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The LLM market, this week

Weekly market signal across new model releases, price cuts, benchmark moves, API endpoint launches, and head-to-head comparisons — GPT, Claude, Gemini, and the open-source frontier.

Rolling 30-day window. Full archive in Changelog.

Launches

New chat models released in the last 30 days.

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Active labs

Labs that shipped at least one new model.

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Price cuts

Provider listings now cheaper than the last snapshot.

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Benchmark moves

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Benchmark scores that changed in the last 30 days.

Latest change: 2026-07-16

Release cadence

Chat models per calendar month, most recent first.

Routers

Router and gateway signals from the verified routing-layer seed: new or rechecked entries, pricing-policy watch rows, published model-count coverage, and deprecations.

New / rechecked

Routers checked in the last 30 days.

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Pricing watch

Active routers that add fee, subscription, OSS, or quote-based pricing policy.

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Router catalogs

Routers with a verified reachable-model count.

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Deprecations

Router entries that remain visible but should not be treated as default picks.

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Browse the full routers and gateways directory.

Frontier flagship pricing

The current flagship model from each major lab, with its public API token price. Selection and pricing update automatically as labs ship new flagships and adjust prices — roster last verified 2026-06-29. Price cuts card compares against the stale snapshot snapshot.Input stale · Last successful: 2026-05-16

Lab / modelInput $/1MOutput $/1M
$0.07$0.26
$0.13$0.50
$0.15$0.60
$0.43$0.87

MiniMax

MiniMax M3

Released 2026-06-01

$0.30$1.20
$0.50$2.20

xAI

Grok 4.3

Released 2026-05-06

$1.25$2.50

Baidu

ERNIE 5.1

Released 2026-05-09

$0.59$2.65

Alibaba / Qwen

Qwen3.7-Max

Released 2026-05-19

$1.25$3.75

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2.6

Released 2026-04-20

$0.95$4.00

Zhipu / Z.ai

GLM-5.2

Released 2026-06-13

$1.40$4.40
$0.60$6.00
$1.50$7.50
$2.00$8.00

Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.8

Released 2026-05-28

$5.00$25.00

OpenAI

GPT-5.6 Sol

Released 2026-07-09

$5.00$30.00

Google DeepMind

Gemini 3.5 Pro

Released 2026-05-19