--- title: Frontier Model Comparison | The Agentic AI Hub — daily.dev description: A dated snapshot of the current top-tier, closed ("frontier") models, meaning the API-only models from the major labs that set the capability bar. canonical: https://daily.dev/agentic-ai-hub/frontier-model-comparison/ og:type: article og:url: https://daily.dev/agentic-ai-hub/frontier-model-comparison/ og:title: Frontier Model Comparison | The Agentic AI Hub — daily.dev og:description: A dated snapshot of the current top-tier, closed ("frontier") models, meaning the API-only models from the major labs that set the capability bar. og:image: https://daily.dev/assets/og/agentic-ai-hub.png?v=40e6ff69 og:site_name: daily.dev og:locale: en_US article:modified_time: 2026-07-22 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev twitter:creator: @dailydotdev twitter:title: Frontier Model Comparison | The Agentic AI Hub — daily.dev twitter:description: A dated snapshot of the current top-tier, closed ("frontier") models, meaning the API-only models from the major labs that set the capability bar. twitter:image: https://daily.dev/assets/og/agentic-ai-hub.png?v=40e6ff69 --- [Skip to main content ](#main-content) [   ](https://daily.dev/) [ Agentic AI Hub ](/agentic-ai-hub/) [   ](https://daily.dev/) / [ Agentic AI Hub ](/agentic-ai-hub/) [Get the app ](https://api.daily.dev/get?ref=docs-topbar) # Frontier Model Comparison Too busy to read? Get an AI summary * Copy page Copy page Copy page as Markdown for LLMs [ View as Markdown View this page as plain text ](https://daily.dev/agentic-ai-hub/frontier-model-comparison.md/) > A dated snapshot of the current top-tier, **closed** ("frontier") models, meaning the API-only models from the major labs that set the capability bar. Open-weight models (DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, Mistral, GLM) are in [Open-Weight Models](/agentic-ai-hub/open-weight-models/). For their hosted API prices, check [OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai/models). It's here for the at-a-glance shape of the field, not as a live price sheet: prices and versions move weekly, so use the [leaderboards](/agentic-ai-hub/benchmarks-leaderboards/) for current specs, speed, and prices. **As of July 19, 2026.** Prices are standard-tier API, USD per 1M tokens, short-context base rate (long-context tiers typically cost \~2×). Output speed (tok/s) is essentially never an official spec, so check [Artificial Analysis](https://artificialanalysis.ai/) for measured throughput. Update (July 21, 2026): Google shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash (reflected below) alongside Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (cheaper, faster) and a security-only 3.5 Flash Cyber; Gemini 3.5 Pro is still in partner testing and behind schedule, and Gemini 4 pre-training has begun. | Model | Provider | Released | Context | Modalities (in) | Reasoning | In $/1M | Out $/1M | | -------------------------- | --------- | -------- | ------- | ------------------------- | --------- | --------- | ---------- | | GPT-5.6 "Sol" (flagship) | OpenAI | Jul 2026 | 1M | text, image | Yes | $5.00 | $30.00 | | GPT-5.6 "Terra" (balanced) | OpenAI | Jul 2026 | \~1M | text, image | Yes | $2.50 | $15.00 | | GPT-5.6 "Luna" (fast) | OpenAI | Jul 2026 | \~1M | text, image | Yes | $1.00 | $6.00 | | Claude Fable 5 (flagship) | Anthropic | 2026 | 1M | text, image | Yes | $10.00 | $50.00 | | Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | 2026 | 1M | text, image | Yes | $5.00 | $25.00 | | Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | 2026 | 1M | text, image | Yes | $2.00 ¹ | $10.00 ¹ | | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Anthropic | 2026 | 1M | text, image | Yes | $1.00 | $5.00 | | Gemini 3.1 Pro (flagship) | Google | Feb 2026 | \~1M | text, image, audio, video | Yes | \~$2.00 ² | \~$12.00 ² | | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Google | Jul 2026 | \~1M | text, image, audio, video | Yes | \~$1.50 | \~$7.50 | | Grok 4.5 | xAI | 2026 | 500K | text, image | Yes | $2.00 | $6.00 | | Command A Plus | Cohere | May 2026 | 128K | text | No | $2.50 | $10.00 | | Amazon Nova 2 Pro | Amazon | 2026 | 1M | multimodal | n/a | \~$2.50 | \~$12.50 | ¹ Sonnet 5 price rises to $3 / $15 on Sept 1, 2026. ² Gemini 3.1 Pro is tiered by context length (≤200K shown). Verify on the [Gemini pricing page](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing). Most flagships are now hybrid reasoning models (a toggleable "thinking" mode). Sources: [OpenAI](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing) · [Anthropic](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing) · [Google](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing) · [xAI](https://x.ai/api). **Live sources (bookmark these instead of trusting the table for exact numbers):** [Artificial Analysis](https://artificialanalysis.ai/) (intelligence + speed + price + latency), [OpenRouter models](https://openrouter.ai/models) (live per-provider pricing & real throughput), [llm-stats.com](https://llm-stats.com/) (spec sheets with pricing baked in). Share this page Copy link [ Previous The Labs: Who's Who ](/agentic-ai-hub/the-labs-whos-who/) [ Next Open-Weight Models ](/agentic-ai-hub/open-weight-models/) [ Previous ](#) [ Next ](#) Link copied!