Model releases, pricing shifts, benchmarks, and practical decisions for developers choosing what to build with next.
Claude Fable 5 went generally available on June 9, 2026. Three days later, Anthropic was forced to disable Claude Mythos 5 — its most capable model ever — following a directive from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Read the analysisScan the practical differences first, then select up to three models for a deeper side-by-side comparison.
| Model | Best for | Context | Access | Hardware | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic | Coding · Reasoning | 200K | API | Provider hosted | |
Claude 3 Haiku Anthropic | Coding · Fast answers | 200K | Free tier | Provider hosted | |
GPT-4o OpenAI | Vision · Reasoning | 128K | API | Provider hosted | |
Gemini 1.5 Pro Google | Long context · Vision | 1M | Free tier | Provider hosted | |
Llama 3.1 70B Meta | Offline · Coding | 128K | Local | 32GB RAM + GPU | |
Llama 3.1 8B Meta | Offline · Coding | 128K | Local | 8GB RAM | |
Mistral 7B Mistral AI | Offline · Coding | 32K | Local | 8GB RAM | |
Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B Alibaba | Offline · Coding | 32K | Local | 16GB RAM | |
DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek | Reasoning · Coding | 64K | Free tier | Provider hosted | |
Phi-3 Mini Microsoft | Offline | 128K | Local | 4GB RAM | |
Kimi k1.5 Moonshot AI | Reasoning · Coding | 128K | API | Provider hosted | |
CodeLlama 13B Meta | Offline · Coding | 16K | Local | 16GB RAM | |
Gemma 2 9B Google | Offline | 8K | Local | 8GB RAM | |
Claude Opus 4 Anthropic | Coding · Reasoning | 200K | API | Provider hosted |
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