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Models

What each model family is for. Benchmarks move monthly and leads are often inside the noise, so these pages focus on context, cost, latency and the tasks each one suits.

Model Developer Context Input Output
Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic 1M tokens $10 $50
Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic 200K tokens $1 $5
Claude Opus 5 Anthropic 1M tokens $5 $25
Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic 1M tokens $2 $10
Command A+ Cohere 128K tokens — —
Composer 2.5 Cursor (Anysphere) — $0.50 $2.50
DBRX (Discontinued) Databricks 32K tokens — —
DeepSeek V4 DeepSeek 1M tokens $1.32 $3.96
Doubao Seed 2.0 Code ByteDance 256K tokens — —
ERNIE 5.1 Baidu 128K tokens — —
Gemini 3.8 Flash Google 1M tokens $0.75 $3.75
Gemma 4 Google DeepMind 128K–256K tokens — —
GLM-5.3 Zhipu AI 1M tokens $1.40 $4.40
GPT-6 Astra OpenAI 1,050,000 tokens $10 $50
Grok 4.6 xAI 500K tokens $2.00 $6.00
HappyHorse 1.1 Alibaba Token Hub (ATH) — — —
HiDream-O1-Image HiDream.ai — — —
HunyuanImage 3.0 Tencent — — —
Inkling Thinking Machines Lab 1M tokens $1.87 $4.68
Kimi K3 Moonshot AI 1M tokens $3.00 $15.00
Kling 3.0 Kuaishou — — —
Ling-2.6-1T Ant Group (inclusionAI) 1M tokens native (256K via API) — —
Llama 4 Meta 10M tokens (Scout) — —
LongCat-2.0 Meituan 1M tokens $0.75 $2.95
MiMo-V2.5-Pro Xiaomi 1M tokens $0.435 $0.87
MiniMax H3 (Hailuo 3.0) MiniMax — — —
MiniMax-M3 MiniMax 1M tokens $0.30 $1.20
Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral AI 256K tokens $1.50 $7.50
MOSS-TTS OpenMOSS — — —
Muse Glimmer Meta 128K tokens — —
Muse Spark 1.3 Meta 1,048,576 tokens $1.25 $4.25
Nano Banana Google — — —
Nemotron 3 Ultra NVIDIA 1M tokens $0.50 $2.20
Qwen-Image 3.0 Alibaba — — —
Qwen3.8-Max Alibaba Cloud 1M tokens $2.00 $6.00
Seed 2.1 (Doubao) ByteDance 256K tokens (1M on Doubao-Seed-Evolving) — —
Seed1.5-VL ByteDance — — —
Seedance 2.5 ByteDance Seed — — —
Seedream 5.0 ByteDance Seed — — —
Sora 2 (Discontinued) OpenAI — — —
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Stability AI — — —
Step-3.7-Flash StepFun 256K tokens $0.20 $1.15
Tencent Hy4 preview Tencent 1M tokens $0.834 / 1M tokens $2.501 / 1M tokens
Veo 3.1 Google DeepMind — — —
Vidu Q3 Pro ShengShu Technology — — —
Wan 3.0 Alibaba (Tongyi Lab) — — —
Z-Image Alibaba Tongyi-MAI — — —

Prices are per million tokens and change several times a year. Every model page carries its own review date — check the vendor before budgeting.

Start with the concepts

Most model comparisons stop making sense without context windows, tokens and quantization. All three are in the glossary.