Holding them together is what turns a timeline into a price history. A current-price table alone cannot show it, because a model repriced downward six months later simply looks cheap.
| Item | At launch | Today |
|---|---|---|
| GPT-5.6 Luna | $6 | $1.2 |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | $7.5 | $3.75 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | $30 | $20 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | $15 | $12 |
The cuts cluster in one place. 3 of the 4 are OpenAI repricing the GPT-5.6 family after GPT-6 Astra arrived above it, and the deepest, GPT-5.6 Luna at -80%, is the cheapest tier of that family. Anthropic has still not repriced a shipped model: Claude Fable 5, Fable 5.1, Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 all list today what they listed on launch day, and Sonnet 5.5 took Sonnet 5's card unchanged on September 28. It reached the same place by a different route on September 22, when Claude Opus 5.5 arrived at $4 and $20 per million tokens, 20% under the Opus 5 it replaces, with the cache read cut 60% to $0.20. That is a price cut delivered through the version number rather than the rate card, and it is the first flagship in this record to launch cheaper than its own predecessor. Read the distinction as a pricing strategy rather than a coincidence: the labs that cut an existing rate are defending a workhorse tier against cheaper rivals, while Anthropic holds each published rate fixed and moves the price only when the model changes.
One row needs its own caveat, and it is the only apparent increase on the page. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 looks like a rise from $0.28 to $1.32 per million output tokens, but the billing model changed rather than the rate: DeepSeek moved to peak and off-peak pricing on 2026-08-16, so the launch figure and the current figure are not the same kind of number. It is excluded from the cut count above rather than printed as a percentage, because the percentage would be arithmetic on two different things.
| Model | At launch | Today | Change, output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muse WonderMeta | $4 / $20 | $4 / $20 | No change |
| Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic | $0.1 / $0.5 | $0.1 / $0.5 | No change |
| Mistral Large 4Mistral | $0.68 / $2.09 | $0.68 / $2.09 | No change |
| Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle | $2 / $10 | $2 / $10 | No change |
| GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | $2 / $10 | $2 / $10 | No change |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | $2 / $10 | $2 / $10 | No change |
| Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | $4 / $20 | $4 / $20 | No change |
| GPT-6 SolOpenAI | $2 / $10 | $2 / $10 | No change |
| GPT-6 LunaOpenAI | $0.1 / $0.5 | $0.1 / $0.5 | No change |
| Grok 4.7xAI | $2 / $6 | $2 / $6 | No change |
| Pareto 26.9Unbiased | $2.5 / $7.5 | $2.5 / $7.5 | No change |
| DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | $0.3 / $1.2 | $0.3 / $1.2 | No change |
| GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | $10 / $50 | $10 / $50 | No change |
| Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | $0.75 / $3.75 | $0.75 / $3.75 | No change |
| Muse Spark 1.3Meta | $1.25 / $4.25 | $1.25 / $4.25 | No change |
| Qwen3.8-Max-0902Alibaba | $2 / $6 | $2 / $6 | No change |
| Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | $10 / $50 | $10 / $50 | No change |
| GLM-5.3-FlashZhipu | $0.15 / $0.5 | $0.15 / $0.5 | No change |
| Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle | $0.75 / $3.75 | $0.75 / $3.75 | No change |
| Grok 4.6xAI | $2 / $6 | $2 / $6 | No change |
| Muse Spark 1.2Meta | $1.25 / $4.25 | $1.25 / $4.25 | No change |
| Qwen3.8-MaxAlibaba | $2 / $6 | $2 / $6 | No change |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek | $0.14 / $0.28 | $0.44 / $1.32 | Billing change |
| Claude Opus 5Anthropic | $5 / $25 | $5 / $25 | No change |
| Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle | $1.5 / $7.5 | $0.75 / $3.75 | -50% |
| Kimi K3Moonshot | $3 / $15 | $3 / $15 | No change |
| InklingThinking Machines | $1.87 / $4.68 | $1.87 / $4.68 | No change |
| GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI | $5 / $30 | $4 / $20 | -33% |
| GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI | $1 / $6 | $0.2 / $1.2 | -80% |
| GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI | $2.5 / $15 | $2 / $12 | -20% |
| Grok 4.5xAI | $2 / $6 | $2 / $6 | No change |
| Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | $2 / $10 | $2 / $10 | No change |
| GLM-5.2Zhipu | $1.4 / $4.4 | $1.4 / $4.4 | No change |
| Claude Fable 5Anthropic | $10 / $50 | $10 / $50 | No change |
Why do AI release trackers disagree on dates?
Because most of them ingest an API catalog instead of reading an announcement, so they record when a model appeared in a listing rather than when the lab shipped it. Two live examples from October 2026 alone. Grok STT 1.0 is dated July 23, 2026 on one major timeline; xAI actually released it on March 16, 2026, and July 23 is the day it was added to OpenRouter. Kimi K3 is dated July 14 by one tracker and July 16 by two others; Moonshot unveiled it on July 16. Every date below is read off the lab announcement, and the 9 rows that rest on reporting are marked as such.
How this tracker stays honest
AI models released in October 2026
18 releases from 13 labs, 7 of them with open weights. Launch prices ran from $0 to $20 per million output tokens across the 8 of 18 rows that shipped with a published rate card.
The flagship launches were Muse Wonder, Mistral Large 4. Read the October analysis, or filter the full record to this month in the table below.
AI models released in September 2026
34 releases from 14 labs, 9 of them with open weights. Launch prices ran from $0.5 to $50 per million output tokens across the 19 of 34 rows that shipped with a published rate card.
September moved prices in both directions, which is why a one-line summary of it is always wrong. Anthropic, Google, Meta and Alibaba all shipped without touching a rate card. Then GPT-6 Astra listed at $10 and $50 per million tokens, two and a half times what GPT-5.6 Sol charged and the first increase at the frontier tier in years, and six days later DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cut the efficiency tier, taking peak input 32% and the cache read 57% below the V4 Flash it retires. Read the rise against token consumption rather than on its own: Astra burns far fewer tokens per task than its price implies. Two releases shipped with MIT weights, and one of them is the cut. September also delivered the largest fully open release in the record: the Abu Dhabi lab IFM shipped six Apache 2.0 models, 0.9B to 375B, with training data and checkpoints, and none carries a first-party per-token rate. Grok 4.7 showed how little a headline benchmark means on its own: its Terminal-Bench 4.0 score reads 38.0% in the harness xAI ships and 25.8% in a standardized one. Then September 22 undid the frontier-rise reading in a single day. OpenAI halved GPT-6 Sol to $2 and $10 and GPT-6 Luna to $0.10 and $0.50, putting Astra at 5x its own reasoning tier rather than 2.5x, while Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 at $4 and $20, the first Anthropic flagship to launch under its predecessor. Both labs published comparison tables that day against a rival model the rival replaced the same day. Claude Sonnet 5.5 followed on September 28 on Sonnet 5's unchanged $2 and $10, scoring 56 on the Artificial Analysis index to Opus 5.5's 58, but at a higher cost per index task than the flagship, which is the September lesson in one row: the rate card and the bill have stopped moving together. Google closed the month on September 30 with Gemini 4 Argon, which arrived with two rate cards, an introductory $2 and $10 and a standard $4 and $20 with no stated switch date, and no public access at either: the month ended with a frontier model priced but not yet purchasable.
The flagship launches were Gemini 4 Argon, GPT-6.1 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, Grok 4.7, Pareto 26.9, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GPT-6 Astra, K2 Horizon 375B-A23B, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Muse Spark 1.3, Claude Fable 5.1. Read the September analysis, or filter the full record to this month in the table below.
AI models released in August 2026
12 releases from 7 labs, 6 of them with open weights. Launch prices ran from $0.177 to $6 per million output tokens across the 10 of 12 rows that shipped with a published rate card.
August was the open-weight month. Five of the twelve releases shipped with downloadable weights, and four of them came from Chinese labs, with Alibaba alone accounting for three. The frontier barely moved: Grok 4.6 took the top intelligence score at 61, matching what Claude Opus 5 scored in July rather than beating it. Prices clustered low, from $0.177 to $6 per million output tokens, because the volume was in workhorse and open-weight tiers rather than at the top.
The flagship launches were GLM-5.3-Flash, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, GLM-5.3, Qwen3.8-27B, Gemini 3.7 Flash, Grok 4.6, Muse Glimmer, Qwen3.8-Max. Read the August analysis, or filter the full record to this month in the table below.
AI models released in July 2026
21 releases from 14 labs, 4 of them with open weights. Launch prices ran from $0.2 to $30 per million output tokens across the 11 of 21 rows that shipped with a published rate card.
July was the busiest month in the record by a wide margin: 21 releases from 14 different labs, four times the June count. It is also the month with the widest price spread, $0.20 to $30 per million output tokens, and the month where the launch record starts diverging from the current one. Three of the five per-token price cuts on this page are July models. Ten of the 21 rows carry no per-token rate at all, because speech, image and video models are priced by the second, the character or the image.
The flagship launches were DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, Claude Opus 5, Kimi K3, GPT-5.6 Sol, Grok 4.5. Read the July analysis, or filter the full record to this month in the table below.
AI models released in June 2026
5 releases from 3 labs, 2 of them with open weights. Launch prices ran from $4.4 to $50 per million output tokens across the 4 of 5 rows that shipped with a published rate card.
June is a partial month: this record starts on June 9, 2026, so earlier June releases are not covered and the five rows here are not a complete count. What they do show is a quiet baseline before the July surge, with three labs shipping and Anthropic accounting for three of the five.
The flagship launches were Claude Sonnet 5, GLM-5.2, Claude Fable 5.
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| Released | Model | Launch price | AA Index | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2026 | Muse Wonder Meta Meta's first frontier-tier model, a public API preview at $4/$20, 3.2x Muse Spark 1.3's input rate. Scores 52 on Artificial Analysis at $4.52 per index task, more than GPT-6 Astra's $3.26 at 53. | $4 / $20 | 52 | 1.05M | Official |
| Oct 12, 2026 | Muse Wonder Full Meta The larger Wonder, in Muse Code only on the $50 and $200 plans, with no API and no per-token price. Scores 56 on Artificial Analysis, level with Claude Sonnet 5.5. | – | 56 | 1.05M | Official |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Microsoft-Decision-1 Microsoft A decision model on Microsoft Foundry, post-trained from Qwen3.5-9B, that returns probabilities over set choices. Input $0.042 per Mtok, output not billed: level with Jev, just above pplx-decider. | $0.042 / $0 | – | – | Official |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo Alibaba· open weight(Qwen Research License) An 8-step distilled Qwen-Image-2.1 for generation and editing, weights on Hugging Face under a research licence. Model Studio lists it at $0.014 an image. | – | – | – | Official |
| Oct 7, 2026 | Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic 90% below Haiku 4.5 at $0.10/$0.50 for prompts up to 100K tokens (5x above it). Matches GPT-6 Luna's rate card and scores 43 to its 38 on Artificial Analysis. | $0.1 / $0.5 | 43 | – | Official |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Mistral Large 4 Mistral· open weight A 1.05T, 52B-active preview at a half-price launch sale ($1.36/$4.18 standard). Weights due end of October. Scores 38 on Artificial Analysis, below GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3. | $0.68 / $2.09 | 38 | 1M | Official |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Nano Banana 2.1 Google Halves image output to $30 per Mtok ($0.0336 a 1K image, from $0.067 on Nano Banana 2) but triples input to $1.50. Adds 1:8 and 8:1 aspect ratios. | – | – | – | Official |
| Oct 5, 2026 | Beam Reflection AI· open weight(Apache 2.0) 501B total, 23B active, text-only. Waitlist access only; Apache 2.0 weights promised later in October. Reflection claims GLM-5.2 reasoning at 3-4x less inference compute. | – | – | 1M | Official |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Clef Cloudflare· open weight(Apache 2.0) Cloudflare's first in-house model: an open decision model that returns typed answers with probabilities. Bills input only, at $0.24 per million tokens, with a 209 ms median decision. | $0.24 / $0 | – | 66K | Official |
| Oct 1, 2026 | FLUX 3 Image Black Forest Labs The image half of FLUX 3, ten weeks after the July announcement: up to ten references and 4K output, billed per image from $0.041 at 768px to $0.607 at 4K. | – | – | – | Official |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Griffin-Lite Tavus A full-duplex video-to-video research preview for invited testers: 3.83 on NVIDIA VideoFDB generation against a 3.92 human reference. No price yet. | – | – | – | Official |
| Oct 1, 2026 | MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming Microsoft Microsoft's first streaming speech-to-text model, first on Artificial Analysis AA-WER Streaming at 2.5% word error. Billed $0.54 an hour at an introductory rate through 2026. | – | – | – | Official |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Pareto 26.10 Preview Unbiased Two weeks after Pareto 26.9 launched at $2.50/$7.50, its preview successor lists at $0.80/$3.20: 68% less on input. Vendor-run DeepSWE 69.9%, preliminary. | $0.8 / $3.2 | – | – | Official |
| Oct 1, 2026 | pplx-decider-v1-27b Perplexity· open weight(Apache 2.0) Perplexity's open decision model behind its new Decisions API. At $0.04 per million input tokens, output free, it lists just under Jev's $0.042. | $0.04 / $0 | – | – | Official |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Clef-flash Cloudflare· open weight(Apache 2.0) The latency tier of Clef: a 38.8 ms median decision against 209.3 ms, at $0.09 per million input tokens and nothing for output. | $0.09 / $0 | – | 66K | Official |
| Oct 1, 2026 | MAI-Voice-2.1 Microsoft Text-to-speech across 23 languages and 26 locales, keeping one voice native-accented in all of them. Billed $22 per million characters. | – | – | – | Official |
| Oct 1, 2026 | MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash Microsoft The fast tier: 45 seconds of audio at about 150 ms end-to-end latency, for $15 per million characters against $22 for MAI-Voice-2.1. | – | – | – | Official |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Strands Decider 2B AWS Strands Labs· open weight A 2B decision model that swaps the next-token head for a pointer head over your options. Runs locally at about 115 ms median on an RTX 3090, with training data and scripts published. | – | – | – | Official |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Gemini 4 Argon Google Google's first Gemini 4 model, at an introductory $2/$10 that doubles to $4/$20 on an undated expiry. Ties GPT-6 Astra at 53 on the AA index; Fairwind cyber defenders only at launch. | $2 / $10 | 53 | – | Official |
| Sep 29, 2026 | GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI Kept GPT-6 Sol's $2/$10 but halved the cache read to $0.10, and scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis index, one point behind Astra at a fifth of its price. | $2 / $10 | 52 | 1.05M | Official |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic Kept Sonnet 5's $2/$10 rate card and jumped 18 points to 56 on the Artificial Analysis index, #3 overall, 2 behind Opus 5.5 at half its per-token price. | $2 / $10 | 56 | 1M | Official |
| Sep 22, 2026 | Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic Took the top of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 58 while cutting 20% off every line of the Opus 5 rate card: the first Anthropic flagship to launch cheaper than its predecessor. | $4 / $20 | 58 | 1M | Official |
| Sep 22, 2026 | GPT-6 Sol OpenAI Halved GPT-5.6 Sol on every line to $2/$10, landing on exactly the Claude Sonnet 5 rate card while scoring 10 points above it on the Artificial Analysis index. | $2 / $10 | 48 | 1.05M | Official |
| Sep 22, 2026 | GPT-6 Luna OpenAI The cheapest row on the tracker at $0.10/$0.50. OpenAI calls it a 50% cut, but output fell 58%, so the blended reduction is 55.7%. | $0.1 / $0.5 | 37 | 1.05M | Official |
| Sep 21, 2026 | Grok 4.7 xAI Same $2/$6 as Grok 4.6. Terminal-Bench 4.0 reads 38.0% under the xAI Grok Build harness and 25.8% on a standardized one. Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 46. | $2 / $6 | 46 | 500K | Official |
| Sep 17, 2026 | Pareto 26.9 Unbiased Unmasked after 33 hours as Union Alpha: a blended model tying Astra on DeepSWE at a quarter of its input price. | $2.5 / $7.5 | – | 262K | Official |
| Sep 15, 2026 | Gemini 3.8 Live Google Scale-tier live dialogue model with 97-language switching and visual grounding. Second in the Speech Agent Arena; no per-token rate published. | – | – | – | Official |
| Sep 15, 2026 | Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking Google High-reasoning live model on 131K input: top of S2S Quality at 82.6 and tau-Voice at 68.6%. Reasons and speaks simultaneously. | – | – | 131K | Official |
| Sep 15, 2026 | open-1b Gensyn· open weight(Apache 2.0) 1.61B Apache 2.0 model with per-step state hashes across all 80,957 steps, replayable on own hardware. First fully auditable training run. | – | – | 4K | Official |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Fugu Max Sakana Cost-tier orchestrator over open models at $2/$6, with output priced 40 to 60% below Sonnet 5, GPT-5.6 Terra and Kimi K3. GPT-6 Luna undercut that whole comparison on September 22. | $2 / $6 | – | – | Official |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Fugu Ultra v2 Sakana Peak-capability orchestrator at $5/$30 ($10/$45 past 272K tokens). Chartography 48.3 vs Opus 5 27.3, DeepSWE 74.3, no Fable or Astra in pool. | $5 / $30 | – | – | Official |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Kimi K2.8 Preview Moonshot Mid-tier preview between K2.7 Code and K3: 1M context on all tiers, low/high/max thinking defaulting to max. Same model ID, rollout automatic. | – | – | 1.05M | Official |
| Sep 10, 2026 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek· open weight(MIT) September's only price cut: peak input falls 32% and the cache read 57% against V4 Flash. A 552B causal encoder-decoder activating 8B on prefill, MIT weights. | $0.3 / $1.2 | – | 1M | Official |
| Sep 10, 2026 | GPT-Live-1 OpenAI Full-duplex voice in the API at $0.05 per minute billed per second, with reasoning delegated to a backend model. Backend billed separately. | – | – | – | Official |
| Sep 10, 2026 | SWE-2 Cognition Post-trained from Kimi K3 2.8T, scoring 50.0% on FrontierCode 1.1 within a point of Fable 5.1 at 64% lower cost. Devin-only, no API rate card. | – | – | – | Official |
| Sep 9, 2026 | Ling-3.0-flash-Fin Ant Group· open weight(MIT) Finance tuning of Ling-3.0-flash, 124B total and 5.1B active, MIT weights. Ant Group publishes no per-token rate of its own; hosting is third-party. | – | – | 262K | Official |
| Sep 8, 2026 | GPT Image 2.5 Flare OpenAI The faster default of the two GPT Image 2.5 API variants. Billed per token, not per image, which is why it carries a rate where earlier image rows here carry none. | $8 / $30 | – | – | Official |
| Sep 8, 2026 | GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst OpenAI The precision-control GPT Image 2.5 variant, slower to generate, on the same $8 and $30 per million token rate as Flare. Text input is billed separately at $5. | $8 / $30 | – | – | Official |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Ling-3.0-flash-Sante Ant Group Health and medicine tuning of Ling-3.0-flash, 124B total and 5.1B active. Hosted API only: no weights and no own rate card, unlike the Fin sibling. | – | – | 262K | Reporting |
| Sep 3, 2026 | GPT-6 Astra OpenAI OpenAI's new flagship at $10/$50 per Mtok, 2.5x GPT-5.6 Sol and level with Claude Fable 5.1. Tops Terminal-Bench 4.0 at 58.18% while burning 1.53B tokens to Fable 5.1's 2.75B. | $10 / $50 | 53 | 1.05M | Official |
| Sep 3, 2026 | K2 Horizon 375B-A23B IFM· open weight(Apache 2.0) 375B MoE activating 23B per token, Apache 2.0 with training data and checkpoints. AA 47 at launch; Terminal-Bench 2.1 70.2% self-audited down to 66.9%. | – | 31 | 524K | Official |
| Sep 3, 2026 | K2 Horizon 0.9B IFM· open weight(Apache 2.0) 0.9B watch-scale dense model, 128K context. AIME 2026 48.5 and HumanEval+ 79.9 per IFM, Apache 2.0 weights. | – | – | 131K | Official |
| Sep 3, 2026 | K2 Horizon 36B-A4B IFM· open weight(Apache 2.0) 36B total with 4B active via MoVA sparsity inside attention. Near-dense-32B results at one-eighth the active parameters, 524K context. | – | – | 524K | Official |
| Sep 3, 2026 | K2 Horizon 3.7B IFM· open weight(Apache 2.0) 3.7B model trained on the same 22T tokens as the 7B and 32B. SWE-bench Verified 68.6 vs 41.2 for Qwen3.5-4B on IFM's table. | – | – | 524K | Official |
| Sep 3, 2026 | K2 Horizon 32B IFM· open weight(Apache 2.0) Dense 32B for local serving, 524K context. IFM's own tables trail Qwen3.8-27B on coding; ships Apache 2.0 with full training records. | – | – | 524K | Official |
| Sep 3, 2026 | K2 Horizon 7B IFM· open weight(Apache 2.0) 7B phone-scale model: SWE-bench Verified 70.6, Terminal-Bench 39.1 per IFM. IFM disclosed and excluded a contaminated 82-point SWE-bench run. | – | – | 524K | Official |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Gemini 3.8 Flash Google Third straight Flash generation at $0.75/$3.75 per Mtok, and the third sharing one expiry: the rate doubles on Jan 1, 2027. Reads 41 on the AA Intelligence Index, re-read 2026-09-23. | $0.75 / $3.75 | 41 | 1M | Official |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Muse Spark 1.3 Meta Meta held the 1.2 rate card exactly at $1.25/$4.25 per Mtok and moved the model up a tier on the Artificial Analysis index. The $0.10/$0.20 contributor tier trades its discount for training rights. | $1.25 / $4.25 | 48 | 1.05M | Official |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber Google Vulnerability-hunting twin of 3.8 Flash, restricted to the Fairwind Program for governments, critical infrastructure operators and software maintainers. No published token rate. | – | – | – | Official |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Qwen3.8-Max-0902 Alibaba Post-trained refresh of Qwen3.8-Max at the same $2/$6: Terminal-Bench 3.0 doubles to 29.0 on Qwen's own table. API-only, no new weights. | $2 / $6 | – | 1M | Official |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic Held Fable 5's $10/$50 per Mtok and cut only the cache read, $1.00 to $0.25, a 0.025x multiplier that stayed the lowest on the Claude ladder even after Opus 5.5 undercut the rate itself at $0.20. | $10 / $50 | – | 1M | Official |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Claude Mythos 5.1 Anthropic The same model as Fable 5.1 with safeguards lifted in some areas, at the same $10/$50 and the same $0.25 cache read. Project Glasswing invitation only, never generally available. | $10 / $50 | – | 1M | Official |
| Aug 26, 2026 | GLM-5.3-Flash Zhipu· open weight(MIT) Z.ai reveal of the Ox Alpha stealth model: a 320B-total, 18B-active MoE, MIT-licensed with weights on Hugging Face, and the strongest open-weight score on the AA index at its release. | $0.15 / $0.5 | 42 | 1.05M | Official |
| Aug 26, 2026 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Alibaba· open weight(Qwen Community 1.0) An open-weight preview of the Qwen4 architecture: 125B total, 6B active, plus a 51B n-gram embedding layer. Multimodal in, text out, 262K native context extensible to 1M. | $0.15 / $0.47 | – | 262K | Official |
| Aug 21, 2026 | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp DeepSeek DeepSeek's first multimodal vision model, experimental, priced exactly as V4 Flash: $0.44/$1.32 per Mtok at peak and half that off-peak. Images bill as input tokens by dimension. | $0.44 / $1.32 | – | 1.05M | Official |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Hy-MT2-30B-A3B Tencent Translation flagship, about 3B active params, 33 language pairs plus five Chinese dialect pairs. An 8K context window is the point: a tool, not an agent. | $0.074 / $0.295 | – | 8K | Reporting |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Hy-MT2-1.8B Tencent Compact sibling of Hy-MT2-30B-A3B with the same language coverage, at the cheapest published output rate of any model released in August 2026. | $0.044 / $0.177 | – | 8K | Reporting |
| Aug 14, 2026 | GLM-5.3 Zhipu· open weight Same base as GLM-5.2, all gains from post-training; Terminal-Bench 3.0 jumps 4.6 to 28.3. Unpriced at launch, then listed at the GLM-5.2 rate. Weights followed on Hugging Face on August 25. | $1.4 / $4.4 | – | 1.05M | Official |
| Aug 14, 2026 | Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba· open weight(Apache 2.0) The smaller Qwen3.8 sibling, delivered on the promised week: dense 27B native vision-language, Apache 2.0 with no revenue gate, unlike Qwen3.8-Max. | – | – | 262K | Official |
| Aug 13, 2026 | Gemini 3.7 Flash Google Launched at an introductory $0.75/$3.75 that Google states doubles on 1 January 2027, with DeepSWE v1.1 up to 65.3% from 3.6 Flash 49.0%. | $0.75 / $3.75 | – | – | Official |
| Aug 12, 2026 | Grok 4.6 xAI Same $2/$6 as Grok 4.5 but a pricier cache read, $0.30 to $0.50. Matched the GPT-5.6 Sol tier on the Artificial Analysis index as it stood in August 2026; that index has since been rescaled. | $2 / $6 | 44 | 500K | Official |
| Aug 10, 2026 | Muse Glimmer Meta· open weight(Apache 2.0) Meta returns to a plain Apache 2.0 licence with a 29.6B dense multimodal model that fits one consumer GPU at 4-bit. Built for local agents, not the leaderboard. | – | 17 | 131K | Reporting |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Muse Spark 1.2 Meta Meta holds the 1.1 rate of $1.25/$4.25 and adds a $0.10/$0.20 contributor tier, plus Muse Code, a terminal coding agent, in beta. | $1.25 / $4.25 | – | 1M | Reporting |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Qwen3.8-Max Alibaba· open weight(qwen3.8-max (custom, revenue-gated)) The first Max-class Qwen with published weights (13 August) and, at AA 58, the highest-scoring open-weights model. The licence is custom, not Apache 2.0. | $2 / $6 | 45 | 262K | Official |
| Jul 31, 2026 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 DeepSeek A re-post-trained V4 Flash at the same $0.14/$0.28 price, 6 points above the pricier V4 Pro on the Artificial Analysis index as it stood in July 2026. API beta; 0731 weights not posted. | $0.14 / $0.28 | – | 1.05M | Official |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Claude Opus 5 Anthropic Took the top of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index on the July 2026 scale, at half the per-token price of Claude Fable 5. That index has since been rescaled and the model delisted. | $5 / $25 | – | 1M | Official |
| Jul 23, 2026 | FLUX 3 Black Forest Labs One network spanning image, video, audio and robot action prediction. Video runs in early access; the open-weight Dev build is promised later in 2026. | – | – | – | Official |
| Jul 23, 2026 | Ling-3.0-flash Ant Group A 124B mixture-of-experts firing only 5.1B parameters per token, which Ant says matches its own 1T flagship. Announced as open weight, but shipped API-only with the weights still unpublished. | – | – | 256K | Official |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Gemini 3.6 Flash Google Google's workhorse tier, cut to $7.50 output from the $9.00 that Gemini 3.5 Flash charged, on a claimed 17% drop in output tokens per task. | $1.5 / $7.5 | – | 1.05M | Official |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Laguna S 2.1 poolside· open weight(OpenMDW-1.1) 118B total and 8B active, released under OpenMDW-1.1 at $0.10 in and $0.20 out, the cheapest agentic coding model to ship in July. | $0.1 / $0.2 | – | 1M | Official |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber Google Tuned to find and patch software vulnerabilities, and restricted to governments and trusted partners through the CodeMender pilot. | – | – | – | Official |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Google The cheapest launch price of any July model at $0.30 in, aimed at classification, extraction and routing rather than reasoning. | $0.3 / $2.5 | – | 1.05M | Official |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Qwen-Image-3.0 Alibaba Closed and invite-only at launch, with no model card, weights or published benchmarks to check the multi-panel layout claims against. | – | – | – | Reporting |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS Plus Alibaba Took first place on the Artificial Analysis text-to-speech arena. Billed per character, not per token, at roughly a third of what ElevenLabs charges. | – | – | – | Reporting |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS Flash Alibaba The real-time tier of the same text-to-speech release, covering 16 languages and 20 Chinese dialect regions, hosted only on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. | – | – | – | Reporting |
| Jul 19, 2026 | Qwen3.8-Max-Preview Alibaba A 2.4T-parameter preview shown at the World AI Conference with no model card, no license and no independent benchmarks published alongside it. | – | – | 1M | Reporting |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Kimi K3 Moonshot· open weight 2.8T parameters and the highest-scoring open-weight model of the month. Weights followed on July 26, a day inside Moonshot's own deadline. | $3 / $15 | 44 | 1.05M | Official |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Inkling Thinking Machines· open weight(Apache 2.0) 975B total and 41B active under Apache 2.0, the most permissive license anyone has attached to a model at that parameter scale. | $1.87 / $4.68 | 25 | 1M | Official |
| Jul 9, 2026 | GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI The reasoning tier of the GPT-5.6 line. Launched at $5/$30, cut to $4/$20 on Aug 21, 2026 as a promotional rate; GPT-6 Sol superseded it at $2/$10 on Sep 22 before that window closed. | $5 / $30 | – | 1.05M | Official |
| Jul 9, 2026 | GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI The high-volume tier, launched at $1/$6 and cut 80% on July 30 to $0.20/$1.20, under the retired GPT-5.4 nano floor. Held the cheapest row until GPT-6 Luna halved it on Sep 22. | $1 / $6 | – | 1.05M | Official |
| Jul 9, 2026 | GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI The middle tier, launched at half of Sol and within four AA index points of it. Cut 20% on July 30, 2026 to $2/$12, half of Sol's promotional $4/$20. | $2.5 / $15 | 42 | 1.05M | Official |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Muse Spark 1.1 Meta Meta Superintelligence Labs shipped its first paid model, breaking the open-weight-only posture Meta had held since Llama. | – | – | 1M | Official |
| Jul 8, 2026 | Grok 4.5 xAI Trained on real Cursor session data and priced at $2 in and $6 out, well under half of what Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 charged at the time. | $2 / $6 | – | 500K | Official |
| Jul 8, 2026 | SWE-1.7 Cognition Post-trained on top of Moonshot's already RL-heavy Kimi K2.7 Code, and served inside Devin only. Not sold as a standalone API. | – | – | – | Official |
| Jul 7, 2026 | Cohere Transcribe Arabic Cohere· open weight(Apache 2.0) A 2B open-weight speech recognition model built for Arabic dialect variation and Arabic-English code-switching. | – | – | – | Official |
| Jun 30, 2026 | Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic Anthropic's mid-tier Claude at a $2/$10 introductory rate billed as expiring on August 31. Anthropic cancelled that rise in August and made $2/$10 the standard price. | $2 / $10 | – | 1M | Official |
| Jun 16, 2026 | GLM-5.2 Zhipu· open weight(MIT) Z.ai's coding flagship, MIT-licensed with weights on Hugging Face, at $1.40/$4.40 per Mtok. The same rate GLM-5.1 carried and the same rate GLM-5.3 would carry three months later. | $1.4 / $4.4 | – | – | Official |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Claude Fable 5 Anthropic Anthropic's Mythos-class flagship made safe for general use, at $10/$50 per Mtok. Suspended three days later by a US export-control directive, restored after that order lifted on June 30. | $10 / $50 | – | 1M | Official |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Claude Mythos 5 Anthropic The same underlying model as Fable 5 with safeguards lifted in some areas, at the same $10/$50. Restricted to Project Glasswing partners and select researchers, never generally available. | $10 / $50 | – | – | Official |
| Jun 9, 2026 | North Mini Code Cohere· open weight(Apache 2.0) Cohere's first developer model: a 30B-total, 3B-active sparse MoE coding agent, Apache 2.0, running on one H100 at FP8. Free on hosted endpoints, so it launched with no rate card. | – | – | 262K | Official |
Launch price is the standard non-batch rate the lab published on release day, in USD per million tokens. A dash means the model has no per-token rate card: speech and image models are billed per character or per generation, and some models ship only inside a product. AA Index is the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at or near launch. Source links to the lab announcement, or is marked Reporting where no primary source exists.
What the October record actually shows
Three things stand out once the month is laid out chronologically rather than as a leaderboard.
Prices moved in both directions in the same fortnight. GPT-6 Astra listed at $10 and $50 per million tokens, two and a half times what GPT-5.6 Sol charged and the first increase at the frontier tier in years. Six days later DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cut the efficiency tier, taking peak input 32% and the cache read 57% below the V4 Flash it retires. Every priced release with a predecessor held its headline rate exactly; the two genuinely new priced releases, Sakana's Fugu Max and Ultra v2 orchestrators and Unbiased's Pareto 26.9, set their own. A month summarised as either a rise or a cut is summarised wrongly. Put any two of these against the same task with the model comparison tool.
The open-weight releases were the ones that changed a price. 7 of 18 releases shipped with downloadable weights, seven of them Apache 2.0, six from IFM's K2 fleet plus Gensyn's auditable open-1b, and two MIT. That is no longer a small share, but the cut above still came from one of the MIT pair rather than from a proprietary lab defending share, and the other, Ant Group's finance-tuned Ling-3.0-flash-Fin, ships weights while publishing no rate card of its own at all, a position all six K2 models share. The open-weight tier is now setting the price floor rather than following it.
Most of the month was not frontier models. Seven of the 18 releases were frontier launches; the rest were workhorse, specialist, image, voice and open-weight models, including two domain fine-tunes aimed at finance and at medicine, a vulnerability-hunting Gemini variant nobody outside a vetted programme can call, three voice models with no per-token rate, two orchestrators that route across open models, and a six-model open fleet with no rate card at all, plus the first fully auditable training run. That is the shape of a maturing market: the frontier gets a few launches a month and the volume moves to specialised models that do one job cheaply. Fifteen rows this month carry no per-token rate at all, which is why they show a dash rather than a number.
For the narrative version of this month, with the benchmark detail and what it means for what you pay, read the October 2026 model roundup. For which of these you can call at no cost, see free AI models, and for what the benchmark names in each announcement actually measure, the AI benchmark directory.
Frequently asked questions
- How many AI models were released in October 2026?
- 18 model releases in October 2026 are verifiable against a dated source, from 13 different labs. That count is deliberately narrower than the auto-ingested catalogs, which list every fine-tune, quantization and re-hosted variant and run to dozens of rows a month. Counted here are distinct models a lab announced as a release: Muse Wonder, Mistral Large 4 were the flagship launches, and 7 of the 18 shipped with open weights.
- What was the most recent AI model release?
- Muse Wonder from Meta, released Oct 12, 2026. Meta's first frontier-tier model, a public API preview at $4/$20, 3.2x Muse Spark 1.3's input rate. Scores 52 on Artificial Analysis at $4.52 per index task, more than GPT-6 Astra's $3.26 at 53.
- Why do AI model release trackers disagree on dates?
- Because most of them ingest a catalog rather than read an announcement, so they record the date a model appeared in an API listing rather than the date the lab shipped it. Two live examples: Grok STT 1.0 is dated July 23, 2026 by one major timeline, but xAI released it on March 16, 2026 and July 23 is only when it was added to OpenRouter. Kimi K3 is dated July 14 by one tracker and July 16 by two others; Moonshot unveiled it on July 16. Every date on this page is read off the lab announcement, and the handful that are not are labelled as reporting.
- What is a launch price, and why track it separately?
- A launch price is the standard per-token rate the lab published on release day. It is worth freezing because per-token rates move: a model repriced downward six months later looks cheap in a current price table, which hides how the market actually shifted. Holding the launch price next to the current rate is how you see the drift. No other release tracker records it.
- Which lab shipped the most models in October 2026?
- Microsoft, with 4. The full split: Microsoft 4, Cloudflare 2, Meta 2, Alibaba 1, Anthropic 1, AWS Strands Labs 1, Black Forest Labs 1, Google 1, Mistral 1, Perplexity 1, Reflection AI 1, Tavus 1, Unbiased 1. Volume is not quality: a three-model drop in one announcement is one product decision, not three independent launches.
- How much did AI model prices vary at launch?
- By about Infinityx within a single month. In October 2026 the cheapest launch output rate was $0 per million tokens (Microsoft-Decision-1) and the most expensive was $20 (Muse Wonder). Per-token price is a poor guide to what work costs, though: token consumption varies more between models than the sticker rate does.
- Where does this release data come from?
- Each row is read off the lab's own announcement, documentation or press release and stamped with the date it was checked. 81 of 90 rows are sourced that way. 9 rest on reporting because the lab published no announcement page, and those are marked as such in the table and in the JSON. Nothing is taken from memory or from another tracker.
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Sources
One primary source per release, with the date it was checked. 81 of 90cite the lab's own announcement, documentation or press release; rows marked reporting had no citable announcement from the lab. The full list is collapsed because it runs to 90 entries.
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- Meta (2026). Muse Wonder. Announcement. Released Oct 12, verified Oct 13.
- Meta (2026). Muse Wonder Full. Announcement. Released Oct 12, verified Oct 13.
- Microsoft (2026). Microsoft-Decision-1. Announcement. Released Oct 9, verified Oct 13.
- Alibaba (2026). Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo. Announcement. Released Oct 9, verified Oct 13.
- Anthropic (2026). Claude Haiku 5.5. Announcement. Released Oct 7, verified Oct 8.
- Mistral (2026). Mistral Large 4. Announcement. Released Oct 6, verified Oct 8.
- Google (2026). Nano Banana 2.1. Announcement. Released Oct 6, verified Oct 8.
- Reflection AI (2026). Beam. Announcement. Released Oct 5, verified Oct 8.
- Cloudflare (2026). Clef. Announcement. Released Oct 1, verified Oct 4.
- Black Forest Labs (2026). FLUX 3 Image. Announcement. Released Oct 1, verified Oct 4.
- Tavus (2026). Griffin-Lite. Announcement. Released Oct 1, verified Oct 4.
- Microsoft (2026). MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming. Announcement. Released Oct 1, verified Oct 4.
- Unbiased (2026). Pareto 26.10 Preview. Announcement. Released Oct 1, verified Oct 4.
- Perplexity (2026). pplx-decider-v1-27b. Announcement. Released Oct 1, verified Oct 4.
- Cloudflare (2026). Clef-flash. Announcement. Released Oct 1, verified Oct 4.
- Microsoft (2026). MAI-Voice-2.1. Announcement. Released Oct 1, verified Oct 4.
- Microsoft (2026). MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash. Announcement. Released Oct 1, verified Oct 4.
- AWS Strands Labs (2026). Strands Decider 2B. Announcement. Released Oct 1, verified Oct 4.
- Google (2026). Gemini 4 Argon. Announcement. Released Sep 30, verified Oct 1.
- OpenAI (2026). GPT-6.1 Sol. Announcement. Released Sep 29, verified Sep 30.
- Anthropic (2026). Claude Sonnet 5.5. Announcement. Released Sep 28, verified Sep 29.
- Anthropic (2026). Claude Opus 5.5. Announcement. Released Sep 22, verified Sep 23.
- OpenAI (2026). GPT-6 Sol. Announcement. Released Sep 22, verified Sep 23.
- OpenAI (2026). GPT-6 Luna. Announcement. Released Sep 22, verified Sep 23.
- xAI (2026). Grok 4.7. Announcement. Released Sep 21, verified Sep 23.
- Unbiased (2026). Pareto 26.9. Announcement. Released Sep 17, verified Sep 18.
- Google (2026). Gemini 3.8 Live. Announcement. Released Sep 15, verified Sep 18.
- Google (2026). Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking. Announcement. Released Sep 15, verified Sep 18.
- Gensyn (2026). open-1b. Announcement. Released Sep 15, verified Sep 18.
- Sakana (2026). Fugu Max. Announcement. Released Sep 11, verified Sep 18.
- Sakana (2026). Fugu Ultra v2. Announcement. Released Sep 11, verified Sep 18.
- Moonshot (2026). Kimi K2.8 Preview. Announcement. Released Sep 11, verified Sep 18.
- DeepSeek (2026). DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Announcement. Released Sep 10, verified Sep 11.
- OpenAI (2026). GPT-Live-1. Announcement. Released Sep 10, verified Sep 18.
- Cognition (2026). SWE-2. Announcement. Released Sep 10, verified Sep 18.
- Ant Group (2026). Ling-3.0-flash-Fin. Announcement. Released Sep 9, verified Sep 11.
- OpenAI (2026). GPT Image 2.5 Flare. Announcement. Released Sep 8, verified Sep 11.
- OpenAI (2026). GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst. Announcement. Released Sep 8, verified Sep 11.
- Ant Group (2026). Ling-3.0-flash-Sante. Reporting. Released Sep 4, verified Sep 11.
- OpenAI (2026). GPT-6 Astra. Announcement. Released Sep 3, verified Sep 23.
- IFM (2026). K2 Horizon 375B-A23B. Announcement. Released Sep 3, verified Sep 23.
- IFM (2026). K2 Horizon 0.9B. Announcement. Released Sep 3, verified Sep 13.
- IFM (2026). K2 Horizon 36B-A4B. Announcement. Released Sep 3, verified Sep 13.
- IFM (2026). K2 Horizon 3.7B. Announcement. Released Sep 3, verified Sep 13.
- IFM (2026). K2 Horizon 32B. Announcement. Released Sep 3, verified Sep 13.
- IFM (2026). K2 Horizon 7B. Announcement. Released Sep 3, verified Sep 13.
- Google (2026). Gemini 3.8 Flash. Announcement. Released Sep 2, verified Sep 23.
- Meta (2026). Muse Spark 1.3. Announcement. Released Sep 2, verified Sep 23.
- Google (2026). Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber. Announcement. Released Sep 2, verified Sep 3.
- Alibaba (2026). Qwen3.8-Max-0902. Announcement. Released Sep 2, verified Sep 6.
- Anthropic (2026). Claude Fable 5.1. Announcement. Released Sep 1, verified Sep 2.
- Anthropic (2026). Claude Mythos 5.1. Announcement. Released Sep 1, verified Sep 2.
- Zhipu (2026). GLM-5.3-Flash. Announcement. Released Aug 26, verified Sep 23.
- Alibaba (2026). Qwen3.8-Flash-Next. Announcement. Released Aug 26, verified Aug 31.
- DeepSeek (2026). DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp. Announcement. Released Aug 21, verified Aug 31.
- Tencent (2026). Hy-MT2-30B-A3B. Reporting. Released Aug 20, verified Aug 21.
- Tencent (2026). Hy-MT2-1.8B. Reporting. Released Aug 20, verified Aug 21.
- Zhipu (2026). GLM-5.3. Announcement. Released Aug 14, verified Oct 8.
- Alibaba (2026). Qwen3.8-27B. Announcement. Released Aug 14, verified Aug 21.
- Google (2026). Gemini 3.7 Flash. Announcement. Released Aug 13, verified Aug 14.
- xAI (2026). Grok 4.6. Announcement. Released Aug 12, verified Sep 23.
- Meta (2026). Muse Glimmer. Reporting. Released Aug 10, verified Sep 23.
- Meta (2026). Muse Spark 1.2. Reporting. Released Aug 5, verified Aug 14.
- Alibaba (2026). Qwen3.8-Max. Announcement. Released Aug 3, verified Sep 23.
- DeepSeek (2026). DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731. Announcement. Released Jul 31, verified Jul 31.
- Anthropic (2026). Claude Opus 5. Announcement. Released Jul 24, verified Jul 29.
- Black Forest Labs (2026). FLUX 3. Announcement. Released Jul 23, verified Jul 29.
- Ant Group (2026). Ling-3.0-flash. Announcement. Released Jul 23, verified Jul 29.
- Google (2026). Gemini 3.6 Flash. Announcement. Released Jul 21, verified Jul 29.
- poolside (2026). Laguna S 2.1. Announcement. Released Jul 21, verified Jul 29.
- Google (2026). Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. Announcement. Released Jul 21, verified Jul 29.
- Google (2026). Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite. Announcement. Released Jul 21, verified Jul 29.
- Alibaba (2026). Qwen-Image-3.0. Reporting. Released Jul 21, verified Jul 29.
- Alibaba (2026). Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS Plus. Reporting. Released Jul 20, verified Jul 29.
- Alibaba (2026). Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS Flash. Reporting. Released Jul 20, verified Jul 29.
- Alibaba (2026). Qwen3.8-Max-Preview. Reporting. Released Jul 19, verified Jul 29.
- Moonshot (2026). Kimi K3. Announcement. Released Jul 16, verified Sep 23.
- Thinking Machines (2026). Inkling. Announcement. Released Jul 15, verified Sep 23.
- OpenAI (2026). GPT-5.6 Sol. Announcement. Released Jul 9, verified Aug 25.
- OpenAI (2026). GPT-5.6 Luna. Announcement. Released Jul 9, verified Jul 31.
- OpenAI (2026). GPT-5.6 Terra. Announcement. Released Jul 9, verified Sep 23.
- Meta (2026). Muse Spark 1.1. Announcement. Released Jul 9, verified Jul 29.
- xAI (2026). Grok 4.5. Announcement. Released Jul 8, verified Jul 29.
- Cognition (2026). SWE-1.7. Announcement. Released Jul 8, verified Jul 29.
- Cohere (2026). Cohere Transcribe Arabic. Announcement. Released Jul 7, verified Jul 29.
- Anthropic (2026). Claude Sonnet 5. Announcement. Released Jun 30, verified Aug 14.
- Zhipu (2026). GLM-5.2. Announcement. Released Jun 16, verified Aug 31.
- Anthropic (2026). Claude Fable 5. Announcement. Released Jun 9, verified Aug 31.
- Anthropic (2026). Claude Mythos 5. Announcement. Released Jun 9, verified Aug 31.
- Cohere (2026). North Mini Code. Announcement. Released Jun 9, verified Jun 23.
- Artificial Analysis (2026). Intelligence Index and model pages. artificialanalysis.ai/models. Independent benchmark composite, used for the AA Index column.