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.
Latest week: 12 models · 2026-06-22
Active labs
Labs that shipped at least one new model.
Most active: Microsoft AI (7 models)
Price cuts
Provider listings now cheaper than the last snapshot.
Claude Opus 4.6 on OpenRouter: Input $30 to $5
Benchmark moves
Benchmark scores that changed in the last 30 days.
Latest change: 2026-06-26
Latest week — Week of June 22, 2026
- GPT-5.6 Sol2026-06-26
- GPT-5.6 Terra2026-06-26
- GPT-5.6 Luna2026-06-26
- Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B2026-06-25
- Ornith-1.0 9B2026-06-25
- Ornith-1.0 35B2026-06-25
- Ornith-1.0 397B2026-06-25
- LFM2.5 230M2026-06-25
- Seed 2.1 Pro2026-06-24
- Seed 2.1 Turbo2026-06-24
- Fugu2026-06-22
- Fugu Ultra2026-06-22
Monthly lens: June 2026
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.
Latest: AIRouter
Pricing watch
Active routers that add fee, subscription, OSS, or quote-based pricing policy.
Review first: AIRouter
Router catalogs
Routers with a verified reachable-model count.
Largest: Portkey (1,600 models)
Deprecations
Router entries that remain visible but should not be treated as default picks.
Watch: NVIDIA LLM Router Blueprint
Browse the full routers and gateways directory.
Frontier pricing
One flagship model per lab, as of 2026-06-24. Price cuts card compares against the 2026-05-16 snapshot.
| Lab / model | Output $/1M |
|---|---|
| $0.26 | |
| $0.50 | |
| $0.50 | |
| $0.60 | |
| $0.87 | |
| $1.20 | |
| $1.95 | |
| $2.50 | |
| $2.65 | |
| $4.00 | |
| $4.40 | |
| $6.00 | |
| $6.00 | |
| $7.50 | |
| $8.00 | |
| $9.00 | |
| $17.50 | |
| $25.00 | |
| $30.00 |