Mutable alias for xAI's newest speech-to-speech voice agent model; since October 14, 2026 it points to Grok Voice 3.0, after earlier tracking Voice 1.0 and 2.0. Runs over a realtime, OpenAI Realtime-compatible WebSocket in 20+ languages.
Anthropic's current smallest and fastest Claude model, released October 2026 for high-volume, latency-sensitive work such as classification, extraction, routing and subagent tasks. The first Haiku with an effort control, plus a 1M-token context.
Nano Banana 2.1 (gemini-nano-banana-2.1), GA on October 6, 2026, is Google's newest and recommended default image model, updating Nano Banana 2 with better text rendering and character consistency, 1K to 4K output and up to 14 reference images.
Lowest-cost Imagine video tier, added in October 2026, for 1-15 second text- or image-to-video with lip-synced audio. Reaches 1080p by upscaling 720p and lacks the reference, voice and keyframe controls of Video 1.5.
Mid-tier GPT-6 model released 2026-09-29 that OpenAI says nears GPT-6 Astra on coding, computer use and professional work at a fifth of Astra's token price; 1.05M context, low-to-max effort, optional Ultrafast mode.
Anthropic's current Sonnet model, released September 2026 as a faster, lower-cost complement to Claude Opus 5.5. Balances speed and intelligence with a 1M-token context, adaptive thinking and a between_tools setting that skips up-front thinking.
Anthropic's current Opus model and its recommended starting point for most workloads as of October 2026, first of the Claude 5.5 family. Built for long-running agentic coding and knowledge work, with always-on adaptive thinking and a 1M-token context.
Most efficient GPT-6 model (September 2026) for focused, high-volume work, priced at $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens, with the full 1.05M context and effort from none to max. OpenAI's suggested replacement for retiring GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 snapshots.
First Sol model of the GPT-6 generation (September 2026), built for complex coding and agentic workflows with a 1.05M context and none-to-max reasoning. Followed a week later by GPT-6.1 Sol, which replaced it in OpenAI's main lineup.
xAI's flagship model as of October 2026, released September 21, 2026 for coding, agents and knowledge work. Offers a 500k-token context, no text output limit and reasoning effort up to xhigh.
ElevenLabs' current top music model, released in September 2026, improves prompt adherence and arrangement depth over Music v2. It keeps the same composition plans, audio reference and inpainting workflows, and composition-plan chunks take up to 6,132 characters.
Now served by DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (API name deepseek-flash), DeepSeek's newest model and cheaper tier since September 2026: an open-weight 552B MoE with a 1M context. It replaced the retired V4-Flash.
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (September 2026), the first model on DeepSeek's V4.1 architecture: it uses a 552B backbone activating 8B parameters in prefill and 16B in decode, and supports 1M tokens under MIT.
Faster of OpenAI's two September 2026 GPT Image 2.5 models, for everyday generation and editing; OpenAI cites up to 50% lower latency than Images 2.0. Quality settings run from low to max; alias of the 2026-09-08 snapshot.
Dated September 8, 2026 snapshot that the gpt-image-2.5-flare alias currently resolves to, for callers who want Flare's output fixed if the alias moves. Billed at the same token rates as GPT Image 2.
OpenAI's most capable image model as of October 2026 (released September 2026), aimed at precise, detail-heavy generation and editing at the cost of longer generation times; quality from low to max. Alias of the 2026-09-08 snapshot.
Pinned September 8, 2026 snapshot of GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst and the default behind its alias; text and image in, image out, through the generations, edits and Batch endpoints.
OpenAI's flagship as of October 2026, released September 2026 as the top GPT-6 model for demanding reasoning, coding, computer use and research. 1.05M-token context, 128K output, reasoning effort from low to max.
Lyria 3.5 (lyria-3.5) is Google's newest music model, GA in the Gemini API since September 3, 2026, generating full-length songs with vocals and timed lyrics from text or image prompts as 44.1 kHz stereo. It replaces Lyria 3 Pro.
Microsoft AI's newest batch speech-to-text model (September 2026, in preview on Azure), covering 60 languages with automatic language detection, code-switching, speaker diarization and word timestamps. A real-time sibling, MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, followed on 2026-10-01.
