Best Foundation Models for Claude Code
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What are Foundation Models for Claude Code?
Foundation models are large-scale artificial intelligence models trained on vast and diverse datasets that serve as the underlying technology for a wide range of AI applications. These models learn general-purpose capabilities such as language understanding, reasoning, image recognition, code generation, speech processing, and multimodal comprehension, allowing them to be adapted or fine-tuned for specific tasks across industries. Foundation models power applications including chatbots, AI agents, search, content generation, software development, scientific research, and business automation. Many are available through cloud APIs, open-source distributions, and enterprise AI platforms, supporting custom model development, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and domain-specific optimization. By providing reusable, general-purpose intelligence, foundation models enable organizations to accelerate AI development, reduce implementation costs, and build sophisticated AI-powered applications. Compare and read user reviews of the best Foundation 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 -
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Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.6 is an advanced AI model developed by Anthropic, designed for high-level reasoning, coding, and knowledge work tasks. It introduces significant improvements in coding, debugging, and code review capabilities. The model can handle long, complex workflows and sustain agentic tasks with greater reliability. It features a 1 million token context window in beta, enabling it to process and retain large amounts of information. Claude Opus 4.6 is optimized for tasks such as financial analysis, research, and document creation. It also integrates with tools like Excel and PowerPoint for enhanced productivity. Overall, it is a state-of-the-art AI model built for complex, real-world professional applications. -
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Muse Spark
Meta
Muse Spark is a multimodal AI reasoning model developed by Meta as part of its push toward personal superintelligence. It integrates text, images, and tools to deliver advanced reasoning and interactive capabilities. The model supports features like visual chain-of-thought and multi-agent orchestration. Users can leverage Muse Spark for tasks such as problem-solving, content creation, and real-world troubleshooting. Its Contemplating mode enables multiple AI agents to reason in parallel for improved performance. Muse Spark also demonstrates strong capabilities in areas like health insights and visual understanding. Overall, it represents a significant step toward more intelligent and personalized AI systems. -
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Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, delivering significant upgrades across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, and knowledge work. It introduces a 1 million token context window in beta, allowing users to analyze entire codebases, lengthy contracts, or large research collections in a single session. The model demonstrates major improvements in instruction following, consistency, and reduced hallucinations compared to previous Sonnet versions. In developer testing, users strongly preferred Sonnet 4.6 over Sonnet 4.5 and even favored it over Opus 4.5 in many coding scenarios. Its enhanced computer-use capabilities enable it to interact with real software interfaces similarly to a human, improving automation for legacy systems without APIs. Sonnet 4.6 also performs strongly on major benchmarks, approaching Opus-level intelligence at a more accessible price point. -
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GLM-5
Z.ai
GLM-5 is Z.ai’s latest large language model built for complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks. It scales significantly beyond GLM-4.5, increasing total parameters and training data while integrating DeepSeek Sparse Attention to reduce deployment costs without sacrificing long-context capacity. The model combines enhanced pre-training with a new asynchronous reinforcement learning infrastructure called slime, improving training efficiency and post-training refinement. GLM-5 achieves best-in-class performance among open-source models across reasoning, coding, and agent benchmarks, narrowing the gap with leading frontier models. It ranks highly on evaluations such as Vending Bench 2, demonstrating strong long-term planning and operational capabilities. The model is open-sourced under the MIT License.Starting Price: Free -
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GLM-5.1
Z.ai
GLM-5.1 is the latest iteration of Z.ai’s GLM series, designed as a frontier-level, agent-oriented AI model optimized for coding, reasoning, and long-horizon workflows. It builds on the GLM-5 architecture, which uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) design to deliver high performance while keeping inference costs efficient, and is part of a broader push toward open-weight, developer-accessible models. A core focus of GLM-5.1 is enabling agentic behavior, meaning it can plan, execute, and iterate across multi-step tasks rather than simply responding to single prompts. It is specifically designed to handle complex workflows such as debugging code, navigating repositories, and executing chained operations with sustained context. Compared to earlier models, GLM-5.1 improves reliability in long interactions, maintaining coherence across extended sessions and reducing breakdowns in multi-step reasoning.Starting Price: Free
