AI model timeline
Releases, price changes, deprecations and retirements across every provider, as they happen.
Coming up
DeepSeek starts billing its Search and Fetch APIs per request
From 00:00 Beijing time on 1 November 2026, standalone Search and Fetch calls cost $0.75 per 1,000 requests. Calls made through DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code or Codex are currently free.
SourceGoogle publishes higher Gemini API prices for December 2026 and January 2027
Gemini 4 Argon prices double from 1 December 2026, and most other Gemini models double from 1 January 2027, on the standard paid tier. The changes are already shown as scheduled on each model page here.
SourcePrice change for Gemini 4 Argon
- Input $2.00 → $4.00 ▲ 100%
- Output $10.00 → $20.00 ▲ 100%
Google changes prices on 12 models
Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 3 Flash…
- Gemini 2.5 Flash
- Output $2.50 → $5.00 ▲ 100%
- Input $0.30 → $0.60 ▲ 100%
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
- Output $0.40 → $0.80 ▲ 100%
- Input $0.10 → $0.20 ▲ 100%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro
- Output $10.00 → $20.00 ▲ 100%
- Input $1.25 → $2.50 ▲ 100%
- Gemini 3 Flash
- Output $3.00 → $6.00 ▲ 100%
- Input $0.50 → $1.00 ▲ 100%
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
- Input $0.25 → $0.50 ▲ 100%
- Output $1.50 → $3.00 ▲ 100%
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- Input $0.30 → $0.60 ▲ 100%
- Output $2.50 → $5.00 ▲ 100%
- Gemini 3.6 Flash
- Output $3.75 → $7.50 ▲ 100%
- Input $0.75 → $1.50 ▲ 100%
- Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Output $3.75 → $7.50 ▲ 100%
- Input $0.75 → $1.50 ▲ 100%
- Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS
- Audio output (audio) $6.00 → $12.00 ▲ 100%
- Input (text) $0.50 → $1.00 ▲ 100%
- Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS
- Input (text) $0.50 → $1.00 ▲ 100%
- Audio output (audio) $9.00 → $18.00 ▲ 100%
- Gemini Omni Flash
- Input $1.50 → $3.00 ▲ 100%
- Output (video) $17.50 → $35.00 ▲ 100%
- Output $9.00 → $18.00 ▲ 100%
- Gemini Robotics ER 2
- Output $5.00 → $10.00 ▲ 100%
- Input $1.00 → $2.00 ▲ 100%
- Gemini 2.5 Flash
October 2026
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra Pro
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra
Language models
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro
Language models
Claude API version 2026-10-21 removes temperature, top_p and top_k
Requests that set these sampling parameters return an error on the new API version. Anthropic recommends steering behaviour through prompting instead. Earlier API versions already rejected non-default values on Claude 4.7 and later models.
SourceMeta released Muse Spark Open
Language models
Meta released Muse Wonder
Language models
Meta released Muse Wonder Full
Language models
DeepSeek released DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Language models
xAI released Grok Voice 3.0
Voice and realtime
Google released Nano Banana 2.1
Image generation
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5
Language models
Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4
Language models
Google released Gemini 4 Argon
Language models
September 2026
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol Pro
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol
Language models
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) released Qwen3.8 Max Prime
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-6 Luna Pro
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol Pro
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-6 Luna
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-Live 1
Voice and realtime
OpenAI released GPT-Image-2.5 Flare
Image generation
OpenAI released GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst
Image generation
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra Pro
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra
Language models
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) released Qwen3.8-Max
Language models
Meta released Muse Spark 1.3
Language models
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash
Language models
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS
Text to speech
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS
Text to speech
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live
Voice and realtime
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1
Language models
Google released Lyria 3.5
Music and sound
Anthropic released Claude Mythos 5.1
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5
Language models
xAI released Grok 4.7
Language models
Cohere released North Small Translate
Specialised
Claude Sonnet 5's $2 / $10 launch price becomes its standard price
Introduced as launch pricing through 31 August 2026, the $2 input and $10 output per million tokens is now permanent. The increase to $3 / $15 scheduled for 1 September 2026 will not happen.
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August 2026
DeepSeek released DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Language models
Mistral AI released Z.ai GLM 5.3 (on Mistral)
Language models
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) released Qwen3.8 27B
Language models
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash
Language models
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) released Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Language models
Meta released Muse Glimmer
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Cyber
Language models
Meta released Muse Spark 1.2
Language models
Google released Gemini Omni Flash
Language models
Google released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Speech to text
DeepSeek released DeepSeek V4 Pro
Language models
xAI released Grok 4.6
Language models
July 2026
DeepSeek released DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Language models
OpenAI renames Priority processing to the Fast tier
OpenAI's higher-speed processing option is now called the Fast tier, alongside the Standard, Batch, Flex and Ultrafast tiers.
SourceOpenAI released GPT-Transcribe
Speech to text
OpenAI released GPT-Live-Transcribe
Speech to text
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3
Language models
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Luna
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Terra
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-Realtime-2.1
Voice and realtime
Google released Gemini Robotics ER 2
Specialised
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash
Language models
Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5
Language models
Cohere released Cohere Transcribe Arabic
Speech to text
xAI released Grok 4.5
Language models
June 2026
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7 Code
Language models
Cohere released North Mini Code
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5
Language models
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) released Qwen3.7-Plus
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5
Language models
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite
Image generation
Anthropic released Claude Mythos 5
Language models
Google released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate
Voice and realtime
May 2026
OpenAI released GPT-Realtime-Translate
Voice and realtime
OpenAI released GPT-Realtime-Whisper
Speech to text
OpenAI released GPT-Realtime-2
Voice and realtime
OpenAI released Chat Latest
Language models
Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Language models
xAI released Grok Build 0.1
Language models
Cohere released Command A+
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8
Language models
April 2026
xAI released Grok 4.3
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.5
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 Pro
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-Image-2
Image generation
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7
Language models
Mistral AI released Mistral Medium 3.5
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Mythos Preview
Language models
Google released Gemini Embedding 2
Embeddings
March 2026
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 nano
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 Mini
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.4
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 Pro
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.3 Chat
Language models
Mistral AI released Mistral Small 4
Language models
xAI released Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning
Language models
xAI released Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent
Language models
Cohere released Cohere Transcribe
Speech to text
Google released Lyria 3 Clip
Music and sound
Google released Lyria 3 Pro
Music and sound
Mistral AI released Mistral Moderation 2
Moderation
Google released Veo 3.1 Lite
Video generation
Mistral AI released Voxtral TTS
Text to speech
xAI released Grok 4.20 Reasoning
Language models
February 2026
OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-Realtime-1.5
Voice and realtime
OpenAI released GPT-Audio-1.5
Voice and realtime
Cohere released Tiny Aya Global
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6
Language models
Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6
Language models
Google released Nano Banana 2
Image generation
January 2026
OpenAI released GPT-5.2-Codex
Language models
December 2025
OpenAI released GPT-Image-1.5
Image generation
OpenAI released chatgpt-image-latest
Image generation
OpenAI released GPT-5.2 Chat
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.2
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.2 Pro
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
Language models
Mistral AI released Ministral 3 8B
Language models
Google released Gemini 3 Flash
Language models
Mistral AI released Ministral 3 14B
Language models
Mistral AI released Ministral 3 3B
Language models
Mistral AI released Mistral Large 3
Language models
Mistral AI released Mistral OCR 3
Documents and OCR
Mistral AI released Devstral 2
Language models
November 2025
OpenAI released GPT-5.1
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.1 Chat
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.1-Codex
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5.1-Codex Mini
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5
Language models
Google released Nano Banana Pro
Image generation
October 2025
OpenAI released GPT-Audio Mini
Voice and realtime
OpenAI released GPT-Image-1 Mini
Image generation
OpenAI released GPT-5 Pro
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-Realtime Mini
Voice and realtime
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5
Language models
Google released Veo 3.1
Video generation
Google released Veo 3.1 Fast
Video generation
September 2025
OpenAI released GPT-5-Codex
Language models
Mistral AI released Magistral Small 1.2
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5
Language models
Mistral AI released Magistral Medium 1.2
Language models
August 2025
OpenAI released GPT-Audio
Voice and realtime
OpenAI released GPT-Realtime
Voice and realtime
OpenAI released GPT-5
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5 Mini
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5 nano
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-5 Chat
Language models
Mistral AI released Mistral Medium 3.1
Language models
OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b
Language models
OpenAI released gpt-oss-20b
Language models
Mistral AI released Codestral
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1
Language models
Cohere released Command A Reasoning
Language models
Cohere released Command A Translate
Specialised
Google released Nano Banana
Image generation
July 2025
Google released Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Language models
Cohere released Command A Vision
Language models
Mistral AI released Voxtral Small
Language models
Mistral AI released Devstral Medium 1.0
Language models
June 2025
OpenAI released o3-deep-research
Language models
OpenAI released o4-mini-deep-research
Language models
OpenAI released o3-pro
Language models
Price change for o3
- Output $40.00 → $8.00 ▼ 80%
- Input $10.00 → $2.00 ▼ 80%
Google released Gemini 2.5 Pro
Language models
Google released Gemini 2.5 Flash
Language models
Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.2
Language models
May 2025
OpenAI released codex-mini-latest
Language models
Mistral AI released Mistral Medium 3
Language models
Mistral AI released Codestral Embed
Embeddings
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4
Language models
April 2025
OpenAI released o4-mini
Language models
OpenAI released o3
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-4.1
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-4.1 Mini
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-4.1 nano
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-Image-1
Image generation
Cohere released Embed v4.0
Embeddings
March 2025
OpenAI released GPT-4o Mini TTS
Text to speech
OpenAI released GPT-4o Mini Transcribe
Speech to text
OpenAI released o1-pro
Language models
OpenAI released computer-use-preview
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-4o Mini Search Preview
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-4o Search Preview
Language models
Cohere released Aya Vision 32B
Language models
Cohere released Command A
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-4o Transcribe
Speech to text
February 2025
OpenAI released GPT-4.5 Preview
Language models
Mistral AI released Mistral Saba
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 3.7
Language models
January 2025
OpenAI released o3-mini
Language models
December 2024
OpenAI released o1
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-4o Mini Audio
Voice and realtime
OpenAI released GPT-4o Mini Realtime
Voice and realtime
Cohere released Rerank v3.5
Reranking
Cohere released Command R7B
Language models
November 2024
Mistral AI released Mistral Large 2.1
Language models
Mistral AI released Pixtral Large
Language models
October 2024
Price change for GPT-4o
- Input $5.00 → $2.50 ▼ 50%
- Output $15.00 → $10.00 ▼ 33%
OpenAI released GPT-4o Realtime
Voice and realtime
Cohere released Aya Expanse 8B
Language models
Cohere released Aya Expanse 32B
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 3.5
Language models
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 3.5 (new)
Language models
OpenAI released GPT-4o Audio
Voice and realtime