🧠 AI Model Comparisons

646 articles. Rankings, head-to-head comparisons, pricing, and setup guides for every major AI model.

This hub tracks every major AI model we've covered on AI Made Tools β€” from Alibaba's Qwen and DeepSeek's V4 family to Claude, GPT, and Gemini. If you're trying to pick a model for a specific job, or just keep up with how fast this space moves, this is where we collect it: rankings, head-to-head comparisons, setup guides, and pricing breakdowns for the models developers actually use. We split coverage into Chinese and Western models because the two ecosystems move on different release cycles, pricing structures, and licensing terms. Coverage draws on hands-on testing where we've run a model ourselves, official vendor documentation, and published benchmarks β€” not just launch announcements.

Announced models: access is not public availability

Gemini 4 Argon: ANNOUNCED / RESTRICTED ACCESS. Google announced Argon on September 30, 2026, with selected cyber defenders using it through Fairwind. Normal public Gemini API, AI Studio and Vertex access is not generally available. Google's announced introductory economics are $2/M input and $10/M output, with a 95% cached-input discount; these are not public API purchase terms. The announced one-million-token limit concerns output, not a confirmed input context window.

For a deployable Gemini option, see Gemini 3.8 Flash. Access status comes from Google's Argon announcement, not our hands-on testing.

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πŸ† Best Of / Rankings (83)

Best AI Observability Tools With Customer-Managed Data Storage

Compare self-hosted LLM observability and data-plane options, storage boundaries, retention and oper

Best AI Evaluation Tools for Retrieved Citation Accuracy

Compare citation-specific RAG evaluation, trace investigation and buying tests that expose wrong-sou

Best Inference Services With Dedicated Capacity Reservations

Compare reserved throughput from Fireworks and Together with dedicated endpoints, and test model ava

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Chinese Models (203)

DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM, and MiniMax β€” often the cheapest and fastest-moving options, several with permissive open-weight licenses.

Kimi K3.1 Pro: Pricing, Context Window, API and Coding Uses

Kimi K3.1 Pro pricing, million-token context, API access and coding-agent trade-offs. Hosted API acc

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Gemini 3.8 Flash: Coding, Agents and API Cost

Compare DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash for coding and agents, including pricing structure,

Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B: Specs, Benchmarks and How to Run It Locally

Ornith 1.5 is a 35B MoE coding and agent model with about 3B active parameters, 262K context, vision

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Western Models (186)

Claude, GPT, Gemini, Mistral, and Llama β€” the models most production teams default to, with the most mature tooling ecosystems.

GPT-6.1 Terra: Pricing, Context Window, API and Coding Uses

GPT-6.1 Terra API access, token prices, context limits and coding uses. Understand Pro mode, batch r

AI Dev Weekly #29: Haiku 5.5, Mistral Large 4, Decisions API and Copilot

Week of Oct 2-8: Haiku 5.5 cuts token prices, Mistral Large 4 enters preview, OpenAI ships Decisions

Mistral Large 4: API Pricing, Specs, Context and Open Weights

Mistral Large 4 buyer and developer reference: GA API pricing, 1M context, released weights, license

βš”οΈ Head-to-Head (114)

GPT Image 2.6: Sunburst vs Flare, API Pricing, SVG and GIF

GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst and Flare API guide: model IDs, token prices, complexity versus quality, SVG/

GPT-6 Sol vs Claude Opus 5.5: Pricing, Caching and Agent Tradeoffs

Compare GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 for coding agents, API costs, prompt caching, long context, Co

Keeper vs 1Password for Developer Teams and AI Credentials

Compare Keeper and 1Password for developer teams, vaults, SSO, passkeys, CLI workflows, secrets adja

πŸ“– Setup Guides (45)

LFM3-1.7B: Local Setup, Hardware, API Pricing and Limits

LiquidAI LFM3-1.7B explained: local runtimes, 256K context, hosted pricing, commercial license condi

Grok 4.7 Complete Guide: API Pricing, 500K Context and Grok 4.7 Fast

Grok 4.7 API pricing, 500K context, reasoning levels, rate limits, Copilot availability, and how Gro

GLM-5.3 FlashX Guide: Pricing, 1M Context and API Setup

GLM-5.3 FlashX pricing, 1M context, modalities, tool calling, OpenRouter setup, limits, and how it d

πŸ’° Pricing (15)

Tencent Hy4: API Access, Pricing, Vision and Open-Weight Status

Tencent Hy4 API access and model identity, 1M context, vision and tool workflows, route pricing and

Particle-1: API Access, Pricing and Coding-Agent Trade-offs

Particle-1 model IDs, context window, API pricing and coding-agent evaluation. Separate the maker's

Muse Wonder API: Integration, Pricing and Production Checks

Integrate Meta's Muse Wonder Preview API: endpoint, model ID, cache rates, limits, privacy and safe