OpenRouter is a unified API gateway providing access to 500+ AI models from 60+ providers through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Developers can seamlessly switch between GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and more without managing multiple API keys. Features include provider fallback, cost optimization, free tier access, and a built-in chat interface for model experimentation with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing.

Grok 4.6 is xAI's flagship large language model, built for developers and teams running long-horizon agents, coding workflows, and knowledge work. Released on August 12, 2026, it is the default model inside Grok Build and the coding agent, and it is available through the xAI API, Cursor, OpenRouter, Vercel, and Cloudflare. The model carries roughly 1.5 trillion parameters and runs at about 80 t...

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba's flagship large language model and the largest open-weight release to date, built for developers and enterprises that want frontier-level multimodal reasoning without per-seat vendor lock-in. Tongyi Lab shipped it on August 3, 2026, with the full 2.4-trillion-parameter weights (about 95B active per token) scheduled to open-source the following week. It runs a 1M-token co...

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open mixture-of-experts model from NVIDIA built for always-on AI agent workloads. It targets platform teams and enterprises that run high-volume agent loops and want a small, customizable model to handle routine tool calls instead of spending frontier-model tokens. Core Features 30-billion-parameter MoE with only 3 billion active parameters per token, deliver...

Gemini 3.7 Flash is a low-cost coding and agent model from Google for developers who want fast, cheap model access without paying premium rates. Released on 13 August 2026, it is the third Flash-tier iteration in three weeks and is built on Gemini 3.6 Flash with a reworked reasoning core tuned for software engineering and autonomous workflows. Core Features A one-million-token context window wi...

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the production-grade flagship from DeepSeek, the lab behind the open-weight V-series. The 0813 build left preview on August 12, 2026 and is now the stable model behind the deepseek-v4-pro API endpoint, aimed at developers and enterprises running long-context coding and agentic workloads. Core Features Mixture-of-experts architecture with 1.6 trillion total parameters and 49 b...

Inkling is Thinking Machines Lab's open-weight, multimodal foundation model built for fine-tuning by enterprises and developers who want to own and reshape a frontier-grade model instead of renting one. Released on July 15, 2026 by Mira Murati's lab, it is a 975-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts system under the Apache 2.0 license, with weights on Hugging Face. Core Features 975B MoE with 41...

Shieldstral is Mistral AI's 3B open-weight safety classifier for developers and trust-and-safety teams who need policy-adaptive moderation of text and images. Mistral released Shieldstral 1.0 on 4 August 2026 under Apache 2.0, and the design trick is that your policy is an input at inference rather than a taxonomy baked into the weights. Core Features Moderation framed as binary question answer...

Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google's token-efficient workhorse AI model for scaled coding, knowledge work, and multimodal tasks, released on July 21, 2026. It is aimed at developers and enterprises running high-volume agentic workloads who need strong performance without premium per-token cost. The model keeps a one-million-token context window while using about 17 percent fewer output tokens than its ...

Ling 3.0 Tiny is a lightweight open-source mixture-of-experts model from ANT Group's Ling team, built for developers who want to run capable AI agents locally on a laptop or workstation instead of a cloud GPU cluster. Released on Hugging Face and ModelScope on August 11, 2026, it targets small, reasoning-capable models that stay resident and call tools on device. Core Features 7.9B total parame...

WeatherNext 2 is Google DeepMind's cyclone-forecasting foundation model, released in early August 2026 as part of the WeatherNext family. Earlier WeatherNext models already beat traditional numerical weather prediction on speed; version 2 sharpens the hardest case - tropical cyclones - and it is built for physical-AI prediction from lower-resolution input data. It continues Google DeepMind's li...

Generate pixel-perfect 3D assets from any 2D image in seconds. Open-source image-to-3D model with PBR textures and GLB export.

Xiaomi XR-1 is an open-weights vision-language-action robotics model for research labs and hardware startups building embodied agents. Xiaomi Robotics published the 34B-parameter model with weights on Hugging Face and code on GitHub, trained on more than 100,000 hours of real-world manipulation trajectories rather than simulation alone. Core Features A 34B-parameter vision-language-action desig...

DeepSeek V4-Flash is the cheap, high-throughput half of DeepSeek's V4 model family, a 1M-context model aimed at developers running long agent loops and coding agents where a single task can trigger hundreds of model calls. The V4-Flash-0731 checkpoint landed on Hugging Face and the API entered public beta on 31 July 2026. It is a 284B-parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates only 13B p...

Grok 4.5 is xAI's flagship reasoning model, released on July 8, 2026, and built for developers, AI agents, and knowledge workers rather than casual chat. Co-developed with the Cursor coding editor and trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs, it is positioned as an 'Opus-class' model that is faster, more token-efficient, and cheaper than rivals such as Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's...

GPT-5.6 is OpenAI's frontier model family, released on July 9, 2026, and available in ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API. It ships in three durable capability tiers — Sol (flagship), Terra (balanced), and Luna (fastest and cheapest) — so teams can match cost to task instead of paying flagship rates for everything. GPT-5.6 is aimed at developers, enterprises, and power users who need strong reas...

GLM-5.2 is Z.ai's open-weights reasoning model, released in June 2026, aimed at developers and enterprises that need long-horizon coding, agent workflows, and document-heavy pipelines without locking into a closed API. It pairs a 1-million-token context window with MIT-licensed weights you can self-host or call through more than 20 providers. Core Features A Mixture-of-Experts transformer with ...

Muse Spark 1.1 is Meta AI's newest frontier model and its first paid developer API, launched in July 2026. It targets builders and enterprises who want a long-context, agentic coding and research model that can run subagents, control a computer across desktop, browser, and mobile, and tackle benchmark-hard tasks. Core Features A 1,000,000-token context window that lets the model hold entire cod...

SenseNova U1 Pro is SenseTime's flagship native multimodal agent foundation model, built for teams that need an AI system to finish long, multi-step creative and operational tasks rather than just generate one-off assets. Released at WAIC on July 18, 2026, it targets enterprises and developers who are tired of re-rolling every image or video prompt and want consistent, delivery-ready output. If...

Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter flagship model, released July 16, 2026, and the first open-weight model in the three-trillion class, built for developers and enterprises creating coding agents, research tools, and long-context applications. It is closer to an agent engine than a chat assistant, designed to use tools and finish complex work with less supervision. Core Features 2....