[
  {
    "name": "Claude Opus 5",
    "slug": "claude-opus-5",
    "maker": "Anthropic",
    "released": "2026-07-24",
    "open": false,
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "Anthropic's Opus-tier model for complex agentic coding and enterprise work, positioned near Fable 5's intelligence at roughly half the price. Ships with a 1M-token context window.",
    "links": {
      "announcement": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5",
      "docs": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/overview",
      "try": "https://claude.ai"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "Claude Sonnet 5",
    "slug": "claude-sonnet-5",
    "maker": "Anthropic",
    "released": "2026-06-30",
    "open": false,
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "The balanced tier in the Claude 5 family, tuned for the best combination of speed and intelligence across coding and agent workloads. Carries a 1M-token context window.",
    "links": {
      "announcement": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5",
      "docs": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/overview",
      "try": "https://claude.ai"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "Claude Fable 5",
    "slug": "claude-fable-5",
    "maker": "Anthropic",
    "released": "2026-06-09",
    "open": false,
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "Anthropic's most capable widely released model and the first generally available Mythos-class tier, aimed at long-running agents. Priced at $10/$50 per million input/output tokens.",
    "links": {
      "announcement": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5",
      "docs": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/overview",
      "try": "https://claude.ai"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "Claude Opus 4.8",
    "slug": "claude-opus-4-8",
    "maker": "Anthropic",
    "released": "2026-05-28",
    "open": false,
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "The prior Opus flagship, now a legacy model succeeded by Opus 5 but still available via the Claude API. Introduced user-facing effort control and a faster inference mode.",
    "links": {
      "announcement": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8",
      "docs": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/overview"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "Claude Haiku 4.5",
    "slug": "claude-haiku-4-5",
    "maker": "Anthropic",
    "released": "2025-10-01",
    "open": false,
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "Anthropic's fastest model, offering near-frontier intelligence at low cost with a 200K-token context window. Supports optional extended thinking.",
    "links": {
      "docs": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/overview",
      "try": "https://claude.ai"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "GPT-5.6",
    "slug": "gpt-5-6",
    "maker": "OpenAI",
    "released": "2026-07-09",
    "open": false,
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "OpenAI's current flagship family, shipping in three tiers - Luna, Terra, and Sol - from most cost-efficient to most capable. Sol is positioned as OpenAI's strongest coding and vision model to date.",
    "links": {
      "docs": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models",
      "card": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-5.6"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "gpt-oss-120b",
    "slug": "gpt-oss-120b",
    "maker": "OpenAI",
    "released": "2025-08",
    "open": true,
    "license": "Apache 2.0",
    "modality": "Text",
    "note": "OpenAI's larger open-weight model (about 117B parameters), released under Apache 2.0 for local and self-hosted use with a focus on reasoning tasks.",
    "links": {
      "weights": "https://huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-120b"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "gpt-oss-20b",
    "slug": "gpt-oss-20b",
    "maker": "OpenAI",
    "released": "2025-08",
    "open": true,
    "license": "Apache 2.0",
    "modality": "Text",
    "note": "OpenAI's smaller open-weight model (about 22B parameters) under Apache 2.0, designed to run efficiently on modest hardware.",
    "links": {
      "weights": "https://huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-20b"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "Gemini 3.6 Flash",
    "slug": "gemini-3-6-flash",
    "maker": "Google DeepMind",
    "released": "2026-07-21",
    "open": false,
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "Google's high-throughput workhorse model, tuned for lower latency and roughly 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash. Generally available for production use.",
    "links": {
      "docs": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite",
    "slug": "gemini-3-5-flash-lite",
    "maker": "Google DeepMind",
    "released": "2026-07-21",
    "open": false,
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "The fastest, lowest-cost model in Google's Gemini 3.5 line, aimed at high-volume, latency-sensitive workloads.",
    "links": {
      "docs": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "Gemma 4",
    "slug": "gemma-4",
    "maker": "Google DeepMind",
    "released": "2026-04-02",
    "open": true,
    "license": "Apache 2.0",
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "Google DeepMind's open-weight family (E2B, E4B, 26B MoE, and 31B dense) built from the same research as Gemini 3, now shipped under Apache 2.0. Handles text, images, audio, and video with up to 256K context.",
    "links": {
      "announcement": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/",
      "card": "https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/core/model_card_4",
      "docs": "https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "Llama 4 Maverick",
    "slug": "llama-4-maverick",
    "maker": "Meta AI",
    "released": "2025-04-05",
    "open": true,
    "license": "Llama 4 Community License",
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "Meta's larger open-weight Llama 4 model, a mixture-of-experts design (about 400B total, 17B active parameters) with native text-and-image input.",
    "links": {
      "announcement": "https://huggingface.co/blog/llama4-release",
      "weights": "https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "Llama 4 Scout",
    "slug": "llama-4-scout",
    "maker": "Meta AI",
    "released": "2025-04-05",
    "open": true,
    "license": "Llama 4 Community License",
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "The smaller Llama 4 model that fits on a single high-end GPU, with 17B active parameters and a very long context window.",
    "links": {
      "announcement": "https://huggingface.co/blog/llama4-release",
      "weights": "https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "DeepSeek-V4-Pro",
    "slug": "deepseek-v4-pro",
    "maker": "DeepSeek",
    "released": "2026-04",
    "open": true,
    "license": "MIT",
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "DeepSeek's flagship open-weight model, a 1.6T-parameter mixture-of-experts release under the MIT license with image input and a 1M-token context via API.",
    "links": {
      "weights": "https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "DeepSeek-V4-Flash",
    "slug": "deepseek-v4-flash",
    "maker": "DeepSeek",
    "released": "2026-04",
    "open": true,
    "license": "MIT",
    "modality": "Text",
    "note": "The smaller, faster text-only member of the DeepSeek V4 family (about 291B parameters), MIT-licensed and tuned for agentic and coding workloads.",
    "links": {
      "weights": "https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "Qwen3.8-Max",
    "slug": "qwen3-8-max",
    "maker": "Alibaba (Qwen)",
    "released": "2026-08-03",
    "open": false,
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "Alibaba's flagship Qwen model, a 2.4T-parameter mixture-of-experts system (about 95B active) with a 1M-token context and native text-plus-vision input. Currently API-only; Alibaba has announced an open-weights release.",
    "links": {
      "announcement": "https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "Qwen3.6-27B",
    "slug": "qwen3-6-27b",
    "maker": "Alibaba (Qwen)",
    "released": "2026-04",
    "open": true,
    "license": "Apache 2.0",
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "An open-weight (Apache 2.0) Qwen model aimed at coding, with a vision encoder for multimodal input. Sized at 27B parameters to run on a single high-end GPU.",
    "links": {
      "weights": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "Mistral Large 3",
    "slug": "mistral-large-3",
    "maker": "Mistral AI",
    "released": "2025-12-02",
    "open": true,
    "license": "Apache 2.0",
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "Mistral's open-weight flagship, a 675B-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts model (41B active) under Apache 2.0 with an added vision encoder for image understanding.",
    "links": {
      "weights": "https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Large-3-675B-Instruct-2512",
      "card": "https://docs.mistral.ai/models/model-cards/mistral-large-3-25-12"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "Grok 4.6",
    "slug": "grok-4-6",
    "maker": "xAI",
    "released": "2026-08-07",
    "open": false,
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "xAI's 1.5T-parameter frontier model, a refinement of Grok 4.5 through improved fine-tuning and reinforcement learning rather than a scale increase. Closed-weight, available through the xAI API and Grok apps.",
    "links": {
      "try": "https://grok.com"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "MiniMax M2.7",
    "slug": "minimax-m2-7",
    "maker": "MiniMax",
    "released": "2026-03-18",
    "open": true,
    "modality": "Text",
    "note": "An open-weight 230B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (about 10B active) built for agentic and coding workflows, positioned as a low-cost frontier option.",
    "links": {
      "weights": "https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7"
    }
  },
  {
    "name": "Kimi K3",
    "slug": "kimi-k3",
    "maker": "Moonshot AI",
    "released": "2026-07-27",
    "open": true,
    "license": "Kimi K3 License",
    "modality": "Multimodal",
    "note": "Moonshot AI's open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 2.8T total parameters (104B active) and a 1M-token context, among the largest open models released. Multimodal via a native vision encoder.",
    "links": {
      "weights": "https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3"
    }
  }
]