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AI Model Reference Guide
A regularly updated reference covering the most relevant large language models from the major AI providers. Use this guide to quickly compare capabilities, pricing, and use cases when evaluating AI models.
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Data sourced from official provider documentation and OpenRouter.ai. Pricing reflects list rates as of the last update date. Always verify with the provider before making purchasing decisions.
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Top picks across common use-case categories.
Last Reviewed: August 10, 2026
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Llama 5 (5M trained) · Gemini 3.1 Pro (2M extended) · Gemini 3.5 Pro (2M, limited preview) > Claude Opus 4.8 & Claude Opus 4.7 & GPT-5.5 (1M) > Llama 4 Scout (328K via API; 10M trained) > Claude Sonnet 4.6 (200K) > Claude Opus 4.7-fast (128K) > Claude Haiku 4.5 (200K)
Best for coding / SWE
Claude Fable 5 (80.3% SWE-Bench Pro) · Claude Opus 5 (near-Fable-5 on CursorBench 3.2) · Claude Opus 4.8:thinking (69.2%) · Claude Sonnet 5 (63.2%) · GPT-5.5 · o3-pro / o4-mini
Best overall value (frontier)
Claude Sonnet 5 ($2/$10 intro through Aug 2026) · Gemini 3.1 Pro ($2/$12) · Claude Sonnet 4.6 ($3/$15) · Claude Opus 5 ($5/$25, near-Fable-5 intelligence)
Best budget / high-volume
Llama 4 Scout ($0.08/$0.30) · Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite ($0.25/$0.50) · Claude Haiku 4.5 ($1/$5)
Best multimodal (text + image + video + audio)
Gemini 3.1 Pro (only model natively supporting all four) · GPT-5.4 (text + image + computer use)
Best deep reasoning / math / science
Claude Opus 5 (leads Frontier-Bench v0.1) · Claude Opus 4.8:thinking · o3-pro · Gemini 3.1 Pro (ARC-AGI-2 77.1%) · o4-mini · o1-pro · Claude Opus 4.8-fast:thinking
Best safety & instruction following
Claude Opus 4.7 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Constitutional AI; strongest instruction adherence) · Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Best open-source / self-hostable
Llama 5 (frontier-class, 600B+ open-weights) · Gemma 4 31B (Apache 2.0) · Llama 4 Scout (budget) · Phi-4 / Phi-4-mini (edge & on-device)
Best for M365 / enterprise ecosystem
Microsoft 365 Copilot (deep M365 integration with Microsoft Graph grounding)
Best computer use / desktop agents
Claude Opus 4.8 (84% Online-Mind2Web, strongest computer-use benchmark) · Claude Sonnet 4.6 (94% on insurance benchmarks) · GPT-5.5 · Claude Opus 4.8-fast (lower-latency agent deployment)