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Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 on 24 July 2026 and OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra, Luna) on 9 July. For coding agents the two flagships cost almost the same on input and diverge on output, benchmarks and token
Three budget-tier models now sit far below the flagships: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite at $0.30/$2.50, GPT-5.6 Luna at $1/$6, and Claude Sonnet 5 at $2/$10 per million tokens. A worked cost comparison for high-volume
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 matches near-Fable-5 intelligence at 26% lower cost per task. A guide to the coding-agent benchmarks, the token economics, and when Opus 5 should be your default.
Google cut the Gemini Flash output rate from $9.00 to $7.50 per million tokens and made the model emit 17% fewer of them. Stack that against GPT-5.6 Luna at $1/$6 and Claude Sonnet 5's tokenizer change, and
Everyone compares Gemini 3.5 Pro with GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 off leaked specs. Here is the honest 2026 picture: official prices and benchmarks for what ships today, and why Gemini 3.5 Pro is not really out.
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 API launched at $1.25/$4.25 per million tokens, about a quarter of OpenAI and Anthropic rates. The real monthly cost math against GPT-5.6 and Claude, plus when switching your agents makes sense.
Three frontier models shipped within ten days of each other in mid-2026, at list prices that differ by 5x. The published price is not what you pay. Here is how to route workloads on evidence instead of vendor loyalty.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 shipped on July 9, 2026 in three tiers, Sol, Terra, and Luna, priced from $1 to $30 per million tokens. How to match each tier to coding, agent, and high-volume workloads by cost.
GPT-5.6 reached general availability on July 9, 2026 as three models: Sol at $5, Terra at $2.50 and Luna at $1 per million input tokens. How to pick the right tier for coding, agents and high-volume work.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra, Luna) went public on July 9, 2026, with Luna at $1/$6 per million tokens. We compare the new tiers to Claude Sonnet 5 and Gemini, and the levers that cut inference bills 60 to 80 percent.
Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5 on 30 June 2026; OpenAI made GPT-5.6 generally available on 9 July 2026. Here is how they compare on price, agentic benchmarks, availability and governance.
