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What are Foundation Models for Cursor?
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 Cursor currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Grok 4.6
SpaceXAI
Grok 4.6 is an xAI model designed for long-running agents, ambitious interactive projects, visual work, coding, research, and knowledge workflows. The model builds on Grok 4.5 with stronger support for multi-step tasks that require sustained reasoning across codebases, information analysis, application development, and work artifact creation. Grok 4.6 can help turn broad product ideas into working first versions by researching domains, structuring applications, implementing core interactions, and refining results through feedback. It is trained across agentic tasks such as knowledge work, general coding, kernel optimization, web development, computer-aided design, and other technical environments. The model is available in Cursor, Grok Build, the xAI API, and partners such as OpenRouter, Vercel, and Cloudflare. Built for developers, builders, and teams working on complex projects, Grok 4.6 helps accelerate coding, agentic workflows, visual applications, and technical execution.Starting Price: $2 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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Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google
Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google’s newest Flash model built for efficient, reliable, production-scale AI agents. The model improves on Gemini 3.5 Flash with stronger coding, knowledge work, multimodal performance, computer use, and agentic workflow execution. Gemini 3.6 Flash is designed to use fewer output tokens, take fewer reasoning steps, reduce unnecessary tool calls, and lower the cost of complex AI tasks. It supports document parsing, chart analysis, data analysis, report drafting, code migrations, visual understanding, and multi-agent orchestration. The model is available through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Android Studio, Google Antigravity, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Gemini Enterprise app, and the Gemini app. Built for developers and enterprises, Gemini 3.6 Flash helps teams build faster, lower-cost, and more capable AI agents across coding, analysis, productivity, and multimodal workloads.Starting Price: $1.50 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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Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google
Gemini 3.7 Flash is Google’s most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents, delivering substantial improvements across software engineering, knowledge work, web development, and complex business workflows. It shows stronger performance in debugging and issue resolution, higher first-pass code accuracy, and improved generation of production-ready code. For web development, the model creates more functional layouts and feature-complete applications in fewer prompts, with strong design adherence when working from screenshots, images, or complete design systems. In knowledge-dense fields such as finance, law, and biosciences, it provides improved reasoning, accuracy, and complex-document understanding. Gemini 3.7 Flash also performs more effectively on real-world workflow automation and multimodal tasks, supporting use cases ranging from interactive web experiences and data stories to robotics and dynamically generated 3D content.Starting Price: $0.75 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Grok 4.5
SpaceXAI
Grok 4.5 is SpaceXAI’s advanced AI model built for coding, agentic tasks, engineering work, and knowledge-intensive productivity. The model is trained on coding, science, engineering, and math data, with reinforcement learning focused on multi-step software engineering and technical workflows. It is designed to handle real-world development tasks such as debugging, Rust and C/C++ work, terminal tasks, long-running agentic rollouts, and end-to-end app creation from a single prompt. Grok 4.5 is also built for fast serving, token efficiency, and lower-cost execution, with pricing based on input and output token usage. Beyond coding, the model supports business productivity tasks in Grok Build, including Excel modeling, PowerPoint diagram creation, Word writing, and research-assisted office workflows. Available through Grok Build, Cursor, and the SpaceXAI API console, Grok 4.5 gives developers and teams a high-performance model for building software, automating work, and more.Starting Price: $2 per million input tokens -
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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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GPT-5.6 Luna
OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Luna is the fast and affordable model in OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 series, built to bring strong capability to users and developers who need practical intelligence with lower overhead. In the new GPT-5.6 naming system, the number identifies the model generation, while Sol, Terra, and Luna identify durable capability tiers that can advance on their own cadence, giving people and developers clearer choices across intelligence, speed, and cost. Luna sits alongside Sol, the flagship model, and Terra, the balanced model for everyday work, as part of a family designed for broader access to next-generation AI. During the limited preview, GPT-5.6 models are initially available through the API and Codex to a select group of trusted partners and organizations, with plans for broader availability in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API. OpenAI developed GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna with its most robust safeguards to date, with configurations matched to each model’s capabilities.Starting Price: $0.20 per 1M tokens (input) -
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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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GPT-5.6 Terra
OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Terra is a balanced model in the GPT-5.6 series designed for everyday work, coding, agentic workflows, cybersecurity support, biology analysis, and enterprise automation. It sits between GPT-5.6 Sol, the flagship model, and GPT-5.6 Luna, the faster and lower-cost option. Terra is positioned to deliver competitive performance to GPT-5.5 while being significantly cheaper to run. The model supports improved reasoning, coding, tool coordination, long-horizon workflows, and legitimate defensive security work. It is part of a model family built with layered safeguards, including trained refusals, real-time misuse classifiers, account-level review, differentiated access, monitoring, and continued red-team testing. GPT-5.6 Terra helps developers, enterprises, and technical teams access strong AI capabilities with a more practical balance of intelligence, speed, and cost.Starting Price: $2 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Gemini 3.5 Pro
Google
Gemini 3.5 Pro is Google’s anticipated next-generation Pro model in the Gemini 3.5 series, designed for advanced reasoning, coding, multimodal understanding, and agentic workflows. It is expected to build on Google’s Gemini 3 family with stronger performance for complex tasks that require planning, context handling, tool use, and deep problem solving. The model is aimed at users who need more power than faster Flash models for demanding development, research, automation, and enterprise AI use cases. Gemini 3.5 Pro is expected to support sophisticated workflows across text, code, files, multimodal inputs, and connected tools. Developers and organizations will likely use it through Google’s AI platforms for building assistants, agents, coding tools, analysis systems, and productivity applications. As an upcoming Pro-tier model, Gemini 3.5 Pro is positioned for high-value workloads where accuracy, reasoning quality, and advanced task execution matter more than maximum speed. -
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Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google
Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google’s latest frontier AI model designed to combine advanced intelligence, high-speed performance, and agentic workflow execution for developers, enterprises, and everyday users. Built as part of the Gemini 3.5 family, the model excels at coding, long-horizon reasoning, multimodal understanding, and complex multi-step automation tasks while delivering significantly faster output speeds than many competing frontier models. Gemini 3.5 Flash powers AI agents capable of planning, executing, and managing workflows such as application development, codebase maintenance, data analysis, and financial document preparation through the Antigravity harness. The model also supports rich multimodal experiences by generating interactive graphics, dynamic web interfaces, animations, and advanced visual content. Gemini 3.5 Flash is integrated across Google products including the Gemini app, Google Search AI Mode, Google Antigravity, Google AI Studio, Android Studio, and more.Starting Price: $1.50 per 1M tokens (input) -
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GPT-5.5
OpenAI
GPT-5.5 is an advanced AI model designed to handle complex, real-world tasks with greater autonomy and efficiency. It quickly understands user intent and can execute multi-step workflows such as coding, research, data analysis, and document creation with minimal guidance. Instead of requiring step-by-step instructions, GPT-5.5 plans tasks, uses tools, evaluates outputs, and continues working until completion. It excels in knowledge work, software development, and analytical problem-solving, helping users move from idea to execution faster. The model is built to operate across tools and environments, making it highly effective for modern digital workflows. With strong reasoning and persistence, GPT-5.5 enables individuals and teams to complete demanding work more efficiently and accurately.Starting Price: $5 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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Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber
Google
Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a specialized cyber-focused model built on Gemini 3.5 Flash and fine-tuned to find, validate, and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities efficiently at scale. It is designed for defensive security workflows where organizations need to identify critical weaknesses faster and generate reliable patches before those issues can be exploited. Flash’s combination of performance and efficiency makes it a strong foundation for scanning code, reasoning about security flaws, validating whether findings are real, and proposing targeted remediations across large software environments. Within CodeMender, multiple Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber agents work together and combine their findings into a single report, helping the system investigate vulnerabilities from different angles and improve the quality of the final result. This coordinated agent setup delivers competitive frontier performance on CyberGym, a benchmark for evaluating cybersecurity capabilities. -
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GPT-4
OpenAI
GPT-4 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4) is a large-scale unsupervised language model, yet to be released by OpenAI. GPT-4 is the successor to GPT-3 and part of the GPT-n series of natural language processing models, and was trained on a dataset of 45TB of text to produce human-like text generation and understanding capabilities. Unlike most other NLP models, GPT-4 does not require additional training data for specific tasks. Instead, it can generate text or answer questions using only its own internally generated context as input. GPT-4 has been shown to be able to perform a wide variety of tasks without any task specific training data such as translation, summarization, question answering, sentiment analysis and more.Starting Price: $0.0200 per 1000 tokens -
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GPT-3.5
OpenAI
GPT-3.5 is the next evolution of GPT 3 large language model from OpenAI. GPT-3.5 models can understand and generate natural language. We offer four main models with different levels of power suitable for different tasks. The main GPT-3.5 models are meant to be used with the text completion endpoint. We also offer models that are specifically meant to be used with other endpoints. Davinci is the most capable model family and can perform any task the other models can perform and often with less instruction. For applications requiring a lot of understanding of the content, like summarization for a specific audience and creative content generation, Davinci is going to produce the best results. These increased capabilities require more compute resources, so Davinci costs more per API call and is not as fast as the other models.Starting Price: $0.0200 per 1000 tokens -
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Claude Sonnet 3.5
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 3.5 sets new industry benchmarks for graduate-level reasoning (GPQA), undergraduate-level knowledge (MMLU), and coding proficiency (HumanEval). It shows marked improvement in grasping nuance, humor, and complex instructions, and is exceptional at writing high-quality content with a natural, relatable tone. Claude Sonnet 3.5 operates at twice the speed of Claude Opus 3. This performance boost, combined with cost-effective pricing, makes Claude Sonnet 3.5 ideal for complex tasks such as context-sensitive customer support and orchestrating multi-step 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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GPT-4.1
OpenAI
GPT-4.1 is an advanced AI model from OpenAI, designed to enhance performance across key tasks such as coding, instruction following, and long-context comprehension. With a large context window of up to 1 million tokens, GPT-4.1 can process and understand extensive datasets, making it ideal for tasks like software development, document analysis, and AI agent workflows. Available through the API, GPT-4.1 offers significant improvements over previous models, excelling at real-world applications where efficiency and accuracy are crucial.Starting Price: $2 per 1M tokens (input) -
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Gemini 3 Pro
Google
Gemini 3 Pro is Google’s most advanced multimodal AI model, built for developers who want to bring ideas to life with intelligence, precision, and creativity. It delivers breakthrough performance across reasoning, coding, and multimodal understanding—surpassing Gemini 2.5 Pro in both speed and capability. The model excels in agentic workflows, enabling autonomous coding, debugging, and refactoring across entire projects with long-context awareness. With superior performance in image, video, and spatial reasoning, Gemini 3 Pro powers next-generation applications in development, robotics, XR, and document intelligence. Developers can access it through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, or Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, integrating seamlessly into existing tools and IDEs. Whether generating code, analyzing visuals, or building interactive apps from a single prompt, Gemini 3 Pro represents the future of intelligent, multimodal AI development.Starting Price: $19.99/month -
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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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Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4, the latest evolution of Anthropic’s language models, offers a significant upgrade in coding, reasoning, and performance. Designed for diverse use cases, Sonnet 4 builds upon the success of its predecessor, Claude Sonnet 3.7, delivering more precise responses and better task execution. With a state-of-the-art 72.7% performance on the SWE-bench, it stands out in agentic scenarios, offering enhanced steerability and clear reasoning capabilities. Whether handling software development, multi-feature app creation, or complex problem-solving, Claude Sonnet 4 ensures higher code quality, reduced errors, and a smoother development process.Starting Price: $3 / 1 million tokens (input) -
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Grok 4
SpaceXAI
Grok 4 is the latest AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, marking a significant advancement in AI reasoning and natural language understanding. Developed on the Colossus supercomputer, Grok 4 supports multimodal inputs including text and images, with plans to add video capabilities soon. It features enhanced precision in language tasks and has demonstrated superior performance in scientific reasoning and visual problem-solving compared to other leading AI models. Designed for developers, researchers, and technical users, Grok 4 offers powerful tools for complex tasks. The model incorporates improved moderation to address previous concerns about biased or problematic outputs. Grok 4 represents a major leap forward in AI’s ability to understand and generate human-like responses. -
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Grok 4.1 Fast
SpaceXAI
Grok 4.1 Fast is an xAI model designed to deliver advanced tool-calling capabilities with a massive 2-million-token context window. It excels at complex real-world tasks such as customer support, finance, troubleshooting, and dynamic agent workflows. The model pairs seamlessly with the new Agent Tools API, which enables real-time web search, X search, file retrieval, and secure code execution. This combination gives developers the power to build fully autonomous, production-grade agents that plan, reason, and use tools effectively. Grok 4.1 Fast is trained with long-horizon reinforcement learning, ensuring stable multi-turn accuracy even across extremely long prompts. With its speed, cost-efficiency, and high benchmark scores, it sets a new standard for scalable enterprise-grade AI agents. -
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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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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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Grok 4.3
SpaceXAI
Grok 4.3 is the latest iteration of xAI’s Grok model, designed to deliver improved reasoning, real-time information access, and advanced task automation. It builds on earlier Grok 4 models by enhancing performance in complex problem-solving, coding, and analytical workflows. The model is integrated with real-time web and X (formerly Twitter) data, allowing it to provide up-to-date insights and answers. Grok 4.3 supports multimodal capabilities, enabling it to work with text, images, and other data types. It operates within the SuperGrok Heavy tier, offering access to more powerful compute and advanced features. The model is designed to handle long-context tasks and multi-step reasoning with greater accuracy. It also supports tool use and integrations, enabling it to interact with external systems and automate workflows. Overall, Grok 4.3 is positioned as a high-performance AI assistant for real-time, data-driven tasks. -
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GPT-5.5 Pro
OpenAI
GPT-5.5 Pro is an advanced AI model designed to handle complex, real-world work with greater autonomy and efficiency. It understands user intent quickly and can execute multi-step tasks such as coding, research, data analysis, and document creation with minimal guidance. The model is built to plan, use tools, and refine its outputs until tasks are complete. It excels in knowledge work, software development, and analytical problem-solving. With strong reasoning and persistence, GPT-5.5 Pro can manage long-running workflows across tools and systems. It delivers high-quality results while maintaining speed and efficiency. Overall, it enables individuals and teams to complete demanding tasks faster and more accurately.Starting Price: $30 per 1M tokens (input)
