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Updated February 2026

Frontier AI Models Intelligence Hub

Benchmarks, pricing, context windows, and capabilities for every frontier model worth tracking. Data validated against official sources and independent benchmarks.

Frontier Models (February 2026)

Sorted by reasoning capability. Pricing per 1M tokens.

Claude Opus 4.6

New

Anthropic • Released Feb 5, 2026

#1 ARC-AGI-2 (68.8%), #1 Terminal-Bench (65.4%)

Context

1M (beta)

Output

128K

Price In/Out

$5/$25

New flagship. Adaptive thinking replaces budget_tokens. 67% price cut from Opus 4.5.

reasoningcodingagenticadaptive-thinking

GPT-5.2 Pro

OpenAI • Released Jan 2026

First 90% ARC-AGI-1, multimodal w/ audio

Context

196K

Output

64K

Price In/Out

$10/$30

Native audio modality. Strong general-purpose performance.

reasoningmultimodalaudio

Gemini 3 Pro

Google DeepMind • Released Dec 2025

Best multimodal (81% MMMU-Pro), 2M context

Context

2M

Output

64K

Price In/Out

$7/$21

Widest modality support: text, vision, audio, video. 2M native context.

multimodalreasoningvisionvideoaudio

Grok 4.1

xAI • Released Nov 2025

#1 LMArena (1483 Elo), 2M context

Context

2M

Output

64K

Price In/Out

$3/$15

Top LMArena Elo. Competitive pricing with long context.

reasoningagenticlong-context

Claude Opus 4.5

Anthropic • Released Nov 2025

Best coding at launch (80.9% SWE-bench)

Context

200K

Output

64K

Price In/Out

$5/$25

Previous flagship. Still available, superseded by Opus 4.6.

codingreasoningagentic

Llama 4 Maverick

Meta • Released Dec 2025

Open-weight MoE (400B/17B active)

Context

1M

Output

32K

Price In/Out

Open

Open-weight. 400B total, 17B active per token. Runs on single H100.

open-sourceagenticMoE

DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek • Released Jan 2025

Open-source reasoning champion, MIT license

Context

128K

Output

32K

Price In/Out

$0.55/$2.19

Most cost-effective reasoning model. Open-source under MIT license.

reasoningopen-sourcebudget

Benchmark Comparison

Head-to-head scores where data is available. Higher is better.

BenchmarkWhat It TestsOpus 4.6GPT-5.2Gemini 3Opus 4.5
ARC-AGI-2Abstract reasoning68.8%54.2%45.1%37.6%
Terminal-Bench 2.0Agentic coding65.4%59.8%
OSWorldComputer use72.7%66.3%
MMMU-ProMultimodal understanding81%
BigLaw BenchLegal reasoning90.2%
MRCR v2 (1M)Long-context retrieval76%

Sources: Official vendor announcements, ARC Prize Foundation, SWE-bench project. Last validated February 6, 2026.

Pricing Matrix (per 1M tokens)

Input/output pricing for standard API access. Cached and batch pricing varies.

ModelInputOutputContextCost per 10K conversation
Claude Opus 4.6$5.00$25.001M (beta)$0.15
GPT-5.2 Pro$10.00$30.00196K$0.20
Gemini 3 Pro$7.00$21.002M$0.14
Grok 4.1$3.00$15.002M$0.09
Claude Opus 4.5$5.00$25.00200K$0.15
DeepSeek R1$0.55$2.19128K$0.01
Claude Sonnet 4.5$3.00$15.00200K$0.09
Claude Haiku 4.5$0.80$4.00200K$0.02

ACOS Model Routing

How the Agentic Creator Operating System routes tasks across model tiers

Opus Tier

claude-opus-4-6

Architecture reviews, research synthesis, complex debugging, multi-file code generation, long-context analysis

$5.00 / $25.00 per 1M tokens

Sonnet Tier

claude-sonnet-4-5

Standard coding, content generation, API integrations, moderate-complexity tasks, production workflows

$3.00 / $15.00 per 1M tokens

Haiku Tier

claude-haiku-4-5

Classification, routing, simple extraction, high-volume processing, real-time chat, metadata tagging

$0.80 / $4.00 per 1M tokens

OCI GenAI Model Catalog

Available via Oracle Cloud GenAI Service for enterprise deployment

ModelProviderContextPrimary Use CaseEU
Cohere Command A ReasoningCohere256KComplex reasoning
Cohere Command A VisionCohere256KMultimodal
Cohere Embed 4Cohere-Multimodal embeddings
Cohere Rerank 3.5Cohere-Search relevance
Llama 4 MaverickMeta256KAgentic, MoE-
Llama 4 ScoutMeta10MEfficient agentic-
Grok 4.1 FastxAI2MLong context, agentic-
Grok Code Fast 1xAI-Coding specialist-
Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle1MComplex multimodal-
Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGoogle-Budget, high-volume-

Verify current model availability at docs.oracle.com/iaas/Content/generative-ai/pretrained-models.htm

Mixture of Experts (MoE) Architecture

MoE is revolutionizing AI efficiency. Llama 4 Maverick has 400B total parameters but only activates 17B per token — running on a single H100 GPU with quantization while matching much larger dense models.

400B

Total Parameters

17B

Active Per Token

10M

Context (Scout)

Research compiled by FrankX Intelligence Pipeline • Last updated February 6, 2026

Data sourced from official vendor documentation, ARC Prize Foundation, Scale AI SEAL, LMArena, and Artificial Analysis