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    "id": "nvidia-nemotron-3-5-super-vl",
    "name": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL",
    "developer": "NVIDIA",
    "released": "2026-10-15",
    "access": "open-weights",
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      "text",
      "image",
      "video"
    ],
    "notes": "Open 120-billion-parameter multimodal model with 12 billion parameters active per token, released with smaller Bolt models for local hardware; NVIDIA did not publish benchmark scores with the announcement, and we could not confirm the license text.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Open From Data Center to Desktop: NVIDIA Expands Nemotron Family With Highest Efficiency Super VL and Bolt Models",
        "url": "https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-3-5-super-vl/",
        "publisher": "NVIDIA",
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      },
      {
        "title": "NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B Open Multimodal Agent Model",
        "url": "https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/15/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-super-vl-release/",
        "publisher": "MarkTechPost",
        "type": "independent",
        "published": "2026-10-15"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "meta-muse-wonder",
    "name": "Muse Wonder",
    "developer": "Meta",
    "released": "2026-10-12",
    "access": "api",
    "license": "Proprietary",
    "context_window": 1000000,
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    "price_output": 20,
    "notes": "Meta Superintelligence Labs' first frontier model; a stronger Muse Wonder Full is limited to Muse Code subscribers and not sold through the API, and the benchmark comparisons in Meta's model card are company-reported.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Introducing Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full: Frontier Models for Agents",
        "url": "https://about.fb.com/news/2026/10/introducing-muse-wonder-models/",
        "publisher": "Meta",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Muse Wonder - Meta for Developers",
        "url": "https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-wonder/",
        "publisher": "Meta",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder",
        "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/12/meta-releases-its-first-frontier-model-muse-wonder/",
        "publisher": "TechCrunch",
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  {
    "id": "claude-haiku-5-5",
    "name": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
    "developer": "Anthropic",
    "released": "2026-10-07",
    "access": "api",
    "license": "Proprietary",
    "price_input": 0.1,
    "price_output": 0.5,
    "notes": "Anthropic's small, low-cost model for high-volume work such as summarization and subagents; prices shown are the starting rates Anthropic lists, and Anthropic says it costs about 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5 on average.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5",
        "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5",
        "publisher": "Anthropic",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Claude Haiku 5.5 - Claude Platform Docs",
        "url": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/haiku-5-5/overview",
        "publisher": "Anthropic",
        "type": "primary"
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    "id": "mistral-large-4",
    "name": "Mistral Large 4",
    "developer": "Mistral AI",
    "released": "2026-10-06",
    "access": "api",
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    "price_input": 1.36,
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    "notes": "Released as a public preview with weights promised later; Mistral lists these as regular prices with a half-price launch sale, gives about 1 trillion total parameters (its docs and an NVIDIA announcement differ on active parameters), and its benchmark figures are company-reported.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Introducing Mistral Large 4",
        "url": "https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/",
        "publisher": "Mistral AI",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Mistral Large 4 - Mistral AI",
        "url": "https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-large-4-0",
        "publisher": "Mistral AI",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Mistral's new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals",
        "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/06/mistrals-new-1t-model-aims-to-leapfrog-closed-and-open-rivals/",
        "publisher": "TechCrunch",
        "type": "independent",
        "published": "2026-10-06"
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    "id": "google-gemini-4-argon",
    "name": "Gemini 4 Argon",
    "developer": "Google DeepMind",
    "released": "2026-09-30",
    "access": "api",
    "license": "Proprietary",
    "price_input": 4,
    "price_output": 20,
    "notes": "Announced on 30 September for vetted cyber defenders only and made generally available to paid tiers on 13 October; the prices shown are Google's standard rates from 1 December 2026, after an introductory $2 input and $10 output, and Google's benchmark scores (such as 68% on CWE-bench v1) are company-reported.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "related": [
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    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence",
        "url": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/",
        "publisher": "Google",
        "type": "primary",
        "published": "2026-09-30"
      },
      {
        "title": "Gemini Developer API pricing",
        "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing",
        "publisher": "Google",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Google DeepMind on X, \"Gemini 4 Argon is now globally available\"",
        "url": "https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/2110039274922131792",
        "publisher": "Google DeepMind",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet",
        "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/google-releases-gemini-4-argon-called-its-most-powerful-model-yet/",
        "publisher": "TechCrunch",
        "type": "independent",
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    "id": "openai-gpt-6-1-sol",
    "name": "GPT-6.1 Sol",
    "developer": "OpenAI",
    "released": "2026-09-29",
    "access": "api",
    "license": "Proprietary",
    "price_input": 2,
    "price_output": 10,
    "notes": "Released at DevDay as an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol; OpenAI says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding and computer use (company-reported) and rates it Critical for cybersecurity under its Preparedness Framework.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "related": [
      "models-openai-gpt-6-1-sol"
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    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol",
        "url": "https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/",
        "publisher": "OpenAI",
        "type": "primary",
        "published": "2026-09-29"
      },
      {
        "title": "Addendum to GPT-6 Astra System Card: GPT-6.1 Sol",
        "url": "https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-1-sol",
        "publisher": "OpenAI",
        "type": "document"
      },
      {
        "title": "OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less",
        "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/openai-launches-gpt-6-1-sol-says-it-nearly-matches-gpt-6-astra-and-costs-less/",
        "publisher": "TechCrunch",
        "type": "independent",
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    "id": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
    "name": "Claude Sonnet 5.5",
    "developer": "Anthropic",
    "released": "2026-09-28",
    "access": "api",
    "license": "Proprietary",
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    "price_input": 2,
    "price_output": 10,
    "notes": "Positioned as a faster, cheaper companion to Opus 5.5; Anthropic says it outperforms Opus 5.5 on agentic coding (company-reported) and halved its cache-read price on 7 October.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Claude Sonnet 5.5 - Claude Platform Docs",
        "url": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/sonnet-5-5/overview",
        "publisher": "Anthropic",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner",
        "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/anthropic-releases-sonnet-5-5-which-it-calls-a-significantly-cheaper-faster-work-partner/",
        "publisher": "TechCrunch",
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      }
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  {
    "id": "claude-opus-5-5",
    "name": "Claude Opus 5.5",
    "developer": "Anthropic",
    "released": "2026-09-22",
    "access": "api",
    "license": "Proprietary",
    "context_window": 1000000,
    "price_input": 4,
    "price_output": 20,
    "notes": "First model in Anthropic's Claude 5.5 family, priced 20% below Opus 5; Anthropic says it performs close to Claude Fable 5.1 on most work, a company-reported comparison.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Introducing Claude Opus 5.5",
        "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5",
        "publisher": "Anthropic",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Claude Opus 5.5 - Claude Platform Docs",
        "url": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/opus-5-5/overview",
        "publisher": "Anthropic",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "System Card: Claude Opus 5.5",
        "url": "https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/fc1b44717c85dc068bc6ba5024219938094694bd/Claude%20Opus%205.5%20System%20Card.pdf",
        "publisher": "Anthropic",
        "type": "document"
      },
      {
        "title": "Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance",
        "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/anthropic-releases-opus-5-5-with-lower-prices-and-fable-level-performance/",
        "publisher": "TechCrunch",
        "type": "independent",
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    ]
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  {
    "id": "openai-gpt-6-sol",
    "name": "GPT-6 Sol",
    "developer": "OpenAI",
    "released": "2026-09-22",
    "access": "api",
    "license": "Proprietary",
    "price_input": 2,
    "price_output": 10,
    "notes": "Mid-tier GPT-6 model released in the API alongside GPT-6 Luna about three weeks after GPT-6 Astra; succeeded by GPT-6.1 Sol on 29 September.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Announcing GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna in the API, Codex and ChatGPT",
        "url": "https://community.openai.com/t/announcing-gpt-6-sol-and-gpt-6-luna-in-the-api-codex-and-chatgpt/1399925",
        "publisher": "OpenAI Developer Community",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "ChatGPT Rate Card (Enterprise token-based pricing)",
        "url": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001415-chatgpt-rate-card-enterprise-token-based-pricing",
        "publisher": "OpenAI",
        "type": "primary"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "openai-gpt-6-luna",
    "name": "GPT-6 Luna",
    "developer": "OpenAI",
    "released": "2026-09-22",
    "access": "api",
    "license": "Proprietary",
    "price_input": 0.1,
    "price_output": 0.5,
    "notes": "Lowest-cost GPT-6 model, released in the API with GPT-6 Sol; OpenAI also lists Batch and Fast tiers at different rates.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Announcing GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna in the API, Codex and ChatGPT",
        "url": "https://community.openai.com/t/announcing-gpt-6-sol-and-gpt-6-luna-in-the-api-codex-and-chatgpt/1399925",
        "publisher": "OpenAI Developer Community",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Pricing",
        "url": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing",
        "publisher": "OpenAI",
        "type": "primary"
      }
    ]
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    "id": "xai-grok-4-7",
    "name": "Grok 4.7",
    "developer": "xAI",
    "released": "2026-09-21",
    "access": "api",
    "license": "Proprietary",
    "context_window": 500000,
    "price_input": 2,
    "price_output": 6,
    "modalities": [
      "text",
      "image"
    ],
    "notes": "xAI's coding and knowledge-work model, with text and image input and text output; prompts over 200,000 tokens are billed at a higher rate, and xAI's release notes carry an earlier 17 September entry than the 21 September announcement.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Introducing Grok 4.7",
        "url": "https://x.ai/news/grok-4-7",
        "publisher": "xAI",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Grok 4.7 Developer Guide",
        "url": "https://docs.x.ai/developers/grok-4-7",
        "publisher": "xAI",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Model Card: Grok 4.7",
        "url": "https://media.x.ai/v1/website/card4p7-3a96f40b.pdf",
        "publisher": "xAI",
        "type": "document"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "openai-gpt-6-astra",
    "name": "GPT-6 Astra",
    "developer": "OpenAI",
    "released": "2026-09-03",
    "access": "api",
    "license": "Proprietary",
    "price_input": 10,
    "price_output": 50,
    "notes": "OpenAI's flagship, rolled out first to a limited set of organizations and the first OpenAI model it classifies as Critical for cybersecurity; its benchmark scores, such as 98% on FrontierMath Tier 4, are company-reported.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence",
        "url": "https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/",
        "publisher": "OpenAI",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra",
        "url": "https://openai.com/index/safety-overview-gpt-6-astra/",
        "publisher": "OpenAI",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "GPT-6 Astra System Card",
        "url": "https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra",
        "publisher": "OpenAI",
        "type": "document"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "google-gemini-3-8-flash",
    "name": "Gemini 3.8 Flash",
    "developer": "Google DeepMind",
    "released": "2026-09-02",
    "access": "api",
    "license": "Proprietary",
    "price_input": 1.5,
    "price_output": 7.5,
    "notes": "Successor to Gemini 3.7 Flash, released with a cybersecurity variant; prices shown are Google's standard rates from 1 January 2027, after an introductory $0.75 input and $3.75 output through 31 December 2026.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber",
        "url": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/",
        "publisher": "Google",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Release notes, Gemini API",
        "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog",
        "publisher": "Google",
        "type": "primary"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "claude-fable-5-1",
    "name": "Claude Fable 5.1",
    "developer": "Anthropic",
    "released": "2026-09-01",
    "access": "api",
    "license": "Proprietary",
    "context_window": 1000000,
    "price_input": 10,
    "price_output": 50,
    "notes": "Anthropic's most capable generally available model, released with Claude Mythos 5.1, the same model with fewer safeguards for trusted-access programs only; Anthropic reports 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science (company-reported).",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1",
        "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1",
        "publisher": "Anthropic",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Claude Fable 5.1 - Claude Platform Docs",
        "url": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/fable-5-1/overview",
        "publisher": "Anthropic",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.1 With Lower Costs and Fewer False Positives",
        "url": "https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/01/anthropic-claude-fable-5-1/",
        "publisher": "MacRumors",
        "type": "independent",
        "published": "2026-09-01"
      }
    ]
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  {
    "id": "deepseek-v4-pro",
    "name": "DeepSeek-V4-Pro",
    "developer": "DeepSeek",
    "released": "2026-08-13",
    "access": "open-weights",
    "license": "MIT",
    "context_window": 1000000,
    "notes": "General-availability release of the V4 model previewed on 24 April, a 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 49 billion active; prices are omitted because DeepSeek's pricing page uses peak and off-peak rates and we could not match its columns to models.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "DeepSeek-V4-Pro GA Release",
        "url": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260813/",
        "publisher": "DeepSeek",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "DeepSeek V4 Preview Release",
        "url": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260424/",
        "publisher": "DeepSeek",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813",
        "url": "https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813",
        "publisher": "Hugging Face",
        "type": "document"
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    "id": "alibaba-qwen3-8-max",
    "name": "Qwen3.8-Max",
    "developer": "Alibaba (Qwen)",
    "released": "2026-08-03",
    "access": "open-weights",
    "license": "Custom Qwen license with commercial restrictions",
    "context_window": 1000000,
    "notes": "A 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 95 billion active, first offered through Alibaba Cloud's API and released as open weights about two weeks later; companies above $50 million in revenue need a separate commercial license, and its Text Arena ranking is as reported by Alibaba.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max: Its Largest and Most Capable Flagship Model to Date",
        "url": "https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/press-room/alibaba-unveils-qwen3-8-max?_p_lc=1",
        "publisher": "Alibaba Cloud",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Alibaba shares rally after unveiling Qwen3.8-Max AI model",
        "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/03/alibaba-ai-model-qwen-rival-anthropic.html",
        "publisher": "CNBC",
        "type": "independent",
        "published": "2026-08-03"
      },
      {
        "title": "Alibaba adds commercial restrictions to open-weight Qwen3.8-Max AI model",
        "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3363927/alibaba-adds-commercial-restrictions-open-weight-qwen38-max-ai-model",
        "publisher": "South China Morning Post",
        "type": "independent"
      }
    ]
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    "id": "zhipu-glm-5-3",
    "name": "GLM-5.3",
    "developer": "Zhipu AI (Z.ai)",
    "released": "2026-08-01",
    "access": "open-weights",
    "license": "GLM-5.3 License",
    "context_window": 1000000,
    "modalities": [
      "text"
    ],
    "notes": "Release month only (mid-August 2026; we could not confirm the day from Z.ai); weights followed about two weeks after API launch under a license that requires a security review for hosts with more than $10 billion in revenue, and its CyberGym result is company-reported.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "GLM-5.3 - Overview",
        "url": "https://docs.z.ai/guides/llm/glm-5.3",
        "publisher": "Z.ai",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Z.ai's GLM-5.3 goes open weight, but its new license aims at hyperscalers",
        "url": "https://thenewstack.io/zai-glm-weights-license/",
        "publisher": "The New Stack",
        "type": "independent"
      },
      {
        "title": "Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.3, claims it's the strongest open-weights coding model",
        "url": "https://the-decoder.com/zhipu-ai-releases-glm-5-3-claims-its-the-strongest-open-weights-coding-model/",
        "publisher": "The Decoder",
        "type": "independent"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "claude-opus-5",
    "name": "Claude Opus 5",
    "developer": "Anthropic",
    "released": "2026-07-24",
    "access": "api",
    "license": "Proprietary",
    "context_window": 1000000,
    "price_input": 5,
    "price_output": 25,
    "notes": "Priced the same as Opus 4.8; Anthropic said it was state of the art on coding and knowledge-work evaluations (company-reported), and it is now listed as a legacy model after Opus 5.5.",
    "figure_source": "company",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-22",
    "sources": [
      {
        "title": "Introducing Claude Opus 5",
        "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5",
        "publisher": "Anthropic",
        "type": "primary",
        "published": "2026-07-24"
      },
      {
        "title": "Claude Opus 5 - Claude Platform Docs",
        "url": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/opus-5/overview",
        "publisher": "Anthropic",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Anthropic launches Opus 5",
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        "title": "Meta debuts new AI model, attempting to catch Google, OpenAI after spending billions",
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        "title": "Gemini 3.1 Pro - Model Card",
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