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The world's most popular AI assistant for writing, research, coding, and everyday tasks.
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Claude
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Anthropic's AI assistant prized for sharp reasoning, long-form writing, and coding.
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Anthropic's terminal-native agentic coding tool.
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| # | Model | Context | Input /1M | Output /1M | Best for |
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| 01 | Claude Fable 5 Anthropic |
1M tokens (128K max output) | $10.00 | $50.00 | The hardest multi-step agentic and coding work, frontier reasoning, and long-running autonomous tasks where capability matters most. |
| 02 | GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI |
~1.05M tokens (128K max output) | $5.00 | $30.00 | The highest-stakes reasoning, complex agents and frontier coding where capability outweighs cost. |
| 03 | GPT-5.5 OpenAI |
~1.05M tokens (128K max output) | $5.00 | $30.00 | Highest-stakes reasoning, complex agents, and frontier coding tasks where capability outweighs cost. |
| 04 | Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
1M tokens | $5.00 | $25.00 | Complex coding agents, long-horizon tasks, and workloads needing top reliability and reasoning. |
| 05 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Google |
2M tokens | $2.00 (under 200K; $4.00 above) | $12.00 (under 200K; $18.00 above) | Long-document and multimodal workloads, RAG over huge corpora, and Google Cloud-native apps. |
| 06 | Grok 4.5 xAI |
500K tokens | $2.00 ($0.50 cached) | $6.00 | Opus-class reasoning and agentic coding with high token efficiency and real-time X and web data. |
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