Model releases, pricing updates, and capability changes — 18 entries.
o3 pricing update
o3: input $10.00 → $2.00 /1M tokens, output $40.00 → $8.00 /1M tokens
Claude Haiku 4.5 pricing update
Claude Haiku 4.5: input $0.80 → $1.00 /1M tokens, output $4.00 → $5.00 /1M tokens
Mistral Large pricing update
Mistral Large: input $2.00 → $0.50 /1M tokens, output $6.00 → $1.50 /1M tokens
Codestral pricing update
Codestral: input $0.30 → $1.00 /1M tokens, output $0.90 → $3.00 /1M tokens
Claude Opus 4 pricing update
Claude Opus 4: input $15.00 → $5.00 /1M tokens, output $75.00 → $25.00 /1M tokens
GPT-5 pricing update
GPT-5: input $10.00 → $1.25 /1M tokens, output $30.00 → $10.00 /1M tokens
Claude Haiku 4.5 released
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5 as the fastest and most affordable Claude model.
GPT-5 input price reduced 20%
OpenAI cuts GPT-5 input pricing from $12.50 to $10 per 1M tokens.
GPT-5 released
OpenAI launches GPT-5, its frontier flagship with 400k context, tool calling, and image understanding.
Gemini 2 Flash price cut 50%
Google halves Gemini 2 Flash pricing to $0.10 input / $0.40 output per 1M tokens.
Claude Sonnet 4 released
Claude Sonnet 4 delivers strong performance at lower cost alongside Opus 4.
Claude Opus 4 released
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 with extended agentic capabilities.
Gemini 2 Pro and Flash released
Google releases Gemini 2 Pro with 2M context and Gemini 2 Flash for high-throughput use.
OpenAI o1 released
OpenAI releases o1, a reasoning-first model that uses chain-of-thought internally before answering.
Mistral Large updated — improved tool calling
Mistral Large receives improved function-calling reliability and larger context in the November 2024 update.
Codestral released
Mistral launches Codestral, a 22B code-specialized model with 256k context and FIM support.
GPT-4o released
OpenAI releases GPT-4o (omni), a faster multimodal model supporting text, image and audio.
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Llama 3 released (8B and 70B)
Meta releases Llama 3 in 8B and 70B sizes under the Llama 3 Community License.