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Two frontier models arrived at exactly the same list price, and OpenAI's own benchmark table and the independent index disagree on which one leads.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra tops computer use, coding, and math benchmarks. Full breakdown of features, scores vs Claude and Gemini, pricing, and how to access it.

Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 improves agentic workflows and coding, using ~20% fewer tool calls and ~25% fewer tokens than 1.2, with a 1M context window.

Google's third Flash release in six weeks pushes coding and agentic reasoning at the same low price as 3.7 Flash, plus a dedicated cybersecurity variant.

Fable 5.1 holds Fable 5's list price but cuts cache reads 75%, and it now leads Claude Opus 5 on every benchmark Anthropic published.

Z.ai's and Alibaba's newest models compete for the same segment. GLM-5.3-Flash leads shared coding benches and is live; Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is the lightweight Qwen4 preview with a queued API.

Grok 4.6 undercuts Claude Opus 5 at $2/$6 versus $5/$25, but Opus 5 still leads knowledge-work Elo and our aurora shader test. Here's who should use which.

Z.ai's cost-optimized GLM-5.3-Flash (Ox Alpha) lands near-frontier coding and agentic scores at roughly a tenth of the price of GLM-5.3.

Grok 4.6 and GPT-5.6 Sol score the same 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, so the real decision is about cost shape, context size, and turns per task.

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is Alibaba's open-weight 125B MoE model previewing the Qwen4 architecture. It beats Claude Opus 4.6 Max on most coding and agent benchmarks.

SpaceXAI's new model, Grok 4.6, matches GPT-5.6 Sol's Intelligence Index score at a lower measured price. See benchmarks, agent features, pricing, and how it compares with Grok 4.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash targets coding and agentic workflows at half the launch price of 3.6 Flash. Here's what's new, the benchmarks, and where it fits.