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Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform pricing/public positioning is live this week, with agent-platform token pricing shown on the product page.🟢 robust🟢 robust$2 input / $12 output per 1M tokens; cached input $0.2https://cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/generative-ai/pricing
Grok 4.6 launched with a clear pricing tier and a latency tradeoff versus prior claims.🟢 robust🟢 robust$2/$6 per 1M tokens; $4/$12 over 200K; TTFT 43.82s; 59.2 tok/s; blended cost $1.35/Mhttps://x.ai/news/grok-4-6
Grok 4.6’s independent analysis highlights slower time-to-first-response despite respectable throughput.🟢 robust🟢 robust43.82s TTFT; 59.2 tok/shttps://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/grok-4-6-benchmarks-and-analysis
Grok 4.6 exposes web search, X search, and code execution as paid API add-ons.🟢 robust🟢 robust$5 per 1,000 successful callshttps://codersera.com/blog/grok-4-6-pricing-api-costs-2026/
Claude Opus 5 has vendor-verified API pricing in the same comparison lane.🟢 robust🟢 robust$5 input / $25 output per 1M tokenshttps://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5
Claude Opus 5 is strong on standard coding benchmarks in roundup coverage, but that score is not the same as scientific-coding performance.⚠️ sensitive⚠️ sensitive96–97% SWE-bench Verified; 47.90% Pass@1 on SWE-bench Sciencehttps://alphacorp.ai/blog/best-ai-for-coding-august-2026-latest-models-compared-ranked
Claude Opus 5’s scientific-coding result is a useful counterweight to marketing-style coding claims.🟢 robust🟢 robust47.90% Pass@1https://swescience.github.io/
GPT-5.6 Sol appears in cross-model pricing/benchmark comparisons, but the scorecard is secondary rather than canonical.⚠️ sensitive⚠️ sensitive88.8% on Terminal-Bench 2.1https://thinkml.ai/llm-api-pricing-2026-gpt-5-6-vs-claude-vs-gemini-vs-grok/
Cross-model pricing comparisons place Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Grok side by side in one matrix.⚠️ sensitive⚠️ sensitivemixed pricing bandshttps://thinkml.ai/llm-api-pricing-2026-gpt-5-6-vs-claude-vs-gemini-vs-grok/
Grok 4.6 is repeatedly framed as stronger on agentic work and coding harnesses, but the public writeups do not fully agree on where it leads.⚠️ sensitive⚠️ sensitiveAA Index 61; CursorBench v3.2 69.9%; DeepSWE 65.9%; FrontierCode v1.1 61.3%https://www.datacamp.com/blog/grok-4-6
New app/API visibility this week includes Gemini’s enterprise agent platform and Grok’s API surface, both of which are positioned for agent workflows.🟢 robust🟢 robustpricing page update; web/X search; code executionhttps://cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/generative-ai/pricing
Qwen3.8-Max is part of the same scoreboard lane as a high-context competitor, though the reporting is secondary.⚠️ sensitive⚠️ sensitive2.4T total; ~95B active; 1M contexthttps://www.ainchina.com/blog/china-open-source-trap-ai-strategy-silicon-valley-2026/
Qwen 27B vision-language model is explicitly described as Apache 2.0 open source.🟢 robust🟢 robust27Bhttps://chinamodelapi.com/de/news