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Frontier Model Comparison

A side-by-side reference for today’s frontier large language models — context window, modalities, API pricing, open-weights status, and headline benchmarks. Many flagship models share architectural lineage — mixture-of-experts routing and chain-of-thought reasoning are now table stakes — but they diverge sharply on context length, openness, and cost.

Last reviewed: October 12, 2026 (UTC) · 14 models

VendorModelReleasedContext ModalitiesWeights$ / Mtok in$ / Mtok out MMLUGPQASWE-bench
OpenAI GPT-5.1 2026-02 400K text, image, audio CLOSED — — — — —
OpenAI GPT-5 2025-08 400K text, image, audio CLOSED — — — — —
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 2026-01 200K text, image CLOSED — — — — —
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 2025-09 200K text, image CLOSED $3.00 $15.00 — — —
Google DeepMind Gemini 3 Pro 2026-03 1M text, image, audio, video CLOSED — — — — —
Google DeepMind Gemini 2.5 Pro 2025-03 1M text, image, audio, video CLOSED — — — — —
Meta Llama 4 Maverick 2025-04 1M text, image OPEN — — — — —
Meta Llama 4 Scout 2025-04 10M text, image OPEN — — — — —
DeepSeek DeepSeek-V3 2024-12 128K text OPEN — — — — —
DeepSeek DeepSeek-R1 2025-01 128K text OPEN — — — — —
Mistral AI Mistral Large 2 2024-07 128K text CLOSED — — — — —
xAI Grok 4 2025-07 256K text, image CLOSED — — — — —
Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3-235B 2025-04 128K text OPEN — — — — —
Cohere Command A 2025-03 256K text OPEN — — — — —

Figures are compiled from public sources (vendor announcements, model cards, published evals). Where a value is not publicly confirmed it is shown as null / — rather than estimated. Benchmark scores vary by harness and prompting; treat as indicative. Corrections: [email protected]

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