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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

55

New chat models released in the last 30 days.

Latest week: 12 models · 2026-06-22

Active labs

24

Labs that shipped at least one new model.

Most active: Microsoft AI (7 models)

Price cuts

19

Provider listings now cheaper than the last snapshot.

Claude Opus 4.6 on OpenRouter: Input $30 to $5

Benchmark moves

452

Benchmark scores that changed in the last 30 days.

Latest change: 2026-06-26

Latest week — Week of June 22, 2026

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

17

Routers checked in the last 30 days.

Latest: AIRouter

Pricing watch

13

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

Review first: AIRouter

Router catalogs

5

Routers with a verified reachable-model count.

Largest: Portkey (1,600 models)

Deprecations

1

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 / modelOutput $/1M
$0.26
$0.50
$0.50

Meta

Llama 4 Maverick
$0.60
$0.87
$1.20

Alibaba / Qwen

Qwen3.6 Plus
$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