Major AI models at a glance 08-Jul 23:58

OpenAI will launch GPT-5.6, its most advanced AI model, on Thursday after a delay prompted by U.S. government concerns over the potential national security risks posed by increasingly powerful AI systems.

The release comes amid ​intensifying competition among AI developers who are racing to improve model performance, cut costs and ‌expand capabilities for enterprise customers, fueling a wave of new systems and reasoning models across the industry.

Meanwhile, Chinese developers are reshaping the economics of AI by delivering increasingly capable models at a fraction of the cost.

Here's a look at some of the ​AI models on the market for consumers:

Here's a look at the AI models on the market for enterprises:
Company,Flagship model(s),API price,Includes OpenAI,GPT 5.5.,GPT-5.5 Pro and GPT-5.4 Pro, cost $30/$180 per million input/output tokens, offering advanced reasoning and a 272,000-token context window.,GPT-5.5 is for complex professional work, best suited to research, coding, document analysis ​and sophisticated workflows. Google,Gemini 3.5 Flash.,Gemini ​3.5 Flash costs $1.50/$9 per ⁠million input/output tokens, with search, grounding, caching.,Useful for coding, agentic workflows, research and complex, multi-step tasks combining advanced reasoning with a 1‑million‑token context window. Anthropic,Claude Fable 5.,Claude Fable ​5 costs $10/$50 per million input/output tokens, with a 1-million-token context window.,Built for long-running ​agents, complex ⁠reasoning, enterprise workflows and large-scale analysis for sophisticated, high-stakes tasks. xAI,Grok 4.3.,Grok 4.3 costs $1.25/$2.50 per million input/output tokens, with configurable reasoning capabilities.,Grok 4.3 excels in following instructions, agentic tool use and accuracy, making it well-suited to research, enterprise workflows ⁠and general-purpose ​applications. Meta,Llama 4 Scout and Maverick.,The model is open-weight and the ​API pricing depends on the hosting provider. Has a 10-million-token context window for Llama Scout.,Optimized for image and text understanding, delivering high intelligence, ​fast responses and cost-efficient performance for enterprise AI applications.