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33 models tracked verified through 12 Aug 2026 last verified 11 Sep 2026 next review by 11 Sep 2026

Models tracked: 33
Open weights: 8
Developers: 11
Re-verify cycle: 30day

Largest context window GPT-6 Astra · 1.1M tokens

Latest change DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on 10 Sep 2026 and retired V4-Flash and V4-Flash-Vision-Exp from its API, so both rows move to Retired with weights-only access. V4-Pro moves to Deprecated as DeepSeek phases it out. Source: api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260910 (10 Sep 2026) All changes

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33 models from 11 developers, of which 8 ship open weights. 14 of 33 disclose a training-data cutoff; the rest publish none, and this table leaves those cells empty rather than estimating them.

A sourced timeline of model releases, not a benchmark board. Specs and pricing are as published by the developer; “undisclosed” stays undisclosed, and price is a relative tier with the exact figure on the provider’s page via each row’s source. Informational only.
Model	Developer	Released	Modality	License	Price	Access	Our coverage
GPT-6 Astra	OpenAI	Sep 2026	Text + Vision	Proprietary	High tier	Limited	OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra After Largest Training Run Yet →
Context window 1.1M tokens Parameters Undisclosed Knowledge cutoff Apr 2026 Lifecycle Current Stated use Hardest end-to-end work across computer use, browsing and software engineering License terms Commercial API; OpenAI terms. Trusted Access Program for enterprises at launch Primary source OpenAI release ↗ Last confirmed 4 Sep 2026 Recent change Second independent verification 4 Sep 2026 against OpenAI docs: 1,050,000 context window, 128,000 max output, Apr 30 2026 knowledge cutoff, price $10 input / $50 output per MTok, text+image in and te…
Gemini 3.8 Flash	Google	Sep 2026	Multimodal	Proprietary	Low tier	API	Google announcement ↗
Context window 1M tokens Parameters Undisclosed Lifecycle Current Stated use Long-horizon software engineering, autonomous agents, and complex enterprise workflows Benchmarks (developer-reported) HLE-Verified 54.9% License terms Commercial API; Google terms Primary source Google announcement ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change GA 2 Sep 2026. ai.google.dev lists 1,048,576 in and 65,536 out, no cutoff. Bench corrected 3 Sep: DeepSWE 1.1 73.7% is on no vendor page; the announcement states HLE-Verified 54.9%. Security & safety Model card published for Gemini 3.8 Flash.
Claude Fable 5.1	Anthropic	Sep 2026	Text + Vision	Proprietary	High tier	API	Anthropic release ↗
Context window 1M tokens Parameters Undisclosed Knowledge cutoff Jun 2026 Lifecycle Current Stated use Demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work Benchmarks (developer-reported) CursorBench 3.2.0 73.4% · Terminal-Bench 4.0 55.8% · OSWorld 2.0 77.9% (partial) License terms Commercial API; Claude Mythos 5.1 shares its specs and pricing, by invitation only Primary source Anthropic release ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Announcement states Fable 5.1 is generally available and priced as Fable 5 was, $10/1M input and $50/1M output, with cache reads cut 75% to $0.25/1M Security & safety System card published for Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1; Anthropic states the benchmark scores were produced with production safeguards enabled.
Muse-Glimmer-30B	Meta	Aug 2026	Text + Vision	Open weights	Self-host	Open weights	Meta model card ↗
Context window 128K tokens Parameters ~29.6B Knowledge cutoff Jan 2026 Lifecycle Current Stated use Multimodal agentic model sized for local deployment Benchmarks (developer-reported) SWE-Bench Pro 51.2 · AIME 2026 94.7 · MCP Atlas 75.5 · Charxiv Reasoning 78.8 License terms Apache 2.0 covering the repository and the weights, per the model card. Primary source Meta model card ↗ Last confirmed 4 Sep 2026 Recent change Second verification 4 Sep 2026: the HF org meta-models is the verified "Meta Inc." account and the card credits Meta Superintelligence Lab, so the Meta attribution holds. Context corrected 131 to 128… Security & safety Open weights: you own the data boundary and the safety tuning. The repository ships no system card or safety evaluation beside the weights.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp	DeepSeek	Aug 2026	Multimodal	Open weights	Self-host	Open weights	DeepSeek model card ↗
Context window 1M tokens Parameters 305B Lifecycle Retired Stated use Experimental open-weights multimodal agent work across image and text inputs Benchmarks (developer-reported) Terminal Bench 2.1 83.9 · DeepSWE 59.3 · Cybergym 75.3 · Chartography 64.3 License terms MIT License covering the repository, per the model card. The card states no additional commercial restriction. Primary source DeepSeek model card ↗ Last confirmed 11 Sep 2026 Recent change DeepSeek release notes of 10 Sep 2026 state V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is retired and the API now routes deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp to V4.1-Flash. Weights stay public under MIT. Security & safety Weights public and ungated on Hugging Face across 48 safetensors shards, so self-hosting keeps data in your own boundary. The repository ships no system card or safety evaluation, and the card marks the model experimental.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	Alibaba	Aug 2026	Multimodal	Community	Self-host	Open weights	Qwen model card ↗
Context window 256K tokens Parameters 125B (6B active) Lifecycle Current Stated use Long-context agentic coding and computer use at 6B active parameters Benchmarks (developer-reported) GPQA Diamond 91.7 · SWE-bench Pro 62.5 · LiveCodeBench v6 91.9 · HLE 35.9 License terms Qwen Community License 1.0. Commercial use allowed; name display above 100M MAU or USD 20M monthly revenue; separate license for MaaS or AI assistants. Primary source Qwen model card ↗ Last confirmed 4 Sep 2026 Recent change Second verification 4 Sep 2026 from the cited repo: text_config.max_position_embeddings 262,144 confirms the 256K context; model_type is qwen4_exp and HF licenses it as other, matching the experiment… Security & safety Weights public and ungated on Hugging Face across 131 safetensors shards; self-host data boundary. Unlike the Qwen3.8-Max License on the 2.4T row, this one needs a separate Qwen license for Model-as-a-Service or AI Work Assistant use with no revenue floor.
Qwen3.8-27B	Alibaba	Aug 2026	Multimodal	Open weights	Self-host	Open weights	Qwen model card ↗
Context window 256K tokens Parameters 27B (dense) Lifecycle Current Stated use Agentic coding and computer use in a compact dense model Benchmarks (developer-reported) GPQA Diamond 89.2 · SWE-bench Pro 61.7 · Terminal Bench 2.1 73.0 · OSWorld-Verified 84.3 License terms Apache-2.0 Primary source Qwen model card ↗ Last confirmed 4 Sep 2026 Recent change Second verification 4 Sep 2026 from the cited repo: text_config.max_position_embeddings 262,144 confirms the 256K context, HF metadata gives license apache-2.0. Published. Security & safety Apache-2.0 weights, public and ungated on Hugging Face across 18 safetensors shards; self-host data boundary. The repo LICENSE is unmodified Apache-2.0 and adds no scale caps, MAU thresholds or revenue thresholds, unlike the Qwen3.8-Max License on the 2.4T row.
Gemini 3.7 Flash	Google	Aug 2026	Multimodal	Proprietary	Low tier	API	Google announcement ↗
Context window 1M tokens Parameters Undisclosed Lifecycle Superseded Stated use Complex coding, agentic workflows, and multi-step execution Benchmarks (developer-reported) FrontierCode 1.1 Main 43.6% · DeepSWE v1.1 65.3% · AutomationBench 30.4% License terms Commercial API; Google terms Primary source Google announcement ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Announced 13 Aug 2026. 1,048,576 in and 65,536 out, no cutoff. $0.75/$3.75 per M to 31 Dec 2026, then $1.50/$7.50. Superseded by Gemini 3.8 Flash 2 Sep 2026; re-confirmed 3 Sep, pricing unchanged.
Grok 4.6	xAI	Aug 2026	Text + Vision	Proprietary	Mid tierunconfirmed	API	xAI announcement ↗
Context window 500K tokens Parameters Undisclosed Knowledge cutoff Feb 2026 Lifecycle Current Stated use Coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work Benchmarks (developer-reported) CursorBench v3.2 69.9% · DeepSWE v1.1 65.9% · FrontierCode v1.1 61.3% License terms Commercial API Primary source xAI announcement ↗ Last confirmed 12 Aug 2026 Recent change x.ai announcement gives benchmark scores and states neither a context window nor a price, so both figures on this row come from outside the citation.
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B	Alibaba	Aug 2026	Text	Community	Self-host	Open weights	Qwen model card ↗
Context window 256K tokens Parameters 2.4T (95B active) Lifecycle Current Stated use Long-context reasoning and agentic coding Benchmarks (developer-reported) GPQA Diamond 92.6 · SWE-bench Pro 67.7 · Terminal Bench 2.1 86.6 · PaperBench 93.0 License terms Qwen3.8-Max License. Commercial use allowed; name display required above 100M MAU or $20M monthly revenue; separate license for MaaS above $50M/12 months. Primary source Qwen model card ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Cited repo config.json gives max_position_embeddings 262,144, confirming the 256K context Security & safety Full weights public and ungated on Hugging Face across 213 safetensors shards; self-host data boundary. The Qwen3.8-Max License requires a separate license from Qwen for Model-as-a-Service use above $50M revenue in 12 consecutive months.
DeepSeek-V4-Pro	DeepSeek	Aug 2026	Text	Open weights	Low tier	API + weights	DeepSeek model card ↗
Context window 1M tokens Parameters 1.65T (MoE) Lifecycle Deprecated Stated use Frontier-scale open-weights MoE with 1M context at low hosted-API prices Benchmarks (developer-reported) Terminal Bench 2.1 87.9% · DeepSWE 62.7% · Cybergym 83.3% License terms MIT License covering both the repository and the model weights, per the model card. Primary source DeepSeek model card ↗ Last confirmed 11 Sep 2026 Recent change DeepSeek release notes of 10 Sep 2026 say it is phasing out V4-Pro, with deepseek-v4-pro API requests routed to V4.1-Flash from 14 Sep 2026. Weights stay public under MIT. Security & safety MIT weights allow self-hosting for full data control; review the DeepSeek provider data policy before using the hosted API. The repository ships no system card or safety evaluation beside the weights.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash	DeepSeek	Jul 2026	Text	Open weights	Self-host	Open weights	DeepSeek model card ↗
Context window 1M tokens Parameters 304B (MoE) Lifecycle Retired Stated use Low-cost 1M-context open-weights MoE for agentic and long-context work Benchmarks (developer-reported) Terminal Bench 2.1 82.7% · DeepSWE 54.4% · Cybergym 76.7% License terms MIT License covering both the repository and the model weights, per the model card. Primary source DeepSeek model card ↗ Last confirmed 11 Sep 2026 Recent change DeepSeek release notes of 10 Sep 2026 state V4-Flash is retired and the API now routes deepseek-v4-flash to V4.1-Flash. Weights stay public under MIT on Hugging Face. Security & safety MIT weights allow self-hosting for full data control; review the DeepSeek provider data policy before using the hosted API. The repository ships no system card or safety evaluation beside the weights.
Grok 4.5	xAI	Jul 2026	Text + Vision	Proprietary	Mid tierunconfirmed	API	xAI announcement ↗
Context window 500K tokens Parameters Undisclosed Lifecycle Superseded Stated use Coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work Benchmarks (developer-reported) SWE Marathon pass@1 29.0% · Terminal Bench 2.1 83.3% · SWE-Bench Pro 64.7% License terms Commercial API Primary source xAI announcement ↗ Last confirmed 12 Aug 2026 Recent change x.ai announcement gives benchmark scores and states neither a context window nor a price, so both figures on this row come from outside the citation.
Claude Opus 5	Anthropic	Jul 2026	Text + Vision	Proprietary	High tier	API	Anthropic release ↗
Context window 1M tokens Parameters Undisclosed Knowledge cutoff May 2026 Lifecycle Current Stated use Complex agentic coding and enterprise work Benchmarks (developer-reported) SWE-bench Verified 96.0% · OSWorld 2.0 70.6% · DeepSWE v1.1 68.8% License terms Commercial API Primary source Anthropic release ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Added in release week; $5/$25 pricing, 1M context, May 2026 knowledge cutoff per the models overview. SWE-bench Verified figure appears in system card section 8.2 prose, not the summary table Security & safety System card published. Cyber classifiers allow source-code vulnerability discovery but block binary scanning, penetration testing, and exploit generation.
Kimi K3	Moonshot	Jul 2026	Multimodal	Community	Mid tier	API + weights	Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Beats Top U.S. AI Models in Blind Tests →
Context window 1M tokens Parameters 2.8T (104B active) Lifecycle Current Stated use Long-context reasoning, agentic coding Benchmarks (developer-reported) Terminal-Bench 2.1 88.3% · DeepSWE 67.5% · SWE Marathon 42.0% License terms Kimi K3 License: MIT-style grant with a Model-as-a-Service condition, plus a "Kimi K3" attribution requirement above 100M monthly active users or $20M monthly… Primary source Moonshot model card ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Weights published 13 Jun 2026; specs, licence tier and modality verified against the Moonshot model card. Security & safety Full weights published on Hugging Face under the Kimi K3 License. First-party Kimi API also live.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite	Google	Jul 2026	Multimodal	Proprietary	Low tier	API	Google model card ↗
Context window 1M tokens Parameters Undisclosed Knowledge cutoff Mar 2026 Lifecycle Current Stated use Cheapest, low-latency, high throughput Benchmarks (developer-reported) SWE-Bench Pro 54.2% · OSWorld-Verified 74.0% · Terminal-Bench 2.1 54.0% License terms Commercial API Primary source Google model card ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Current confirmed: Google lists Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite as Stable on the models page, and its deprecations row announces no shutdown date Security & safety Model card; safety evals.
Gemini 3.6 Flash	Google	Jul 2026	Multimodal	Proprietary	Low tier	API	Google model card ↗
Context window 1M tokens Parameters Undisclosed Knowledge cutoff Mar 2026 Lifecycle Superseded Stated use Fast workhorse, up to 17% fewer tokens Benchmarks (developer-reported) SWE-Bench Pro 58.7% · OSWorld-Verified 83.0% · Terminal-Bench 2.1 78.0% License terms Commercial API; Google terms Primary source Google model card ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Launch post prices 3.6 Flash at $1.50/1M input and $7.50/1M output Security & safety Model card and safety evals; enterprise data controls.
GPT-5.6 Sol	OpenAI	Jul 2026	Text + Vision	Proprietary	High tier	API	OpenAI Launches GPT 5.6 Sol With Powerful New AI Features →
Context window 1.1M tokens Parameters Undisclosed Knowledge cutoff Feb 2026 Lifecycle Current Stated use Flagship of the GPT-5.6 series (Sol/Terra/Luna) Benchmarks (developer-reported) SWE-Bench Pro 64.6% · GPQA Diamond 94.6% · Terminal-Bench 2.1 88.8% License terms Commercial API; OpenAI terms Primary source OpenAI release ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Model page states a 1,050,000 context window, 128,000 max output tokens and a 16 Feb 2026 knowledge cutoff Security & safety System card and preparedness framework; enterprise data controls.
Claude Sonnet 5	Anthropic	Jun 2026	Text + Vision	Proprietary	Mid tier	API	Anthropic release ↗
Context window 1M tokens Parameters Undisclosed Knowledge cutoff Jan 2026 Lifecycle Current Stated use Most agentic Sonnet; near-Opus at lower cost Benchmarks (developer-reported) SWE-bench Verified 85.2% · OSWorld-Verified 81.2% · Terminal-Bench 2.1 80.4% License terms Commercial API; Anthropic usage policy Primary source Anthropic release ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Upgrade to Sonnet 4.6; standard pricing 3/15, introductory 2/10 through Aug 31 2026. 1M context, 128K output. Released Jun 30 2026. Security & safety System card published; cyber safeguards enabled by default; enterprise data controls.
Claude Fable 5	Anthropic	Jun 2026	Text + Vision	Proprietary	High tier	API	Claude Fable 5 Ends Free Access For Pro Subscribers →
Context window 1M tokens Parameters Undisclosed Knowledge cutoff Jan 2026 Lifecycle Current Stated use Frontier intelligence for long-running agents License terms Commercial API; Mythos-class 30-day data retention, not used for training Primary source Anthropic release ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Security & safety System card published; enterprise data controls.
Claude Opus 4.8	Anthropic	May 2026	Text + Vision	Proprietary	High tier	API	Anthropic Unveils Claude Science to Transform Research →
Context window 1M tokens Parameters Undisclosed Knowledge cutoff Jan 2026 Lifecycle Superseded Stated use Frontier reasoning, long-horizon agents Benchmarks (developer-reported) SWE-bench Verified 88.6% · GPQA Diamond 93.6% · OSWorld-Verified 83.4% License terms Commercial API; Anthropic usage policy Primary source Anthropic model card ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Superseded by Claude Opus 5 (Jul 2026); remains available and priced at $5/$25 on the current models page Security & safety System card and Responsible Scaling Policy published; customer API data not used for training.
Gemini 3 Pro	Google	Nov 2025	Multimodal	Proprietary	—	API	Google, Gemini API deprecations ↗
Context window 1M tokens Parameters Undisclosed Lifecycle Retired Stated use Frontier multimodal reasoning with Deep Think Benchmarks (developer-reported) SWE-bench Verified 76.2% · GPQA Diamond 91.9% · Terminal-Bench 2.0 54.2% License terms Commercial API Primary source Google, Gemini API deprecations ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Retired confirmed against Google directly: the models page lists Gemini 3 Pro only under Previous models as (Shut down), and the deprecations table gives gemini-3-pro-preview a shutdown date of 9 Mar… Security & safety Model card and safety evals; enterprise data controls.
Claude Haiku 4.5	Anthropic	Oct 2025	Text + Vision	Proprietary	Low tier	API	Anthropic model card ↗
Context window 200K tokens Parameters Undisclosed Knowledge cutoff Feb 2025 Lifecycle Current Stated use Low-latency, cost-efficient Benchmarks (developer-reported) SWE-bench Verified 73.3% · GPQA Diamond 73.0% · AIME 2025 80.7% (no tools) License terms Commercial API Primary source Anthropic model card ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Security & safety System card; enterprise data controls.
Grok 2	xAI	Aug 2025	Text	Community	Self-host	Open weights	xAI (Hugging Face) ↗
Context window 128K tokens Parameters Undisclosed Lifecycle Superseded Stated use Open frontier-class weights Benchmarks (developer-reported) HumanEval 88.4% · GPQA 56.0% · MMLU-Pro 75.5% License terms Grok 2 Community License Agreement Primary source xAI (Hugging Face) ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Confirmed from the cited repo: config.json gives max_position_embeddings 131072 (128K) and the README licenses the weights under the Grok 2 Community License Agreement Security & safety Open weights under the Grok 2 Community License (restricted); deployer owns safety tuning.
GPT-5	OpenAI	Aug 2025	Text + Vision	Proprietary	Mid tier	API	OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Work With GPT-5.6 Agents →
Context window 400K tokens Parameters Undisclosed Knowledge cutoff Sep 2024 Lifecycle Deprecated Stated use Broad reasoning and tools Benchmarks (developer-reported) SWE-bench Verified 74.9% · AIME 2025 94.6% (no tools) · MMMU 84.2% License terms Commercial API Primary source OpenAI model card ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Superseded by GPT-5.6 (Jul 2026); OpenAI lists GPT-5 as prior-generation. Security & safety System card published.
Qwen3	Alibaba	Apr 2025	Text	Open weights	Self-host	Open weights	Alibaba model card ↗
Context window 128K tokens Parameters 0.6B-235B Lifecycle Superseded Stated use Broad open family, multilingual Benchmarks (developer-reported) LiveCodeBench 70.7% · AIME 2025 81.5% · BFCL v3 70.8% License terms Apache-2.0 Primary source Alibaba model card ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Alibaba current Model Studio API lists qwen3.7-max/plus and qwen3.6-flash; the open Apr-2025 variant qwen3-235b-a22b is not on the current first-party pricing page, so price kept free and access set… Security & safety Apache-2.0 weights; self-host data boundary.
Llama 4	Meta	Apr 2025	Text + Vision	Community	Self-host	Open weights	Meta model card ↗
Context window 1M tokens Parameters up to 400B (MoE) Lifecycle Current Stated use Open MoE, long context Benchmarks (developer-reported) LiveCodeBench 43.4% · GPQA Diamond 69.8% · MMLU-Pro 80.5% License terms Llama Community License (scale cap) Primary source Meta model card ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Meta operates no first-party inference API and points developers to third-party hosts, so access is weights-only. Represents Llama 4 Maverick (1M context, 17B active / 400B total, 128 experts, releas… Security & safety Open weights: you own the data boundary and the safety tuning. Scale-cap clause for very large deployments.
Gemma 3	Google	Mar 2025	Text + Vision	Community	Self-host	Open weights	Google model card ↗
Context window 128K tokens Parameters 1B-27B Lifecycle Superseded Stated use Efficient open family Benchmarks (developer-reported) LiveCodeBench 29.7% · GPQA Diamond 42.4% · MMLU-Pro 67.5% License terms Gemma terms of use (restricted) Primary source Google model card ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Open family (1B/4B/12B/27B); 4B/12B/27B support vision (text plus image). Built on Gemini 2.0 research. ShieldGemma 2 image safety checker built on Gemma 3. Security & safety Open weights under Gemma terms; self-host safety is your responsibility.
DeepSeek-R1	DeepSeek	Jan 2025	Text	Open weights	Low tier	API + weights	DeepSeek model card ↗
Context window 128K tokens Parameters 671B (MoE) Lifecycle Superseded Stated use Open reasoning model Benchmarks (developer-reported) SWE-bench Verified 49.2% · GPQA Diamond 71.5% · MMLU-Pro 84.0% License terms MIT Primary source DeepSeek model card ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Updated as R1-0528 (May 2025). Security & safety MIT weights; self-host data boundary. Reasoning traces can be verbose; review before logging.
Phi-4	Microsoft	Dec 2024	Text	Open weights	Self-host	Open weights	Microsoft model card ↗
Context window 16K tokens Parameters 14B Knowledge cutoff Jun 2024 Lifecycle Current Stated use Small-model reasoning Benchmarks (developer-reported) HumanEval 82.6% · GPQA 56.1% · MMLU 84.8% License terms MIT Primary source Microsoft model card ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Phi-4 family expanded in 2025 (Phi-4-mini, Phi-4-multimodal, Phi-4-reasoning). Security & safety MIT weights, small enough to run locally; a good fit where data cannot leave the device.
DeepSeek-V3	DeepSeek	Dec 2024	Text	Community	Low tier	API + weights	DeepSeek model card ↗
Context window 128K tokens Parameters 671B (MoE) Lifecycle Superseded Stated use Efficient open MoE, low-cost API Benchmarks (developer-reported) SWE-bench Verified 42.0% · GPQA Diamond 59.1% · MMLU-Pro 75.9% License terms DeepSeek Model License (code is MIT; weights carry use restrictions) Primary source DeepSeek model card ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change License corrected: V3 weights ship under the DeepSeek Model License, not MIT — MIT covers only the code repository (R3 audit, Jul 2026) Security & safety MIT weights plus low-cost hosted API. Self-host for data control; review provider data policy if using the API.
Command R+	Cohere	Aug 2024	Text	Community	Mid tier	API + weights	Cohere model card ↗
Context window 128K tokens Parameters 104B Lifecycle Superseded Stated use RAG and tool use License terms CC-BY-NC (non-commercial) Primary source Cohere model card ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Command R+ 08-2024 (current version), a refresh of the original Apr 2024 release; 128K context, CC-BY-NC weights plus paid Cohere API. Superseded by Command A (Mar 2025) and Command A Reasoning. Security & safety Weights non-commercial (CC-BY-NC); enterprise license required to ship commercially.
Mistral Large 2	Mistral	Jul 2024	Text	Community	Self-host	Open weights	Mistral model card ↗
Context window 128K tokens Parameters 123B Lifecycle Retired Stated use Strong European frontier Benchmarks (developer-reported) MMLU 84.0% (pretrained) License terms Mistral Research License (non-commercial); commercial license to self-deploy Primary source Mistral model card ↗ Last confirmed 3 Sep 2026 Recent change Mistral retired mistral-large-2407 on 30 Mar 2025 and names Mistral Large 3 as the replacement; the card states access has ended, so the row moves from Superseded to Retired Security & safety EU-based provider; commercial license with enterprise data terms.

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5 most recent of 16 logged updates

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on 10 Sep 2026 and retired V4-Flash and V4-Flash-Vision-Exp from its API, so both rows move to Retired with weights-only access. V4-Pro moves to Deprecated as DeepSeek phases it out. Source: api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260910 10 Sep 2026
Added GPT-6 Astra as a draft. OpenAI docs give 1,050,000 context, 128,000 max output, Apr 30 2026 cutoff, $10 in / $1 cached / $50 out per MTok. Trusted Access Program enterprises only at launch, not GA, so it stays a draft. No benchmarks on any reachable primary page. 3 Sep 2026
Gemini 3.8 Flash bench corrected: the DeepSWE 1.1 73.7% figure appears on no Google page, replaced with HLE-Verified 54.9% from the 2 Sep announcement. Gemini 3.7 Flash re-confirmed superseded. Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber staged as a draft, limited access via the Fairwind Program, not GA. 2 Sep 2026
Gemini 3.8 Flash added (GA 2 Sep, gemini-3.8-flash): 1M input context, text/image/video/audio/PDF in, 0.75 and 3.75 dollars per million through 2026, DeepSWE 1.1 73.7 percent. Gemini 3.7 Flash marked superseded. Read from the Google model and pricing pages. 2 Sep 2026
Added Claude Fable 5.1, published: Anthropic announced it 1 Sep 2026 at 10/50 dollars per million tokens, 1M context, Jun 2026 cutoff. Mythos 5.1 shares the row. Also staged Muse-Glimmer-30B as a draft, Meta open weights on Hugging Face since 9 Aug 2026. 1 Sep 2026

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