models.json

{
  "_comment": "Benchmark + pricing snapshot for the evaluation set. Pricing drives scripts/cost_calc.py (reproducible cost tables). Benchmarks are dated public figures; null = not published by the source at review time (never interpolated). Prices USD per 1M tokens. Benchmark sourcing convention (since 2026-07-28): aa_index = Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 scale (rebased 2026-06-15, ~5 pts lower than v4.0 — never compare across scales); gpqa_diamond + hle = AA independent runs; swe_bench_verified + swe_bench_pro = BenchLM boards (independent; a model absent from the board is null even if a vendor card claims a score); arena_elo = arena.ai text/overall style-control board.",
  "as_of": "2026-09-14",
  "sources": {
    "benchmarks": "Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 (artificialanalysis.ai/models) · Arena (arena.ai/leaderboard) · BenchLM SWE-bench Verified/Pro (benchlm.ai, boards dated 2026-07-27) · AA independent GPQA-Diamond/HLE runs — all extracted 2026-07-28",
    "pricing": "Official provider pricing pages only; all 16 headline prices re-verified 2026-07-28 (12/13 pre-existing entries matched exactly; the exception was the retired Grok 4 — see the Grok 4.5 entry). Aggregator conflicts resolved in favor of the official page. Re-checked 2026-08-12 against OpenAI's pricing page after the 2026-07-30 GPT-5.6 price cut; Terra ($2/$12) and Luna ($0.20/$1.20) added as separate rows. Re-reviewed 2026-09-14: pre-existing rows unchanged against their official pages; added Claude Fable 5.1 ($10/$50, Anthropic tier price, corroborated by a live at-list gateway catalog) and GPT-6 Astra ($10/$50 — third-party trackers only, openai.com blocks automated fetches, labelled as such in the row's notes)."
  },
  "openrouter_model_count": {
    "_comment": "Single source of truth for every 'OpenRouter has N models' mention; rendered into <!--omc-->...<!--/omc--> spans by scripts/update_readme.py as ~(count rounded to the nearest 10).",
    "count": 341,
    "source": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (live API list; OpenRouter's homepage markets '400+ Models')",
    "as_of": "2026-07-28"
  },
  "models": [
    {
      "name": "GPT-6 Astra",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": null,
        "gpqa_diamond": null,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": null,
        "hle": null,
        "arena_elo": null,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 10.0,
        "output": 50.0,
        "cached_input": 1.0
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "Released 2026-09-03 (staged rollout). First model OpenAI classifies at the Critical cybersecurity threshold under its Preparedness Framework; external deployment carries misalignment monitoring on all tool-using inference. Price is third-party-corroborated only — openai.com blocks automated fetches, so $10/$50 comes from multiple independent trackers rather than the official pricing page; treat as unverified-official. Long context (>272K input) is reported at $20/$75. Benchmarks not yet recorded here."
    },
    {
      "name": "Claude Fable 5.1",
      "provider": "Anthropic",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": null,
        "gpqa_diamond": null,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": null,
        "hle": null,
        "arena_elo": null,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 10.0,
        "output": 50.0,
        "cached_input": 1.0
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "Released 2026-09-01. Same price as Claude Fable 5 ($10/$50); 1M context, 128K max output. Thinking is always on and the raw chain of thought is never returned. Corroborated against a gateway billing at provider list price (aigateway.sh live catalog, 2026-09-14)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Claude Opus 5",
      "provider": "Anthropic",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 60.7,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.932,
        "swe_bench_verified": 0.96,
        "swe_bench_pro": 0.792,
        "hle": 0.526,
        "arena_elo": 1495,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 5.0,
        "output": 25.0,
        "cached_input": 0.5
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "Released 2026-07-24. AA v4.1 #1 (max config) and SWE-bench Verified leader (96.0). Arena Elo still settling (~2.4K votes, +/-12). Same list price as Opus 4.8."
    },
    {
      "name": "Claude Fable 5",
      "provider": "Anthropic",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 59.9,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.926,
        "swe_bench_verified": 0.95,
        "swe_bench_pro": 0.8,
        "hle": 0.533,
        "arena_elo": 1508,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 10.0,
        "output": 50.0,
        "cached_input": 1.0
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": false,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "Arena #1 (1508+/-6, 16K votes — settled) and HLE leader. AA lists it in an adaptive-reasoning config with Opus 4.8 fallback. SWE-bench Pro 80.0 — the 80.3 figure previously here belongs to Claude Mythos 5 (limited availability)."
    },
    {
      "name": "GPT-5.6 Sol",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 58.9,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.941,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": 0.646,
        "hle": 0.472,
        "arena_elo": 1485,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 5.0,
        "output": 30.0,
        "cached_input": 0.5
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "Released 2026-07-09; OpenAI's current flagship. Sol's own list price is unchanged (same as GPT-5.5), but on 2026-07-30 OpenAI cut the rest of the family: Terra $2.50/$15 -> $2/$12 and Luna $1/$6 -> $0.20/$1.20 — both now priced separately below. AA score is the max-effort config."
    },
    {
      "name": "GPT-5.6 Terra",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": null,
        "gpqa_diamond": null,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": null,
        "hle": null,
        "arena_elo": null,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 2.0,
        "output": 12.0,
        "cached_input": 0.2
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": false,
      "notes": "Mid tier of the GPT-5.6 family. Cut 20% on 2026-07-30 (was $2.50/$15). No independently published benchmark scores yet, so it is priced here but absent from the benchmark table."
    },
    {
      "name": "GPT-5.6 Luna",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": null,
        "gpqa_diamond": null,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": null,
        "hle": null,
        "arena_elo": null,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 0.2,
        "output": 1.2,
        "cached_input": 0.02
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": false,
      "notes": "Cheapest tier of the GPT-5.6 family, cut 80% on 2026-07-30 (was $1/$6) — a frontier-family model at budget-tier pricing, which resets the cheap end of routing maths. No independently published benchmark scores yet, so it is priced here but absent from the benchmark table."
    },
    {
      "name": "Kimi K3",
      "provider": "Moonshot",
      "open": true,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 57.1,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.935,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": null,
        "hle": 0.444,
        "arena_elo": 1486,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 3.0,
        "output": 15.0,
        "cached_input": 0.3
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "New top open-weights model on AA v4.1 (takes the crown from GLM-5.2/K2.6); weights on HF 2026-07-27. Arena Elo still settling (~3.6K votes). Flagship-tier price for an open model."
    },
    {
      "name": "Claude Opus 4.8",
      "provider": "Anthropic",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 55.7,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.92,
        "swe_bench_verified": 0.886,
        "swe_bench_pro": 0.692,
        "hle": 0.457,
        "arena_elo": 1484,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 5.0,
        "output": 25.0,
        "cached_input": 0.5
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "Now docs-listed under 'Legacy models' (still Active; retirement floor 2027-05-28). Superseded by Opus 5 at the same price."
    },
    {
      "name": "GPT-5.5",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 54.8,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.935,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": 0.586,
        "hle": 0.443,
        "arena_elo": 1482,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 5.0,
        "output": 30.0,
        "cached_input": 0.5
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "Unified agentic/reasoning model; emits hidden thinking tokens billed as output. Long-context tier above 272K input bills $10/$45. 1M-token context via the API (the 400K figure is the Codex cap only). AA score is the xhigh config."
    },
    {
      "name": "Grok 4.5",
      "provider": "xAI",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 500000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 53.8,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.931,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": 0.647,
        "hle": 0.403,
        "arena_elo": 1468,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 2.0,
        "output": 6.0,
        "cached_input": 0.3
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "Current xAI flagship (released 2026-07-08); represents the Grok line in the cost set. Price doubles above 200K context. Replaces the retired Grok 4 (grok-4-0709, retired 2026-05-15, was $3/$15)."
    },
    {
      "name": "GLM-5.2",
      "provider": "Z.ai (Zhipu)",
      "open": true,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 51.1,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.895,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": 0.621,
        "hle": 0.401,
        "arena_elo": 1469,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 1.4,
        "output": 4.4,
        "cached_input": 0.26
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "MIT-licensed 744B MoE (40B active), open-weighted 2026-06-16; was the open-weights AA leader until Kimi K3. Same list price as GLM-5.1, which it supersedes in the cost set."
    },
    {
      "name": "Muse Spark 1.1",
      "provider": "Meta (Superintelligence Labs)",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 262000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 50.6,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.898,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": 0.615,
        "hle": 0.451,
        "arena_elo": 1491,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": false,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "Closed-source frontier model from Meta Superintelligence Labs (released 2026-07-10; the original Muse Spark scores 43.1 on AA v4.1). Arena #8. No official API pricing published — excluded from cost tables."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gemini 3.5 Flash",
      "provider": "Google",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 50.2,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.922,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": 0.551,
        "hle": 0.41,
        "arena_elo": 1476,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 1.5,
        "output": 9.0,
        "cached_input": 0.15
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": false,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "Cost-tier Gemini; no long-context surcharge. Superseded in the cost set by Gemini 3.6 Flash (same input price, cheaper output). AA score is the high-reasoning config."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gemini 3.6 Flash",
      "provider": "Google",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 50.1,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.928,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": null,
        "hle": 0.383,
        "arena_elo": 1482,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 1.5,
        "output": 7.5,
        "cached_input": 0.15
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "GA 2026-07-21; matches 3.5 Flash intelligence at a cheaper output rate ($7.50 vs $9). Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite ($0.30/$2.50) is the new floor of the family."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gemini 3.1 Pro",
      "provider": "Google",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 46.5,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.941,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": null,
        "hle": 0.447,
        "arena_elo": 1486,
        "aime": 0.982,
        "aime_year": 2026,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 2.0,
        "output": 12.0,
        "cached_input": 0.2
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "Price doubles above 200k context ($4/$18). Arena #10 (86K votes); still 'Preview' status in Google's docs. Absent from the BenchLM SWE boards at review time."
    },
    {
      "name": "Qwen3.7 Max",
      "provider": "Alibaba",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 46.0,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.923,
        "swe_bench_verified": 0.804,
        "swe_bench_pro": 0.606,
        "hle": 0.381,
        "arena_elo": 1475,
        "aime": 0.75,
        "aime_year": 2025,
        "mmlu_pro": 0.838
      },
      "reasoning": false,
      "scenario_cost": false,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "DashScope USD pricing RMB-derived and promo-heavy — excluded from cost tables to avoid stale FX. BenchLM flags its SWE rows lower-confidence."
    },
    {
      "name": "DeepSeek V4 Pro",
      "provider": "DeepSeek",
      "open": true,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 44.3,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.888,
        "swe_bench_verified": 0.806,
        "swe_bench_pro": 0.554,
        "hle": 0.359,
        "arena_elo": 1457,
        "aime": 0.893,
        "aime_year": 2025,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 0.435,
        "output": 0.87,
        "cached_input": 0.003625
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": false,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "MIT-licensed open weights. AA/BenchLM figures are the Max-effort variant (base = 73.6/52.1 on SWE V/Pro). AIME figure is the V3.2 baseline; V4-Pro-specific reproduction pending."
    },
    {
      "name": "Kimi K2.6",
      "provider": "Moonshot",
      "open": true,
      "context_tokens": 256000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 44.2,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.911,
        "swe_bench_verified": 0.802,
        "swe_bench_pro": 0.586,
        "hle": 0.359,
        "arena_elo": 1461,
        "aime": 0.964,
        "aime_year": 2026,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 0.95,
        "output": 4.0,
        "cached_input": 0.16
      },
      "reasoning": false,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "Coding/agentic value pick — ~80% SWE-bench Verified at a fraction of flagship price. No longer the open-weights AA leader (Kimi K3 is). Moonshot legacy V1 platform sunsets 2026-08-31."
    },
    {
      "name": "GLM-5.1",
      "provider": "Z.ai (Zhipu)",
      "open": true,
      "context_tokens": 200000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 40.2,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.868,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": 0.584,
        "hle": 0.28,
        "arena_elo": 1469,
        "aime": 0.953,
        "aime_year": 2026,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 1.4,
        "output": 4.4,
        "cached_input": 0.26
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": false,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "First Chinese model to top SWE-bench Pro (58.4, self-reported at launch; BenchLM independent = 58.4 confirmed). Superseded by GLM-5.2 at the same price."
    },
    {
      "name": "Grok 4.3",
      "provider": "xAI",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 37.6,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.901,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": null,
        "hle": 0.35,
        "arena_elo": 1443,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 1.25,
        "output": 2.5,
        "cached_input": 0.2
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": false,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "AA v4.1 independent figures replace the earlier Grok-4 extrapolations. Price doubles above 200K context; retired Grok 4 slugs are served by grok-4.3 and billed at these rates. Grok 4.5 represents xAI in the cost set."
    },
    {
      "name": "Claude Haiku 4.5",
      "provider": "Anthropic",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 200000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 29.6,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.672,
        "swe_bench_verified": 0.733,
        "swe_bench_pro": null,
        "hle": 0.097,
        "arena_elo": 1412,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": null
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 1.0,
        "output": 5.0,
        "cached_input": 0.1
      },
      "reasoning": false,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "Cheapest Claude; strong SWE-bench for its tier."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mistral Large 3",
      "provider": "Mistral",
      "open": true,
      "context_tokens": 256000,
      "benchmarks": {
        "aa_index": 15.9,
        "gpqa_diamond": 0.68,
        "swe_bench_verified": null,
        "swe_bench_pro": null,
        "hle": 0.041,
        "arena_elo": 1415,
        "aime": null,
        "mmlu_pro": 0.807
      },
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 0.5,
        "output": 1.5,
        "cached_input": null
      },
      "reasoning": false,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": true,
      "notes": "European open-weights MoE; value pick. 'Large 3' = $0.50/$1.50 (legacy Large was $2/$6). Official page states cached input is '-90%' without publishing a per-MTok figure."
    },
    {
      "name": "GPT-5.4 nano",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "open": false,
      "context_tokens": 400000,
      "benchmarks": {},
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 0.2,
        "output": 1.25,
        "cached_input": 0.02
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": false,
      "notes": "Cheapest OpenAI reasoning tier; cost-table representative. Official cached price $0.02 (aggregators claiming $0.005 are wrong)."
    },
    {
      "name": "DeepSeek V4-Flash",
      "provider": "DeepSeek",
      "open": true,
      "context_tokens": 1000000,
      "benchmarks": {},
      "pricing_usd_per_mtok": {
        "input": 0.14,
        "output": 0.28,
        "cached_input": 0.0028
      },
      "reasoning": true,
      "scenario_cost": true,
      "benchmark_table": false,
      "notes": "Cost floor across every scenario. Cache reads ~98% off. Legacy deepseek-chat/deepseek-reasoner aliases were discontinued 2026-07-24."
    }
  ]
}