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July 2026

Jul 19, 2026Price cutGLM 5.2 output price cut ~~$0.823 / 1M~~ to $0.814 / 1M OpenRouter directory
Jul 19, 2026Price cutGLM 5.2 input price cut ~~$0.262 / 1M~~ to $0.259 / 1M OpenRouter directory
Jul 19, 2026DeprecatedGrok 3 retired No longer listed on xAI's model and pricing pages as of Jul 19, 2026. Current xAI lineup: Grok 4.5, 4.3, and 4.20. xAI models and pricing
Jul 19, 2026DeprecatedGrok 4.1 Fast retired No longer listed on xAI's model and pricing pages as of Jul 19, 2026. Current xAI lineup: Grok 4.5, 4.3, and 4.20. xAI models and pricing
Jul 19, 2026DeprecatedGrok 4 retired No longer listed on xAI's model and pricing pages as of Jul 19, 2026. Current xAI lineup: Grok 4.5, 4.3, and 4.20. xAI models and pricing
Jul 19, 2026New modelGrok 4.3 added to the index $1.25 in / $2.50 out per 1M base tier, 1M context. xAI models and pricing
Jul 19, 2026DeprecatedDeepSeek Reasoner API name retires Jul 24, 2026 DeepSeek retires the deepseek-reasoner model name on 2026-07-24 15:59 UTC; requests fold into deepseek-v4-flash (thinking and non-thinking modes). DeepSeek API docs
Jul 19, 2026DeprecatedDeepSeek Chat API name retires Jul 24, 2026 DeepSeek retires the deepseek-chat model name on 2026-07-24 15:59 UTC; requests fold into deepseek-v4-flash (thinking and non-thinking modes). DeepSeek API docs
Jul 19, 2026Price cuto3 output price cut ~~$40 / 1M~~ to $8 / 1M OpenRouter directory
Jul 19, 2026Price cuto3 input price cut ~~$10 / 1M~~ to $2 / 1M OpenRouter directory
Jul 19, 2026Context increaseQwen3 32B context window now 128k ~~32k~~ to 128k OpenRouter directory
Jul 19, 2026Context increaseLlama 4 Maverick context window now 1M ~~400k~~ to 1M OpenRouter directory
Jul 19, 2026Context increaseQwen3 235B-A22B context window now 128k ~~32k~~ to 128k OpenRouter directory
Jul 16, 2026New modelKimi K3 added to the index Open-weight 2.8T multimodal reasoning model; API at $3 in / $15 out per 1M, 1M context. OpenRouter listing
Jul 9, 2026New modelGPT-5.6 Luna added to the index $1 / 1M in / $6 / 1M out, 1M context. Luna tier of the GPT-5.6 series. OpenAI models index
Jul 9, 2026New modelGPT-5.6 Terra added to the index $2.50 / 1M in / $15 / 1M out, 1M context. Terra tier of the GPT-5.6 series. OpenAI models index
Jul 9, 2026New modelGPT-5.6 Sol added to the index $5 / 1M in / $30 / 1M out, 1M context. Sol tier of the GPT-5.6 series. OpenAI models index
Jul 8, 2026New modelGrok 4.5 added to the index $2 in / $6 out per 1M base tier ($4/$12 above the prompt-length threshold), 500k context. xAI models and pricing

June 2026

Jun 30, 2026New modelNano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) added to the index $0.25 / 1M in / $1.50 / 1M out per 1M (image output billed per image by Google). OpenRouter listing
Jun 30, 2026New modelClaude Sonnet 5 added to the index $2 in / $10 out per 1M introductory through Aug 31, 2026 (then $3/$15), 1M context. Anthropic pricing
Jun 18, 2026New modelNano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) added to the index $0.50 / 1M in / $3 / 1M out per 1M (image output billed per image by Google). OpenRouter listing
Jun 18, 2026New modelNano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) added to the index $2 / 1M in / $12 / 1M out per 1M (image output billed per image by Google). OpenRouter listing
Jun 16, 2026New modelGLM 5.2 added to the index $0.26 in / $0.82 out per 1M, 1M context. OpenRouter listing
Jun 12, 2026New modelKimi K2.7 Code added to the index $0.85 in / $3.80 out per 1M, 256k context. Coding specialist. OpenRouter listing
Jun 9, 2026New modelClaude Fable 5 added to the index $10 in / $50 out per 1M, 1M context. Mythos-class tier above Opus. Anthropic pricing
Jun 4, 2026New modelNemotron 3 Ultra added to the index Open-weight 550B MoE (55B active); hosted at $0.60 in / $3.60 out per 1M, 1M context. OpenRouter listing
Jun 3, 2026New modelQwen3.7 Plus added to the index $0.32 in / $1.28 out per 1M, 1M context. OpenRouter listing

May 2026

May 31, 2026New modelMiniMax M3 added to the index $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M, 1M context, video input. OpenRouter listing
May 28, 2026New modelClaude Opus 4.8 added to the index $5 in / $25 out per 1M, 1M context. Replaces Opus 4.1 (retires Aug 5, 2026). Anthropic pricing
May 21, 2026New modelQwen3.7 Max added to the index $1.475 in / $4.425 out per 1M, 1M context. OpenRouter listing

February 2026

Feb 19, 2026DeprecatedClaude 3.5 Haiku retired Retired from the Claude API on Feb 19, 2026. Anthropic's recommended replacement: Claude Haiku 4.5. Anthropic model deprecations
Feb 19, 2026DeprecatedClaude 3.7 Sonnet retired Retired from the Claude API on Feb 19, 2026. Anthropic's recommended replacement: Claude Sonnet 4.6. Anthropic model deprecations
Feb 17, 2026New modelClaude Sonnet 4.6 released 1M context, $3/$15 per 1M. Now the default Anthropic recommendation for agents and coding at scale.
Feb 5, 2026New modelClaude Opus 4.6 released 1M context, $5/$25 per 1M. Extended + adaptive thinking; sets a new ceiling for coding agents.

December 2025

Dec 20, 2025New modelGrok 4.1 Fast released 2M context at $0.20/$0.50 per 1M — aggressive frontier pricing with reasoning and web-native tools.
Dec 2, 2025New modelMistral Large 3 released as open weights Multimodal flagship at $0.5/$1.5 per 1M hosted, plus full self-hosted deployment path.

November 2025

Nov 13, 2025New modelGPT-5.1 released 400k context, configurable reasoning modes. OpenAI's new flagship for coding and agentic workflows.

October 2025

Oct 28, 2025DeprecatedClaude 3.5 Sonnet retired Retired from the Claude API on Oct 28, 2025. Anthropic's recommended replacement: Claude Sonnet 4.6. Anthropic model deprecations

August 2025

Aug 12, 2025New modelMistral Medium 3.1 released Frontier-class managed model at $0.4/$2 per 1M with multimodal and OCR support.
Aug 7, 2025New modelGPT-5 mini stabilized Near-frontier quality at $0.25/$2 per 1M. Replaces GPT-4o mini as the OpenAI workhorse default.

June 2025

Jun 20, 2025New modelMistral Small 3.2 open-sourced 128k context, $0.1/$0.3 per 1M hosted. One of the cleanest budget open-weight options.

April 2025

Apr 29, 2025New modelQwen3 235B-A22B open-sourced Hybrid think/no-think modes across 119 languages. Narrows the reasoning gap on open-weight models.
Apr 18, 2025New modelLlama 4 Scout released 10M context in a single-H100-viable package. Changes the scale ceiling for open deployments.

March 2025

Mar 13, 2025New modelCohere Command A released Enterprise flagship: 256k context, multilingual RAG, citations, tool use at $2.5/$10 per 1M.

February 2025

Feb 24, 2025New modelClaude 3.7 Sonnet added to index First Claude with extended thinking. 200K context, $3/$15 per 1M. Now superseded by Sonnet 4.6 but still live.
Feb 22, 2025DeprecatedSonar Large retired Perplexity retired the legacy Llama-Sonar online models on Feb 22, 2025 in favor of the current Sonar line. Perplexity changelog