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What are AI Models for Claude Code?
AI models are systems designed to simulate human intelligence by learning from data and solving complex tasks. They include specialized types like Large Language Models (LLMs) for text generation, image models for visual recognition and editing, and video models for processing and analyzing dynamic content. These models power applications such as chatbots, facial recognition, video summarization, and personalized recommendations. Their capabilities rely on advanced algorithms, extensive training datasets, and robust computational resources. AI models are transforming industries by automating processes, enhancing decision-making, and enabling creative innovations. Compare and read user reviews of the best AI Models for Claude Code currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic’s mid-tier Claude 5.5 model designed for fast, well-scoped everyday work, coding, and professional document creation. Anthropic says it runs more than 30% faster than Claude Sonnet 5 and typically costs up to 30% less per task while keeping the same base token pricing. The model shows major gains in agentic coding, with a 70.6% score on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and stronger performance on FrontierCode and CursorBench than its predecessor. Sonnet 5.5 also performs strongly on knowledge work, computer use, chart understanding, and long-horizon tasks, in some cases approaching Claude Opus 5.5 at higher effort settings. Anthropic positions it as especially useful for debugging, routine coding, collaboration, and producing polished documents, slides, spreadsheets, and user interfaces. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is available across Anthropic’s platforms as well as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.Starting Price: $2 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Claude Fable 5.1
Anthropic
Claude Fable 5.1 is Anthropic’s advanced AI model for coding, knowledge work, research, and long-running agentic tasks. It is designed to improve on Claude Fable 5 with stronger performance across software engineering, scientific research, multidisciplinary reasoning, computer use, business workflows, and complex problem solving. The model can handle extended multi-step work, verify its own results, diagnose difficult software issues, and operate effectively across tool-heavy workflows. Anthropic also reduced cache-read pricing for Fable 5.1, lowering typical usage costs compared with Fable 5 and creating larger savings for highly agentic workloads. Fable 5.1 includes updated safeguards intended to reduce false positives while allowing more legitimate cybersecurity tasks such as vulnerability discovery for defensive purposes. The model is available through Claude products, the Claude API, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.Starting Price: $10 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Claude Mythos 5.1
Anthropic
Claude Mythos 5.1 is Anthropic’s newest Mythos-class model, designed for advanced cybersecurity, biology, scientific research, coding, and long-running knowledge work. It is the same underlying model as Claude Fable 5.1 but uses different safeguards: Fable 5.1 is generally available, while Mythos 5.1 is restricted to trusted access programs with safeguards specifically designed for cybersecurity and life sciences research. The model sets a new performance frontier for agentic coding and demonstrates the strongest cyber capabilities of any Anthropic model released to date. In scientific research, Mythos 5.1 can work with specialized tools and complex workflows across molecular design, computational biology, and other technical domains. In Anthropic’s experiments, it designed high-affinity protein binders across multiple targets and achieved its strongest measured hit rate to date. It also optimized seven open-source protein and genomics deep learning models. -
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Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic
Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic’s advanced AI model for agentic coding, complex knowledge work, computer use, research, and long-running professional tasks. It is designed to handle large codebases, multi-step workflows, financial analysis, document creation, software audits, and other demanding workloads with improved efficiency over Claude Opus 5. Anthropic reports that Opus 5.5 uses fewer tokens per task, produces output more than 30% faster, and costs less to run than its predecessor. The model also improves communication quality by putting important information first, reducing unnecessary jargon, and following writing instructions more consistently. Safety enhancements include stronger prompt-injection resistance, action screening, sandboxing support, code review, behavioral alignment testing, and safeguards for high-risk cybersecurity & biology. Claude Opus 5.5 is available through Claude, Claude Code, the Claude Platform API, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.Starting Price: $4 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Kimi K3.1 Pro
Moonshot AI
Kimi K3.1 Pro is a multimodal large language model developed by Moonshot AI for advanced reasoning, software development, 3D modeling, financial analysis, and autonomous AI agent workflows. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 2.8 trillion total parameters and 104 billion active parameters, supporting a context window of one million tokens. Its coding capabilities include debugging existing applications, generating complete software projects, developing interactive websites, and creating applications with game engines. Kimi K3.1 Pro can analyze images, interpret spatial relationships, generate CAD scripts, and create three-dimensional assets from text descriptions or visual references. Its reasoning and tool-use capabilities support financial modeling, investment research, document analysis, and multistep business workflows. The model is available through Kimi's web and mobile applications, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API, with a Highspeed variant.Starting Price: $2 per 1M tokens -
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Muse Wonder
Meta
Muse Wonder is a frontier artificial intelligence model developed by Meta for personal assistance, professional workflows, software development, and autonomous agent tasks. The model combines Active Memory, which retrieves relevant information from previous conversations, with Active Focus, which supports sustained execution of complex, multistep assignments. Muse Wonder can assist with research, document analysis, financial and legal information, software engineering, and business process automation. Its agentic capabilities enable it to work across applications, use contextual information, adapt to obstacles, and request clarification or approval when necessary. The model supports coding activities ranging from small application development to complex software projects involving repeated testing and revision. Muse Wonder is available through the Meta Model API and Muse Code, with additional integration into Meta's Muse assistant planned for future releases.Starting Price: $4 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Claude Opus 5
Anthropic
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s advanced everyday AI model built for coding, knowledge work, problem-solving, visual outputs, and production AI workflows. The model delivers stronger performance than Opus 4.8 at the same base price and is positioned as a cost-effective alternative close to Claude Fable 5 frontier intelligence. Claude Opus 5 supports configurable effort settings so users can optimize for intelligence, speed, or token efficiency. It performs especially well on software engineering, automation, computer use, scientific research, and knowledge work evaluations. The model is available on Claude Max, Claude Pro, Claude API, Claude Code, and other Claude platforms, with Fast mode available at a higher price. Built for developers, researchers, enterprises, and everyday Claude users, Claude Opus 5 helps teams complete complex tasks with stronger verification, careful iteration, and practical cost efficiency.Starting Price: $5 per 1M tokens (input) -
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GLM-5.3
Z.ai
GLM-5.3 is Z.ai’s frontier coding model designed for complex software engineering, long-horizon agent tasks, and advanced post-training research. The model uses the same base model as GLM-5.2, with improvements coming from scaled post-training across more environments, more diverse tasks, and larger compute investment. GLM-5.3 delivers stronger coding performance, better task ownership, improved benchmark results, and greater efficiency across realistic development workflows. It is built to handle complex coding tasks, production-style engineering work, research environments, automation tasks, and agentic workflows that require multi-step execution. The model also shows emergent cyber capabilities in vulnerability discovery and exploitation-chain reasoning, with safety evaluation and hardening planned before open-weight release.Starting Price: Free -
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Claude Mythos 5
Anthropic
Claude Mythos 5 is Anthropic’s most advanced restricted-access AI model, designed for trusted cyberdefenders, infrastructure providers, and select research organizations. It uses the same underlying model as Claude Fable 5 but provides lifted safeguards in approved areas for specialized high-trust use cases. The model delivers exceptional capabilities in cybersecurity, software engineering, scientific research, long-context reasoning, vision, and autonomous task execution. Anthropic initially deployed Claude Mythos 5 through Project Glasswing in collaboration with the U.S. government to help protect critical software and infrastructure. The model also shows strong potential in life sciences, including protein design, molecular biology hypothesis generation, and genomics research. Claude Mythos 5 is built for organizations that need frontier AI capabilities under controlled, trusted-access conditions.Starting Price: $10 per 1 million (input) -
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GLM-5.2
Z.ai
GLM-5.2 is an advanced AI foundation model designed to support complex reasoning, coding, and long-range agentic tasks. It helps developers, teams, and organizations build intelligent systems that can understand instructions, solve technical problems, and assist with demanding workflows. The model is especially useful for software engineering, automation, research, and productivity-focused applications. GLM-5.2 is built to handle large amounts of context, making it suitable for projects that require deeper understanding across extended conversations, documents, or codebases. Its mixture-of-experts design helps balance strong performance with more efficient model operation. GLM-5.2 gives businesses and developers a powerful AI tool for creating smarter applications, improving technical workflows, and supporting advanced digital experiences.Starting Price: Free -
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Kimi K3
Moonshot AI
Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI’s most capable model, built for frontier intelligence scenarios such as software engineering, knowledge work, deep reasoning, and multimodal understanding. The model has 2.8 trillion parameters and uses Kimi Delta Attention, a hybrid linear attention mechanism, along with Attention Residuals for long-context performance. Kimi K3 supports a 1 million token context window, making it useful for analyzing large codebases, long documents, complex knowledge bases, and multi-step workflows. It includes native visual understanding for images and videos, with support for structured message formats, base64 image input, uploaded video files, and multimodal reasoning. Developers can use Kimi K3 through an OpenAI-compatible API with support for streaming, structured JSON output, partial mode, custom tools, dynamic tool loading, and automatic context caching.Starting Price: $3 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Claude Fable 5
Anthropic
Claude Fable 5 is an advanced AI model from Anthropic designed to assist with software engineering, research, knowledge work, vision tasks, and complex reasoning. Built on the Mythos-class architecture, it delivers significantly improved performance across coding, analysis, and long-context workflows. The model can handle extended autonomous tasks while maintaining focus and consistency over large amounts of information. Claude Fable 5 integrates advanced reasoning, multimodal understanding, and memory capabilities to support professional and enterprise use cases. Anthropic has implemented specialized safeguards that automatically route certain high-risk cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, and model distillation requests to a different model. Claude Fable 5 helps organizations and professionals accelerate complex work while maintaining strong safety and governance controls.Starting Price: $10 per 1 million (input) -
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Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's latest AI model, designed to deliver stronger agentic capabilities for coding, reasoning, tool use, and knowledge work while maintaining the efficiency of the Sonnet family. The model can independently plan tasks, use external tools such as browsers and terminals, and complete complex workflows that previously required larger AI models. Sonnet 5 significantly improves upon Claude Sonnet 4.6 with better reasoning, coding performance, reduced hallucinations, stronger safety behavior, and more effective autonomous task execution. It is available across Claude plans and through the Claude API with OpenAI-style developer access for application integration. Anthropic also introduced lower introductory API pricing, making Sonnet 5 a cost-effective option for developers building AI-powered products. By combining advanced agentic capabilities with improved safety and competitive pricing, Claude Sonnet 5 helps developers build more capable AI applications.Starting Price: $2 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic
Claude Haiku 5.5 is an Anthropic AI model designed for high-volume, latency-sensitive workloads such as classification, routing, extraction, and subagent tasks. The model supports adaptive thinking, allowing it to determine when and how much reasoning to perform based on the request. Developers can use the effort parameter to balance response quality against speed and cost, while adaptive thinking is enabled by default. Claude Haiku 5.5 provides a 1 million token context window and supports outputs of up to 128,000 tokens, increasing from the 200,000-token context window and 64,000-token output limit of Claude Haiku 4.5. It also supports browser use through the Claude API and Google Cloud for workflows that require interaction with web-based environments. Claude Haiku 5.5 uses Anthropic's newer tokenizer introduced with Claude 4.7 and later models, which results in the same text using approximately 30% more tokens than with Claude Haiku 4.5.Starting Price: $0.10 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Kimi K2.7 Code
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2.7 Code is an open-source, coding-focused agentic AI model developed by Moonshot AI for long-horizon software engineering tasks. It is designed to improve coding performance, agent workflows, and real-world development assistance compared with earlier Kimi K2 versions. The model supports a 256K context window, making it useful for working with large codebases, long technical documents, and complex multi-step programming tasks. Kimi K2.7 Code is available through Kimi Code and API access, with OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible options for easier integration into developer workflows. It is also listed on Hugging Face and supports deployment through inference engines such as vLLM, SGLang, and KTransformers. With improved agentic capabilities, long-context support, and reduced thinking-token usage compared with K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code gives developers a flexible open-source option for AI-assisted coding.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-5.3-Flash
Z.ai
GLM-5.3-Flash is Z.ai’s natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series (previously previewed as Ox Alpha), designed to deliver strong coding, agentic, visual, and knowledge-work performance at relatively low inference cost. It uses 320 billion total parameters with 18 billion active parameters, along with a hybrid architecture that combines sparse and linear attention to reduce the cost of long-context processing. The model supports context lengths of up to one million tokens and was trained on a 30-trillion-token multimodal corpus. GLM-5.3-Flash can reason across text, images, documents, interfaces, dashboards, and other visual information while using that feedback to refine its own outputs. Z.ai reports substantial gains over GLM-5.2 on coding and agentic benchmarks, including DeepSWE and AutomationBench, while approaching higher-cost frontier models on several evaluations.Starting Price: $0.15 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Muse Spark 1.1
Meta
Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal reasoning model from Meta Superintelligence Labs built for agentic tasks, coding, computer use, tool use, and multimodal understanding. The model improves on the original Muse Spark with stronger performance in planning, orchestration, long-context work, coding workflows, and external app interactions. Muse Spark 1.1 can manage a 1 million token context window, remember earlier actions, retrieve important information, compact context, and delegate tasks across parallel subagents. It is designed to operate across tools, MCP servers, custom skills, browsers, native apps, scripts, images, video, PDFs, and audio-based workflows. Developers can access Muse Spark 1.1 through the new Meta Model API public preview, while users can try it in Thinking mode in the Meta AI app and on meta.ai.Starting Price: $1.25 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Laguna S 2.1
Poolside
Laguna S 2.1 is an open weight agentic coding model designed to pursue longer-horizon work and make effective use of reasoning. It uses a 118-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 8 billion active parameters per token and supports a context window of up to one million tokens in both thinking and no-thinking modes. Its compact active size makes it suitable for complex work on local machines while remaining competitive with models many times larger on terminal, software-engineering, codebase-question-answering, and tool-use benchmarks. Laguna S 2.1 is built to keep working through difficult tasks with greater persistence, verification, and willingness to backtrack instead of declaring success too early. In demonstrated runs, it built and validated a browser rendering engine from an empty folder, optimized an agent harness for faster execution and substantially lower memory allocation, and completed extended mathematical research using the tools in its environment. -
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Muse Spark 1.2
Meta
Muse Spark 1.2 is Meta’s coding-focused model update designed to power Muse Code and improve software engineering workflows. The model is built for code generation, complex debugging, codebase understanding, long-horizon development tasks, and end-to-end developer workflows. Muse Spark 1.2 was co-trained with Muse Code to improve performance inside the terminal coding agent environment. It supports planning, goal conditioning, context compaction, subagent coordination, and iterative coding workflows across large repositories. The model was trained with expanded coding compute, diverse development environments, self-improvement loops, and long-running engineering tasks. Built for AI developers and software teams, Muse Spark 1.2 helps agents plan, write, validate, debug, and optimize code with greater autonomy.Starting Price: $1.25 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.8 is a powerful AI model from Anthropic designed to deliver stronger coding, reasoning, agentic workflows, and advanced collaboration capabilities for developers, enterprises, and AI-powered productivity tasks. The model builds on Claude Opus 4.7 with improvements across coding benchmarks, practical knowledge work, alignment, and reliability while maintaining the same pricing structure. Claude Opus 4.8 introduces enhanced honesty and reasoning behavior, making it less likely to generate unsupported claims or overlook flaws during complex tasks such as software development and agent execution. The release also includes new features such as effort control settings, fast mode for lower-cost high-speed processing, and dynamic workflows in Claude Code that allow the system to coordinate hundreds of parallel subagents for large-scale tasks.Starting Price: $5 per 1M (input) -
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MiniMax M3
MiniMax
MiniMax M3 is an open-weight multimodal AI model designed for coding, agentic workflows, long-context reasoning, and complex automation tasks. The model combines frontier-level coding performance, native multimodal understanding, and a context window of up to 1 million tokens. MiniMax M3 uses MiniMax Sparse Attention to improve long-context efficiency while reducing compute requirements for large-scale inputs. It supports text, image, and video understanding, making it useful for workflows that combine code, documents, visual references, and tool-driven tasks. The model is built for repository-scale reasoning, software engineering, autonomous task execution, tool calling, and multi-step agent workflows. MiniMax M3 helps developers, AI teams, and enterprises build capable agents that can reason across large contexts and work with multimodal information.Starting Price: $0.30 per million input tokens -
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Sakana Fugu Ultra
Sakana AI
Sakana Fugu Ultra is the higher-performance version of Sakana Fugu, built to coordinate a deeper pool of expert AI agents for demanding, high-stakes tasks. The model operates through a single OpenAI-compatible API while dynamically orchestrating multiple powerful models behind the scenes. It is designed to maximize answer quality for complex workflows such as coding, code review, paper reproduction, cybersecurity analysis, scientific reasoning, patent investigation, and autonomous research. Fugu Ultra uses learned orchestration techniques to assemble, route, and coordinate agents instead of relying on hand-designed workflows or a single frontier model. Users can access advanced multi-agent intelligence without manually managing separate models, prompts, or collaboration patterns. Sakana Fugu Ultra is built for teams that need stronger performance, deeper reasoning, and more reliable results on difficult multi-step problems.Starting Price: $20 per month -
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Claude
Anthropic
Claude is a next-generation AI assistant developed by Anthropic to help individuals and teams solve complex problems with safety, accuracy, and reliability at its core. It is designed to support a wide range of tasks, including writing, editing, coding, data analysis, and research. Claude allows users to create and iterate on documents, websites, graphics, and code directly within chat using collaborative tools like Artifacts. The platform supports file uploads, image analysis, and data visualization to enhance productivity and understanding. Claude is available across web, iOS, and Android, making it accessible wherever work happens. With built-in web search and extended reasoning capabilities, Claude helps users find information and think through challenging problems more effectively. Anthropic emphasizes security, privacy, and responsible AI development to ensure Claude can be trusted in professional and personal workflows.Starting Price: Free -
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Claude Sonnet 3.7
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 3.7, developed by Anthropic, is a cutting-edge AI model that combines rapid response with deep reflective reasoning. This innovative model allows users to toggle between quick, efficient responses and more thoughtful, reflective answers, making it ideal for complex problem-solving. By allowing Claude to self-reflect before answering, it excels at tasks that require high-level reasoning and nuanced understanding. With its ability to engage in deeper thought processes, Claude Sonnet 3.7 enhances tasks such as coding, natural language processing, and critical thinking applications. Available across various platforms, it offers a powerful tool for professionals and organizations seeking a high-performance, adaptable AI.Starting Price: Free -
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Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4 represents a revolutionary leap in AI model performance, setting a new standard for coding and reasoning capabilities. As the world’s best coding model, Opus 4 excels in handling long-running, complex tasks, and agent workflows. With sustained performance that can run for hours, it outperforms all prior models—including the Sonnet series—making it ideal for demanding coding projects, research, and AI agent applications. It’s the model of choice for organizations looking to enhance their software engineering, streamline workflows, and improve productivity with remarkable precision. Now available on Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Opus 4 offers unparalleled support for coding, debugging, and collaborative agent tasks.Starting Price: $15 / 1 million tokens (input) -
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Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.7 is the latest Anthropic AI model release designed to significantly improve performance in advanced software engineering and complex problem-solving tasks. It builds upon the previous Opus 4.6 model by delivering stronger results on difficult coding challenges and long-running workflows. The model is known for its ability to follow instructions precisely and verify its own outputs for greater reliability. It also introduces enhanced multimodal capabilities, particularly in processing high-resolution images with improved accuracy. Opus 4.7 supports more detailed visual tasks such as analyzing dense screenshots and extracting data from complex diagrams. In professional settings, it produces higher-quality outputs including documents, presentations, and user interfaces. The model includes updated safety features that detect and block high-risk cybersecurity-related requests.Starting Price: $5 per million tokens (input) -
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Muse Spark 1.3
Meta
Muse Spark 1.3 is an AI model with improved performance across agentic and coding tasks, designed to be smarter and more practical for real-world work. It sustains longer-horizon tasks by collaborating with users and managing multiple workflows in a single, long thread. Given an open-ended objective, it uses tools to build context across messy or conflicting sources, correct gaps in its plan, track what it has learned, and produce a final deliverable. It asks clarifying questions when prompts are ambiguous, requests help when stuck, and confirms before taking consequential actions. The model follows complex, long-form instructions more reliably, preserving detailed requirements across multi-step tasks without dropping constraints or drifting from the requested workflow. Improved multitasking allows it to map incoming prompts to the correct task even when users interrupt or redirect previous requests.Starting Price: $1.25 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Muse Wonder Full
Meta
Muse Wonder Full is an advanced artificial intelligence foundation model developed by Meta for complex reasoning, autonomous agent workflows, software engineering, and professional knowledge work. As part of the Muse Wonder model family, it is designed to handle demanding tasks that require sustained reasoning, contextual understanding, and multistep execution. The model incorporates Active Memory to retain important information across conversations and retrieve relevant context when needed. Its Active Focus capabilities support long-running assignments by exploring alternative approaches, resolving obstacles, and adapting to changing requirements. Muse Wonder Full also supports software development, legal and financial analysis, business workflow automation, and agentic interactions with external tools. The model is available to Muse Code subscribers and has been evaluated on benchmarks covering coding, memory, professional tasks, and general problem-solving capabilities.Starting Price: $50/month -
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Ultramarine 1 Flash
Paper Instruments
Ultramarine 1 Flash is a hosted large language model offered through an API for developers and organizations building AI-assisted professional workflows. It is designed for knowledge-work tasks across areas such as finance, law, consulting, and operations, including research, analysis, and preparation of document-based deliverables. Applications can send prompts and receive streamed or standard responses, use reasoning controls and custom tool calls, and request structured output. The API accepts image inputs and supports OpenAI-compatible chat-completion and Responses formats, as well as Anthropic Messages-compatible requests. Developers can connect through the OpenAI or Anthropic SDKs, Claude Agent SDK, or Claude Code, and can use the model with Paper Instruments' Word, PowerPoint, and Excel libraries. Usage is billed by tokens against a prepaid balance.Starting Price: $0.15/1M input tokens -
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash
MiniMax
MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a hosted large language model for developers building coding assistants, AI agents, and software applications. Available through MiniMax’s API and MiniMax Code, it accepts text, image, and video input and generates text responses. Documented uses include code generation and debugging, multi-step reasoning, tool use, codebase and document analysis, and computer-use workflows. The API offers a context window of up to 1 million tokens, adjustable reasoning effort, and OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible request formats. Usage is billed by input, output, and cached-input tokens. MiniMax provides documentation for API integration and model use. M3.1 Flash is available through the hosted API, M Plan, and MiniMax Code; model weights are planned for a later release.Starting Price: $0.15/1M input tokens
