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  "dataset": "nexora-aero/atlas",
  "version": "2026.05.27.1",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-05-27T09:00:00Z",
  "license": "CC0-1.0",
  "source": "https://github.com/nexora-aero/atlas",
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    {"id":"gpt-5-5","name":"GPT-5.5","vendor":"OpenAI","vendorSlug":"openai","status":"announced","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":8.00,"outPrice":24.00,"ctx":512000,"cutoff":"2026-08","caps":["reasoning","vision","audio","tools","code"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"eta":"Q4 2026","strengths":["2× longer context vs GPT-5","Lower price than GPT-5","Native real-time voice"],"weaknesses":["Pricing & capabilities preliminary"],"source":"https://platform.openai.com/docs/models"},
    {"id":"gpt-5-5-omni","name":"GPT-5.5 Omni","vendor":"OpenAI","vendorSlug":"openai","status":"expected","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":12.00,"outPrice":36.00,"ctx":512000,"cutoff":"tbd","caps":["reasoning","vision","audio","video","tools","code"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"eta":"Early 2027","strengths":["First true any-to-any multimodal","Real-time video understanding","Audio synthesis built-in"],"weaknesses":["Not yet announced — based on industry signals"],"source":"https://openai.com"},
    {"id":"o3","name":"o3","vendor":"OpenAI","vendorSlug":"openai","status":"ga","modality":"text","inPrice":20.00,"outPrice":60.00,"ctx":256000,"cutoff":"2025-10","caps":["reasoning","tools","code"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2025,"strengths":["Highest reasoning depth available","Chain-of-thought transparent"],"weaknesses":["Slow (deliberate thinking)","No vision"],"source":"https://platform.openai.com/docs/models"},
    {"id":"o4","name":"o4","vendor":"OpenAI","vendorSlug":"openai","status":"announced","modality":"text","inPrice":18.00,"outPrice":54.00,"ctx":512000,"cutoff":"tbd","caps":["reasoning","tools","code","vision"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"eta":"Q3 2026","strengths":["Reasoning + vision combined","Improved long-horizon planning"],"weaknesses":["Pricing preliminary"],"source":"https://platform.openai.com/docs/models"},

    {"id":"claude-opus-4-5","name":"Claude Opus 4.5","vendor":"Anthropic","vendorSlug":"anthropic","status":"ga","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":15.00,"outPrice":75.00,"ctx":200000,"cutoff":"2026-04","caps":["reasoning","vision","tools","code"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"featured":true,"strengths":["Best at code (SWE-bench leader)","Long-horizon planning","Safety-aligned"],"weaknesses":["Expensive output tokens","No audio I/O"],"source":"https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models"},
    {"id":"claude-opus-4-7","name":"Claude Opus 4.7","vendor":"Anthropic","vendorSlug":"anthropic","status":"announced","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":14.00,"outPrice":70.00,"ctx":400000,"cutoff":"2026-09","caps":["reasoning","vision","audio","tools","code"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"eta":"Q4 2026","strengths":["2× context vs Opus 4.5","First Claude with audio I/O","Faster reasoning at same accuracy"],"weaknesses":["Preliminary pricing"],"source":"https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models"},
    {"id":"claude-sonnet-4-5","name":"Claude Sonnet 4.5","vendor":"Anthropic","vendorSlug":"anthropic","status":"ga","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":3.00,"outPrice":15.00,"ctx":200000,"cutoff":"2026-04","caps":["vision","tools","code"],"tier":"workhorse","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"featured":true,"strengths":["Best workhorse for coding","Tool-use reliability","Available on AWS Bedrock + Vertex"],"weaknesses":["Output tokens pricier than Gemini Flash"],"source":"https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models"},
    {"id":"claude-sonnet-4-7","name":"Claude Sonnet 4.7","vendor":"Anthropic","vendorSlug":"anthropic","status":"announced","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":2.50,"outPrice":12.00,"ctx":400000,"cutoff":"2026-09","caps":["vision","audio","tools","code"],"tier":"workhorse","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"eta":"Q4 2026","strengths":["Workhorse with Opus 4.5 coding quality","Cheaper than Sonnet 4.5"],"weaknesses":["Preliminary pricing"],"source":"https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models"},
    {"id":"claude-haiku-4-5","name":"Claude Haiku 4.5","vendor":"Anthropic","vendorSlug":"anthropic","status":"ga","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":0.80,"outPrice":4.00,"ctx":200000,"cutoff":"2026-04","caps":["vision","tools","code"],"tier":"workhorse","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"strengths":["Cheapest Claude","Sub-second TTFT","Vision included at this price tier"],"weaknesses":["Weaker on long reasoning chains"],"source":"https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models"},

    {"id":"gemini-2-5-pro","name":"Gemini 2.5 Pro","vendor":"Google","vendorSlug":"google","status":"ga","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":1.25,"outPrice":10.00,"ctx":2000000,"cutoff":"2026-04","caps":["reasoning","vision","audio","tools","code"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"featured":true,"strengths":["2M context (largest mainstream)","Native multimodal","Best $/token at frontier tier"],"weaknesses":["Inconsistent on niche reasoning","Vendor-managed tools only"],"source":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini"},
    {"id":"gemini-3-0-pro","name":"Gemini 3.0 Pro","vendor":"Google","vendorSlug":"google","status":"announced","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":1.50,"outPrice":12.00,"ctx":5000000,"cutoff":"2026-10","caps":["reasoning","vision","audio","video","tools","code"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"eta":"Q4 2026","strengths":["5M context window","Native video understanding","Real-time multimodal streaming"],"weaknesses":["Preliminary pricing"],"source":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini"},
    {"id":"gemini-2-5-flash","name":"Gemini 2.5 Flash","vendor":"Google","vendorSlug":"google","status":"ga","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":0.30,"outPrice":2.50,"ctx":1000000,"cutoff":"2026-04","caps":["vision","audio","tools","code"],"tier":"workhorse","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"featured":true,"strengths":["1M context at workhorse price","Audio + vision native","Fast"],"weaknesses":["Hallucinations on long-context retrieval"],"source":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini"},
    {"id":"gemini-3-0-flash","name":"Gemini 3.0 Flash","vendor":"Google","vendorSlug":"google","status":"announced","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":0.25,"outPrice":2.00,"ctx":2000000,"cutoff":"2026-10","caps":["vision","audio","video","tools","code"],"tier":"workhorse","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"eta":"Q4 2026","strengths":["Cheaper than Flash 2.5 at 2× context","Native video","Workhorse latency"],"weaknesses":["Preliminary pricing"],"source":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini"},

    {"id":"grok-4-heavy","name":"Grok 4 Heavy","vendor":"xAI","vendorSlug":"xai","status":"ga","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":20.00,"outPrice":60.00,"ctx":256000,"cutoff":"live","caps":["reasoning","vision","tools","code"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"strengths":["Live X (Twitter) data integration","Multi-agent reasoning","No content filter (raw answers)"],"weaknesses":["Premium tier only","Limited regional availability"],"source":"https://x.ai/api"},
    {"id":"grok-4","name":"Grok 4","vendor":"xAI","vendorSlug":"xai","status":"ga","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":5.00,"outPrice":15.00,"ctx":256000,"cutoff":"live","caps":["vision","tools","code"],"tier":"workhorse","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"strengths":["Live web data","Raw uncensored answers"],"weaknesses":["No EU region","Smaller ecosystem"],"source":"https://x.ai/api"},
    {"id":"grok-5","name":"Grok 5","vendor":"xAI","vendorSlug":"xai","status":"expected","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":6.00,"outPrice":18.00,"ctx":512000,"cutoff":"live","caps":["reasoning","vision","audio","tools","code"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2027,"eta":"2027","strengths":["Audio I/O","2× context"],"weaknesses":["Not officially announced — based on industry signals"],"source":"https://x.ai/"},

    {"id":"deepseek-v3-5","name":"DeepSeek V3.5","vendor":"DeepSeek","vendorSlug":"deepseek","status":"ga","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":0.27,"outPrice":1.10,"ctx":128000,"cutoff":"2026-03","caps":["vision","tools","code"],"tier":"open","license":"MIT","releaseYear":2026,"featured":true,"strengths":["Cheapest credible frontier-class","MIT license (commercial free)","Self-hostable on 8×H200"],"weaknesses":["No formal SLA on hosted API","China-based hosting (review compliance)"],"source":"https://platform.deepseek.com/"},
    {"id":"deepseek-v4","name":"DeepSeek V4","vendor":"DeepSeek","vendorSlug":"deepseek","status":"announced","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":0.30,"outPrice":1.20,"ctx":256000,"cutoff":"2026-08","caps":["reasoning","vision","tools","code"],"tier":"open","license":"MIT","releaseYear":2026,"eta":"Q3 2026","strengths":["First open-weight reasoning model at scale","2× context","Still cheapest tier"],"weaknesses":["Preliminary pricing"],"source":"https://platform.deepseek.com/"},
    {"id":"deepseek-r1","name":"DeepSeek R1","vendor":"DeepSeek","vendorSlug":"deepseek","status":"ga","modality":"text","inPrice":0.55,"outPrice":2.19,"ctx":128000,"cutoff":"2025-12","caps":["reasoning","tools","code"],"tier":"open","license":"MIT","releaseYear":2025,"strengths":["Open-weight reasoning model","60% cheaper than o3","Reasoning traces inspectable"],"weaknesses":["No vision","Slower than GPT-5-mini"],"source":"https://platform.deepseek.com/"},
    {"id":"deepseek-r2","name":"DeepSeek R2","vendor":"DeepSeek","vendorSlug":"deepseek","status":"announced","modality":"text","inPrice":0.65,"outPrice":2.50,"ctx":256000,"cutoff":"2026-08","caps":["reasoning","tools","code"],"tier":"open","license":"MIT","releaseYear":2026,"eta":"Q3 2026","strengths":["Open-weight reasoning — next gen","Approaches o3 on benchmarks","2× context"],"weaknesses":["Preliminary pricing"],"source":"https://platform.deepseek.com/"},

    {"id":"llama-4-behemoth","name":"Llama 4 Behemoth","vendor":"Meta","vendorSlug":"meta","status":"ga","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":0,"outPrice":0,"ctx":1000000,"cutoff":"2026-02","caps":["reasoning","vision","tools","code"],"tier":"open","license":"Llama 4 Community","releaseYear":2026,"strengths":["Self-host only — zero per-token cost","1M context","Multimodal natively"],"weaknesses":["Requires 16× H200 to serve","License has scale clause (>700M MAU)"],"source":"https://llama.meta.com/"},
    {"id":"llama-5","name":"Llama 5","vendor":"Meta","vendorSlug":"meta","status":"expected","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":0,"outPrice":0,"ctx":2000000,"cutoff":"tbd","caps":["reasoning","vision","audio","tools","code"],"tier":"open","license":"Llama Community v5","releaseYear":2027,"eta":"2027","strengths":["Expected to ship with audio modality","2M context","Continues open-weights commitment"],"weaknesses":["Not officially announced — based on roadmap leaks"],"source":"https://llama.meta.com/"},

    {"id":"qwen-3-max","name":"Qwen 3 Max","vendor":"Alibaba","vendorSlug":"alibaba","status":"ga","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":1.40,"outPrice":6.00,"ctx":128000,"cutoff":"2026-01","caps":["reasoning","vision","tools","code"],"tier":"open","license":"Apache 2.0","releaseYear":2026,"strengths":["Apache 2.0 — no scale clauses","Strong on Chinese-language tasks","Tool-use trained"],"weaknesses":["English benchmarks lag GPT-5"],"source":"https://qwenlm.github.io/"},
    {"id":"qwen-4","name":"Qwen 4","vendor":"Alibaba","vendorSlug":"alibaba","status":"announced","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":1.20,"outPrice":5.00,"ctx":256000,"cutoff":"2026-08","caps":["reasoning","vision","audio","tools","code"],"tier":"open","license":"Apache 2.0","releaseYear":2026,"eta":"Q3 2026","strengths":["Audio + larger context","Closing English benchmark gap"],"weaknesses":["Preliminary pricing"],"source":"https://qwenlm.github.io/"},

    {"id":"mistral-large-3","name":"Mistral Large 3","vendor":"Mistral","vendorSlug":"mistral","status":"ga","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":2.00,"outPrice":6.00,"ctx":128000,"cutoff":"2026-02","caps":["reasoning","vision","tools","code"],"tier":"open","license":"MRL + Apache (small)","releaseYear":2026,"strengths":["European hosting (data residency)","Strong on tool calling"],"weaknesses":["License restricts certain commercial uses"],"source":"https://mistral.ai/"},
    {"id":"mistral-large-4","name":"Mistral Large 4","vendor":"Mistral","vendorSlug":"mistral","status":"announced","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":1.80,"outPrice":5.50,"ctx":256000,"cutoff":"2026-09","caps":["reasoning","vision","tools","code"],"tier":"open","license":"MRL + Apache","releaseYear":2026,"eta":"Q4 2026","strengths":["EU sovereign","2× context vs Large 3","Cheaper"],"weaknesses":["Preliminary pricing"],"source":"https://mistral.ai/"},

    {"id":"command-r-plus","name":"Command R+ 2026","vendor":"Cohere","vendorSlug":"cohere","status":"ga","modality":"text","inPrice":2.50,"outPrice":10.00,"ctx":128000,"cutoff":"2026-02","caps":["tools","code"],"tier":"specialty","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"strengths":["RAG-optimized (citation-grounded)","Enterprise data residency (US/EU/CA)","No training on customer data"],"weaknesses":["No vision","Weaker on creative tasks"],"source":"https://cohere.com/"},

    {"id":"magic-ltm-3","name":"Magic LTM-3","vendor":"Magic","vendorSlug":"magic","status":"ga","modality":"text","inPrice":8.00,"outPrice":24.00,"ctx":100000000,"cutoff":"2026-03","caps":["code","reasoning"],"tier":"specialty","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"strengths":["100M token context (largest available)","Built for codebase-scale tasks","Recall stable at >50M tokens"],"weaknesses":["Premium tier only","No vision / audio","Limited rollout"],"source":"https://magic.dev/"},

    {"id":"gpt-5-mini","name":"GPT-5-mini","vendor":"OpenAI","vendorSlug":"openai","status":"ga","modality":"multimodal","inPrice":0.50,"outPrice":2.00,"ctx":256000,"cutoff":"2026-04","caps":["vision","tools","code"],"tier":"workhorse","license":"closed","releaseYear":2025,"featured":true,"strengths":["20× cheaper than GPT-5","Same context window","Excellent latency"],"weaknesses":["Drops off on multi-step reasoning","No audio"],"source":"https://platform.openai.com/docs/models"},

    {"id":"imagen-4-ultra","name":"Imagen 4 Ultra","vendor":"Google","vendorSlug":"google","status":"ga","modality":"image","perImage":0.06,"ctx":0,"cutoff":"2026-03","caps":["image-gen","text-render","control"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"featured":true,"strengths":["Photorealistic 2048×2048","Best-in-class text rendering","Native aspect ratio control"],"weaknesses":["No image editing","Watermarked output by default"],"source":"https://deepmind.google/technologies/imagen/"},
    {"id":"imagen-4","name":"Imagen 4","vendor":"Google","vendorSlug":"google","status":"ga","modality":"image","perImage":0.03,"ctx":0,"cutoff":"2026-03","caps":["image-gen","text-render"],"tier":"workhorse","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"strengths":["Half the price of Ultra","1024×1024","Fast"],"weaknesses":["Lower fidelity than Ultra"],"source":"https://deepmind.google/technologies/imagen/"},
    {"id":"dalle-4","name":"DALL·E 4","vendor":"OpenAI","vendorSlug":"openai","status":"announced","modality":"image","perImage":0.08,"ctx":0,"cutoff":"tbd","caps":["image-gen","edit","inpaint"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"eta":"Q4 2026","strengths":["Native edit + inpaint","Long-prompt fidelity","Style consistency"],"weaknesses":["Preliminary pricing"],"source":"https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/images"},
    {"id":"midjourney-v8","name":"Midjourney v8","vendor":"Midjourney","vendorSlug":"midjourney","status":"announced","modality":"image","perImage":0,"ctx":0,"cutoff":"tbd","caps":["image-gen","style-ref","character-ref"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"eta":"Q3 2026","subscriptionUSD":30,"strengths":["Best aesthetic quality","Character/style consistency","Subscription includes unlimited relax"],"weaknesses":["Subscription only — no API","Discord/web UI only"],"source":"https://www.midjourney.com/"},
    {"id":"flux-2-pro","name":"Flux 2 Pro","vendor":"Black Forest Labs","vendorSlug":"bfl","status":"ga","modality":"image","perImage":0.05,"ctx":0,"cutoff":"2026-04","caps":["image-gen","edit","control"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed (Pro) / Apache (Schnell)","releaseYear":2026,"strengths":["Open-weight Schnell variant","ControlNet built-in","API + self-host options"],"weaknesses":["Pro is closed, Schnell is open"],"source":"https://blackforestlabs.ai/"},
    {"id":"sdxl-turbo","name":"SDXL Turbo","vendor":"Stability AI","vendorSlug":"stability","status":"ga","modality":"image","perImage":0,"ctx":0,"cutoff":"2024-11","caps":["image-gen"],"tier":"open","license":"OpenRAIL-M","releaseYear":2024,"strengths":["Open weights — self-host","Runs on consumer GPU","Massive community LoRA library"],"weaknesses":["Older model — lower fidelity than 2026 frontier"],"source":"https://stability.ai/"},

    {"id":"sora-2","name":"Sora 2","vendor":"OpenAI","vendorSlug":"openai","status":"announced","modality":"video","perSecond":0.50,"ctx":0,"cutoff":"tbd","caps":["video-gen","extend","edit"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"eta":"Q3 2026","strengths":["Up to 60-second clips","1080p output","Physics-consistent motion"],"weaknesses":["Premium API tier only","Preliminary pricing"],"source":"https://openai.com/sora"},
    {"id":"veo-3","name":"Veo 3","vendor":"Google","vendorSlug":"google","status":"ga","modality":"video","perSecond":0.40,"ctx":0,"cutoff":"2026-04","caps":["video-gen","audio-sync","extend"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"featured":true,"strengths":["Native audio (dialogue + SFX)","Up to 8-second 1080p clips","Available on Vertex AI"],"weaknesses":["8-second cap","No reference-image extend yet"],"source":"https://deepmind.google/technologies/veo/"},
    {"id":"runway-gen-4","name":"Runway Gen-4","vendor":"Runway","vendorSlug":"runway","status":"ga","modality":"video","perSecond":0.30,"ctx":0,"cutoff":"2026-03","caps":["video-gen","img-to-video","camera-control"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"strengths":["Image-to-video","Camera path control","Established creative workflow"],"weaknesses":["10-second cap"],"source":"https://runwayml.com/"},
    {"id":"pika-2","name":"Pika 2.0","vendor":"Pika Labs","vendorSlug":"pika","status":"ga","modality":"video","perSecond":0.20,"ctx":0,"cutoff":"2026-02","caps":["video-gen","scene-ingredients"],"tier":"workhorse","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"strengths":["Cheapest credible video gen","Scene ingredients (object + character refs)"],"weaknesses":["Lower fidelity than Sora/Veo"],"source":"https://pika.art/"},

    {"id":"elevenlabs-v3","name":"ElevenLabs v3","vendor":"ElevenLabs","vendorSlug":"elevenlabs","status":"ga","modality":"audio","per1kChars":0.15,"ctx":0,"cutoff":"2026-04","caps":["voice-clone","tts","multilingual"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"strengths":["Best voice cloning quality","32 languages","Sub-300ms latency"],"weaknesses":["Per-character pricing scales with output"],"source":"https://elevenlabs.io/"},
    {"id":"suno-v5","name":"Suno v5","vendor":"Suno","vendorSlug":"suno","status":"announced","modality":"audio","perTrack":0.40,"ctx":0,"cutoff":"tbd","caps":["music-gen","vocals","stems"],"tier":"frontier","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"eta":"Q3 2026","strengths":["Full-song generation with vocals","Multi-stem output (vocal/drums/bass)","Up to 4-minute tracks"],"weaknesses":["Preliminary pricing"],"source":"https://suno.com/"},
    {"id":"openai-tts-2","name":"OpenAI Realtime 2","vendor":"OpenAI","vendorSlug":"openai","status":"ga","modality":"audio","per1kChars":0.12,"ctx":0,"cutoff":"2026-04","caps":["tts","stt","realtime"],"tier":"workhorse","license":"closed","releaseYear":2026,"strengths":["Bi-directional streaming","Low latency conversational","Tightly integrated with GPT-5"],"weaknesses":["English voices stronger than non-English"],"source":"https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/audio"}
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