GPT-6.1 Terra brings a specialised pitch to computer work
Terra targets visual reasoning and screen-based tasks. Its release makes the model, action environment and saved-result checks separate questions.
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OpenRouter models compared: 19 models on price, context and routing
OpenRouter's catalog holds 468 entries under 57 publisher prefixes, but the price next to each name is the price of one endpoint, not of the model. Nineteen leading models compared on published criteria, with picks by job and the routing settings that decide which host, precision and price tier serve a request.
LLM API pricing compared: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and Grok
Frontier models now cluster around $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, but batch discounts, cache multipliers, long-context tiers and off-peak clocks move the real bill by an order of magnitude. Every price below comes from the providers' own pricing pages as of October 15, 2026.
Top 10 AI models in October 2026, ranked by what they do best
Claude Opus 5.5 leads the independent indexes this month, but no single model is best at everything. Ten models, from $50-per-million-token flagships to MIT-licensed open weights, measured against published criteria, with the best pick for reasoning, coding, cost, long context, multimodal and self-hosting.
Top 10 open-weight models in October 2026, ranked
Xiaomi, Z.ai, Moonshot, Alibaba and DeepSeek now publish weights within a few points of the closed frontier. Ten models, ranked on Artificial Analysis and Arena scores, with the licence clause, parameter count and GPU budget that decide whether a team can actually run each one.
TypeSafe launches Jev, a model that returns decisions instead of text
TypeSafe AI came out of stealth on September 15 with $40 million in seed funding and Jev, a model that answers typed questions about a block of text with probabilities instead of prose. The pricing is unusual, the speed claims are large, and the first independent tests are mixed.
The reasoning-model era has a cost problem
Models that think before they answer are billed for every token of that thinking, whether or not you see it. The controls have moved from token budgets to effort levels, and the price of a request now depends on how hard the question is.