Models

DeepSeek's low-cost V4 API route for 1M-context production assistants, agents, and compatibility migrations.

DeepSeek's stronger V4 route for million-token reasoning, agentic coding, and higher-end open-weight workloads.

Mistral's open-weight coding model built for agentic software work and terminal-first execution.

Zhipu's GLM long-context model with strong coding ability and open-weight plus API access.

Z.ai's GLM-5.1, a 744B-parameter MoE open-weight model with strong autonomous coding and tool-use behavior.

Original GPT-5 release entry, now superseded by newer GPT-5.3 and GPT-5.4 generation variants.

Cost-efficient GPT-5 variant for high-volume production workflows needing strong reasoning at lower cost.

Ultra-low-cost GPT-5 tier for high-throughput automation and lightweight reasoning tasks.

Earlier GPT-5 Codex release entry kept as a historical baseline in OpenAI's Codex model lineage.

Current GPT-5 family flagship in OpenAI's API guide for coding, agentic, and general professional work.

Current GPT-5.2 coding model for long-horizon software engineering and agentic repository work.

Current premium GPT-5.2 tier for higher-precision API work when standard GPT-5.2 is not enough.

Current GPT-5.3 Instant / Chat route for everyday ChatGPT work and API chat-style testing.

Specialized GPT-5.3 Codex model for long-horizon agentic software engineering.

API-ready GPT-5 premium model for difficult professional work, tool use, and computer-assisted tasks.

OpenAI's strongest mini model for coding, computer use, and fast high-volume agent workloads.

OpenAI's cheapest GPT-5.4 route for fast classification, extraction, and lightweight coding subagents.

API-ready premium GPT-5 escalation tier for decision-ready analysis and demanding professional workflows.

OpenAI's newest GPT-5.5 route for agentic coding, professional work, research, and computer-use tasks.

Premium GPT-5.5 route for the hardest ChatGPT reasoning, research, and professional workflows.

OpenAI's life-sciences research preview model for biology, drug discovery, and tool-heavy scientific workflows.

xAI's 2M-context preview lane for enterprise research and multi-agent experiments, while Grok 4.3 remains the default API caller.

Moonshot's Kimi K2.5 is an open-weight long-context model focused on agentic reasoning and tool use.

MiniMax's M2.5, a fast and inexpensive proprietary model for agentic coding, tool use, and high-volume production.

MiniMax's M2.7 agentic productivity model for coding, office workflows, tool use, and low-cost long-context execution.

MiniMax's still-active M-series model for coding, tool use, and office-style agent workflows.

Mistral's open 24B model balancing strong instruction quality with low API cost for production assistants.

Mistral's new open-weight small model for efficient long-context assistants and coding support.

Still-available OpenAI reasoning model for difficult analysis, retained as a legacy reference after GPT-5 became the default recommendation.

OpenAI's highest-capability deep research model for long, source-heavy investigations over web and private data.

Cost-efficient OpenAI reasoning model retained as a legacy API reference after GPT-5 mini became the newer default direction.

Lower-cost OpenAI deep research model for source-heavy investigations when throughput and budget matter.

OpenAI's Apache 2.0 open-weight model for local PII detection and redaction workflows.

Alibaba's flagship Qwen 3.6 Max Preview, a sparse MoE model for agentic coding, tool use, and long-context reasoning.

Alibaba's top Qwen API model for high-end multilingual reasoning, coding, and enterprise assistant workloads.

Alibaba's Qwen3.5 generation extends the Qwen line with stronger open-weight reasoning and coding performance.

Fast and efficient Claude tier for latency-sensitive assistant and automation workloads.

Anthropic's gated research-preview frontier model for defensive cybersecurity, autonomous coding, and long-running agents.

Superseded Claude 4.6 snapshot for high-difficulty reasoning, coding, and long-running agent workflows.

Anthropic's April 2026 premium Claude model, now superseded by Opus 4.8 but still useful for pinned deployments.

Anthropic's May 2026 premium Claude model for long-horizon agentic coding, complex reasoning, and high-autonomy work.

Balanced Claude tier for production reasoning, coding, and long-context assistant workflows.

Anthropic's balanced Claude model — strong reasoning and coding at moderate pricing, the default recommendation for most tasks.

Google's preview computer-use model surface for browser and interface control workflows.

Stable Gemini 2.5 Flash route balancing multimodal capability, latency, and production cost.

Google's stable 2.5-era native-audio Live API model for realtime multimodal voice agents.

Stable budget Gemini 2.5 tier for large-scale assistant and automation workloads.

Stable high-capability Gemini 2.5 tier for long-context multimodal reasoning and enterprise workflows.

Google's older Gemini 3 preview Flash route, now superseded by stable Gemini 3.5 Flash for most new fast-model work.

Google's low-latency Gemini 3.1 live model for realtime audio-to-audio and multimodal dialogue.

Google's newer low-cost Gemini preview tier for high-throughput multimodal assistant and automation workloads.

Google's current premium Gemini 3.1 preview model for multimodal reasoning, coding, long-context analysis, and agentic workflows.

Google's stable Gemini 3.5 Flash model for fast frontier multimodal, coding, and long-horizon agent workflows.

Google DeepMind's robotics-tuned Gemini for embodied reasoning, spatial planning, and physical agent tasks.

Long-context multimodal model retained as a legacy reference after retirement from ChatGPT defaults.

Widely deployed multimodal model kept as a legacy reference after retirement from ChatGPT defaults.

Lower-cost GPT-4o API tier for high-volume text-plus-image assistant and automation workloads.

xAI's recommended primary Grok caller and post-retirement redirect target for reasoning, non-reasoning, coding, and long-context agent work.

Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6, a 1T-parameter MoE open-weight model for long-horizon coding and agentic workflows.

Meta's larger open-weight Llama 4 MoE model for multimodal assistants and controlled deployments.

Meta's efficiency-focused Llama 4 MoE model with a headline 10M-token context window.

Mistral's flagship open-weight European multimodal model with long context and competitive enterprise API economics.

Mistral's dense 128B Medium 3.5, a frontier-class multimodal model unifying chat, reasoning, and coding behavior.

Meta's first Muse-family model for Meta AI, combining multimodal reasoning, tool use, and parallel-agent test-time thinking.

Alibaba's open-weight 27B Qwen 3.6 model for agentic coding, vision-language work, and self-hosted deployment.

OpenAI's previous premium GPT Image tier for higher-fidelity generation and iterative editing workflows.

OpenAI's current state-of-the-art GPT Image model behind ChatGPT Images 2.0 and API image generation.

OpenAI image generation model for prompt-driven creation and iterative editing workflows.

Lower-cost GPT Image tier for product teams that need image generation at higher volume.

xAI's standard Grok Imagine image model for API image generation and editing workflows.

Older Grok Imagine image-generation model ID retained as a legacy reference for pre-refresh integrations.

xAI's Grok Imagine Quality Mode image model for higher-realism, stronger text rendering, and brand-controlled visuals.

Google's current Imagen 4 image generation tier for API-backed visual creation and design workflows.

Google's lower-latency Imagen 4 tier for faster image generation in Gemini API workflows.

Google's latest fast image-generation release combining higher fidelity, stronger reasoning, and Flash-speed iteration.

Google's Gemini 3 Pro Image preview model for professional visual assets, grounded image generation, and high-fidelity text rendering.

Google's first Gemini Omni model for multimodal video creation and conversational video editing.

xAI's Grok Imagine video model for text-to-video, image-to-video, video editing, and short creative clips.

Older Grok Imagine video-generation model ID retained as a legacy reference for pre-refresh integrations.

OpenAI's current Sora generation for cinematic text/image-to-video creation in product and API workflows.

OpenAI's premium Sora tier for higher-fidelity synced-audio video generation and tougher creative shots.

Google's current Veo video generation model used in Flow and related creative AI workflows.

Google's latest Veo preview tier for higher-end video generation with native audio and stronger reference control.

ElevenLabs' generally available expressive text-to-speech model for premium voice and dialogue output.

Google's 2.5 Pro TTS preview tier for natural, steerable one-way speech generation.

Google's expressive Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS preview, an API-first text-to-speech model spanning 70+ languages.

Lower-cost OpenAI speech-to-text tier for high-volume transcription pipelines.

OpenAI text-to-speech model for responsive, API-first voice output workflows.

OpenAI speech-to-text model tier for production transcription and voice pipeline workflows.

OpenAI's earlier realtime voice model for audio-in, audio-out agents, now superseded by GPT-Realtime-2 for new flagship voice work.

OpenAI's GPT-5-class realtime voice model for reasoning, tool-using speech agents, and live support workflows.

OpenAI's realtime speech-to-speech translation model for live multilingual audio experiences.

OpenAI's streaming speech-to-text model for low-latency realtime transcription.

Earlier Google music generation route retained as reference while newer Lyria 3 surfaces take the spotlight.

Google's first multimodal Gemini embedding model, mapping text, images, audio, video, and PDFs into a unified vector space.