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Gemini 3.7 Flash is positioned as a low-cost coding/agent workhorse.🟢 confirmed🟢 robust$0.75 input / $3.75 output per 1Mhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/
Claude Sonnet 5 is priced in the mid-tier API band.🟢 confirmed🟢 robust$2 input / $10 output per 1Mhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5
Grok 4.6 is priced aggressively for API usage.⚠️ partial⚠️ sensitive$2 input / $6 output per 1Mhttps://codersera.com/blog/grok-4-6-pricing-api-costs-2026/
Grok 4.6 includes coding-agent positioning and standard context scale.⚠️ partial⚠️ sensitive256K contexthttps://codersera.com/blog/grok-4-6-pricing-api-costs-2026/
GPT-5.6 Sol is referenced as a higher-priced benchmark competitor.⚠️ partial⚠️ sensitive$5 input / $30 output per 1Mhttps://aitoolsrecap.com/Blog/ai-price-war-august-2026-openai-anthropic-deepseek
Gemini 3.1 Flash leads the cited latency table.🟢 confirmed🟢 robust180 ms TTFT; 210 tok/shttps://railwail.com/al/reports/state-of-ai-apis-2026
Claude 4.7 Sonnet is slower than Gemini 3.1 Flash in the cited latency table.🟢 confirmed🟢 robust320 ms TTFT; 84 tok/shttps://railwail.com/al/reports/state-of-ai-apis-2026
xAI Grok 4.3 lags Gemini 3.1 Flash and Claude 4.7 Sonnet on the cited latency table.🟢 confirmed🟢 robust410 ms TTFT; 68 tok/shttps://railwail.com/al/reports/state-of-ai-apis-2026
Tencent opened a 770B model under Apache 2.0 with benchmark scores.⚠️ partial⚠️ sensitive770B; 92.3 GPQA Diamond; 65.7 SWE-bench Prohttps://www.buildfastwithai.com/blogs/tencent-opens-a-770b-model-under-apache-2-0-ai-news-aug-31
Qwen3.8-Max launched with agentic/coding benchmark claims and API pricing.⚠️ partial⚠️ sensitive86.6 Terminal-Bench 2.1; 67.7 SWE-bench Pro; $2 / $6 per 1Mhttps://www.techtimes.com/articles/322773/20260803/qwen38-max-debuts-arenaai-qwenwork-brings-china-state-law-risk-enterprise-workflows.htm
GLM-5.3-Flash was described as a low-cost open-weight model with very large context.⚠️ partial⚠️ sensitive320B MoE; 18B active; 1M context; $0.15 / $0.50 per 1Mhttps://www.requesty.ai/blog/open-weight-frontier-august-2026-glm-qwen-hy4
Tencent Hy4 preview was reported to beat GPT-5.6 Sol on some tests.⚠️ partial⚠️ sensitive1-bit quantized variant around 213GBhttps://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260831-hy4-preview-tencent/
Gemini 3.7 Flash was positioned as a cheap workhorse for coding and agent workloads.🟢 confirmed🟢 robust$0.75 input / 1Mhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/
Claude Pro was priced at $20/month, with separate monthly credits for higher tiers.⚠️ partial⚠️ sensitive$20/mo; $100/mo; $200/mohttps://tech-insider.org/chatgpt-vs-gemini-vs-claude-pro-2026/
Grok 4.5 was highlighted more for price than benchmark dominance.⚠️ partial⚠️ sensitive$2 input / $6 output per 1Mhttps://tech-insider.org/chatgpt-vs-gemini-vs-claude-pro-2026/
Claude Opus 5 / Sonnet 5 / Haiku 4.5 had published base pricing tiers.