Top LLM models as of July 2026 — capabilities, context, pricing.
| Model | Provider | Type | Context | Params | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Highlights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude 4 Opus | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | — | $15.00 | $75.00 | Deep reasoning, multi-step agents, code generation SOTA |
| GPT-5 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 256K | — | $10.00 | $40.00 | Multimodal (vision+audio), tool use, 99.9% uptime |
| Llama 4 405B | Meta | Open Source | 128K | 405B | $2.50 | $5.00 | Best open model, multilingual, strong reasoning |
| DeepSeek-V4 | DeepSeek | API | 128K | — | $1.25 | $5.00 | Best price/performance, MoE architecture, strong at code |
| Gemini 2.5 Ultra | Proprietary | 2M | — | $8.00 | $24.00 | Largest context window, multimodal, search grounding | |
| Qwen 3 72B | Alibaba | Open Source | 128K | 72B | $1.00 | $2.50 | Lightweight, multilingual, good for fine-tuning |
| Grok 4 | xAI | API | 128K | — | $5.00 | $15.00 | Real-time X data, humor, live search integration |
| Claude 4 Sonnet | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | — | $3.00 | $15.00 | Balanced speed/intelligence, ideal for production |
| Mistral Large 3 | Mistral | Open Source | 256K | 123B | $4.00 | $12.00 | European, strong multilingual, function calling |
| Yi 2.0 | 01.AI | API | 128K | — | $0.80 | $2.00 | Ultra-low cost, Chinese+English bilingual |