https://models.wtf/whats-new/Models.wtf | What's newModel releases, feature announcements, and pricing changes across AI models.2026-07-24T00:00:00ZModels.wtfhttps://models.wtf/whats-new/#claude-opus-5-launchClaude Opus 5 released2026-07-24T00:00:00Z2026-07-24T00:00:00ZAnthropic ships a flagship built for agentic coding and business workflows at $5/$25 per million tokens, which is half the price of Fable 5. It has a 1M token context window, and it now leads the SWE-Bench Verified leaderboard at 97%.https://models.wtf/whats-new/#gemini-3-6-flash-family-launchGemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite released2026-07-21T00:00:00Z2026-07-21T00:00:00ZGoogle ships a stronger agentic workhorse at $1.50/$7.50 per million tokens and a high-throughput Flash-Lite tier at $0.30/$2.50, both with 1M-token context windows.https://models.wtf/whats-new/#benchmark-updatesNew benchmarks added to comparison2026-07-18T00:00:00Z2026-07-18T00:00:00ZAdded Terminal-Bench and HLE benchmarks for more comprehensive model evaluation.https://models.wtf/whats-new/#sonnet-5-intro-pricingClaude Sonnet 5 intro pricing extended2026-07-18T00:00:00Z2026-07-18T00:00:00ZIntro pricing extended through August 31, 2026: $2/$10 per million tokens (input/output).https://models.wtf/whats-new/#kimi-k3-launchKimi K3 released2026-07-16T00:00:00Z2026-07-16T00:00:00ZMoonshot AI launches its 2.8T-parameter flagship with 1M token context, native vision, and always-on reasoning. Open weights promised for late July.https://models.wtf/whats-new/#grok-4-5-launchGrok 4.5 released2026-07-16T00:00:00Z2026-07-16T00:00:00ZxAI's new flagship pairs strong terminal and coding performance with real-time access to X (Twitter) data, at a mid-tier $2/$6 per million tokens with a 500K context window.https://models.wtf/whats-new/#inkling-launchInkling released by Thinking Machines2026-07-15T00:00:00Z2026-07-15T00:00:00ZMira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab ships its first model: a 975B open-weights multimodal flagship under Apache 2.0, available on Hugging Face.https://models.wtf/whats-new/#gpt-5-6-family-launchGPT-5.6 family released2026-07-09T00:00:00Z2026-07-09T00:00:00ZOpenAI ships three tiers at once: Sol (flagship, $5/$30 per million tokens), Terra (balanced, $2.50/$15), and Luna (budget, $1/$6), all with a 1.05M token context window.https://models.wtf/whats-new/#muse-spark-1-1-launchMuse Spark 1.1 released2026-07-09T00:00:00Z2026-07-09T00:00:00ZMeta's first paid, closed-weights model after the open Llama era: 1M token context, an exceptional 256K max output, and aggressive $1.25/$4.25 pricing aimed at agent workloads.https://models.wtf/whats-new/#sonnet-5-launchClaude Sonnet 5 released2026-06-30T00:00:00Z2026-06-30T00:00:00ZNew Sonnet model with autonomous planning, multi-step tool use, and 1M token context. Available at intro pricing.https://models.wtf/whats-new/#claude-fable-5-launchClaude Fable 5 released2026-06-09T00:00:00Z2026-06-09T00:00:00ZAnthropic launches its most capable reasoning model with 1M token context and state-of-the-art performance on SWE-Bench. Access was paused June 12 under a US export directive and restored July 1.https://models.wtf/whats-new/#opus-price-dropClaude Opus 4.8 price reduced2026-06-05T00:00:00Z2026-06-05T00:00:00ZInput price reduced from $15 to $5 per million tokens. Output price halved from $60 to $25.https://models.wtf/whats-new/#gemini-3-5-flash-launchGemini 3.5 Flash released2026-05-19T00:00:00Z2026-05-19T00:00:00ZGoogle's speed tier announced at I/O 2026 punches above its weight: it beats Gemini 3.1 Pro on some coding benchmarks at about 25% lower cost.https://models.wtf/whats-new/#mistral-medium-3-5-launchMistral Medium 3.5 released2026-04-28T00:00:00Z2026-04-28T00:00:00ZMistral released an open-weight, multimodal model for coding and agent work. It has a 256K-token context window and is available through the API or for self-hosting.