> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

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title: "Frontier Model Comparison"
url: https://daily.dev/agentic-ai-hub/frontier-model-comparison/
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."
lastUpdated: "2026-07-22"
---

> 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).