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Frontrumors editorial score: 92/100
Best for: Hardest reasoning, flagship agents
Frontier ceiling, frontier price. Availability is still staged, so plan migrations around access, not just capability.
Limited orgs first; 'GPT-6 Pro' in ChatGPT Pro
Frontrumors editorial score: 91/100
Best for: Agentic coding, long-context work
The coding pick of the autumn. 1M context plus the strongest agentic coding results we have tracked this cycle.
Anthropic list price
Frontrumors editorial score: 90/100
Best for: Evaluating Meta's new frontier tier
This row is Wonder Full, a separate variant from Wonder. Verify first-party access and pricing before production planning.
Muse Wonder Full is a Muse Code subscription model with no published per-token API price. The adjacent Muse Wonder API row is a different model.
Frontrumors editorial score: 89/100
Best for: Maximum-capability Anthropic workloads
Anthropic's Mythos-class flagship. Pay the premium only where Opus demonstrably falls short.
Mythos-class flagship, GA day one (1 Sep)
Frontrumors editorial score: 88/100
Best for: Google-stack teams, new pre-training run
The generally available Gemini 4 option while Carbon has restricted access. Its December price step-up is confirmed; a Pro release date is not.
Doubles to $4/$20 on 1 Dec 2026; first Gemini 4 model, Stable GA 13 Oct
Frontrumors editorial score: 85/100
Best for: Value frontier, 500K context
A larger base model at last generation's price. The value pick among Western frontier APIs this quarter.
Same price as Grok 4.6; higher rates above 200K tokens of context
Frontrumors editorial score: 84/100
Best for: Multilingual, Alibaba Cloud stacks
A steady mid-cycle flagship. Adopt on merit today; the Max line refreshes roughly quarterly.
Verified Alibaba International (Singapore) / US (Virginia) pricing $2/$6; Global scope is $1.65/$4.951. Implicit-cache read $0.25 in the selected region.
Frontrumors editorial score: 83/100
Best for: EU hosting, available open weights
API docs still say Public Preview; weights were released on 29 October. Evaluate the checkpoint on your workloads and review the ecosystem license, including separate Model-as-a-Service terms.
Mistral docs: Public Preview, 1M context, $0.70/$2.10 and $0.07 cached input; checked 2 Nov. Weights released under the Mistral Ecosystem Open-Weight License; separate Model-as-a-Service terms
Frontrumors editorial score: 82/100
Best for: Self-hosting, cost-sensitive volume
Not the absolute frontier, but at MIT weights and ~$0.15/$0.60 nothing else is close on cost per point.
Peak-rate default $0.30/$1.20; off-peak $0.15/$0.60, with UTC windows and holiday conditions. Verified first-party pricing; the API serves V4.1-Flash-1017.
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