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Image models

GPT Image 2.5 OpenAI's newest GPT Image generation models. Midjourney V8.2 Midjourney V8.2: a resolution that follows the aspect ratio, an HD tier at 2048px and four subscription plans metered in GPU time. Google Nano Banana Pro Google’s image generation and editing model, tuned for text rendering and reference consistency. Adobe Firefly Image 5 Adobe Firefly Image Model 5: native 4MP without upscaling, one image per generation and 10 credits a render. FLUX 2 Pro Black Forest Labs’ FLUX.2 image family, from production tiers to open weights. Ideogram 4.0 Ideogram’s design-first image model, shipped as open weights with layout control and editable output. Recraft V4.1 Recraft’s design-first image models, with editable vector output and reusable style control. Stable Diffusion SD 3.5 Stability AI’s open-weight image family: three sizes, published weights and a community licence. ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Pro ByteDance's multimodal image model, built for dense infographics and precise local edits. Grok Imagine Image 2.0 SpaceXAI's image model for precise region edits and multi-image composition.

Video models

Google Veo 3.1 Google’s video generation model, with native dialogue, sound and prompt-driven control. Runway Gen-4.5 Runway’s current video model: 720p, up to 10 seconds, no native audio, and only available as a hosted service. Kling AI 3.0 Kuaishou’s current video model: native 4K, 3 to 15 second clips, up to five connected shots and audio in five languages. ByteDance Seedance 2.5 ByteDance Seedance 2.5: 4 to 30 seconds at 24fps, up to 50 reference assets and per-token pricing. Luma AI Ray 3.2 Luma’s current video model: 1080p in every mode, up to 16 keyframes a clip and native 16-bit HDR, priced in credits. Adobe Firefly Video Adobe Firefly Video: fixed five-second clips at 24fps in three resolutions, priced from 20 to 100 credits a second. Hailuo AI H3 MiniMax’s Hailuo AI model: 4 to 15 second clips, picture and 32 kHz stereo sound in one pass, up to 12 reference files and open H3-Base weights. PixVerse V6 PixVerse V6: clips up to 15 seconds at 1080p, native multi-shot and audio, and non-commercial output by default. Pika 2.5 Pika 2.5: 720p or 1080p clips of five or ten seconds, at $0.04 and $0.06 per second through the API. Alibaba Wan 3.0 Alibaba’s current video model: 30 seconds in a single pass, up to 1080P, documents and webpages as references, and per-second pricing. LTX Video 2.5 Lightricks’ open-weights video model: downloadable and fine-tunable, up to native 4K HDR, multi-shot continuity and an official per-second API. Grok Imagine Video 1.5 SpaceXAI's image-to-video model: audio in the same pass, up to 15 seconds a clip.

Text models

Google Gemini 3.8 Flash Google’s multimodal AI model and assistant. OpenAI GPT 6 Astra OpenAI’s frontier model: a 1,050,000-token context window, ARC-AGI-3 at 99.9% and a Critical cyber rating. Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic’s assistant and model family, known for long-context reasoning and writing. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek’s 552B multimodal MoE: 890 bytes of KV cache per token, up to 1M context and an MIT licence. Qwen 3.8 Max Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 Max: 2.4T parameters, 95B activated, a 3-to-1 hybrid attention layout and 1M context by default. Llama 4 Maverick Meta’s open-weights Llama 4 Maverick: 17B activated of 400B, 128 experts and a 1M context window.

AI tools

Codex OpenAI’s project-aware coding agent. Cursor Anysphere’s AI-native code editor. OpenClaw OpenClaw Foundation’s open-source AI assistant. Perplexity Perplexity routes between third-party models; its Sonar tiers retire 27 September 2026. ElevenLabs v3 ElevenLabs’ documented Eleven v3 limits, credit prices and voice-cloning rules. Suno v6 Suno v6, its credit-metered plans, and the exact rights Suno grants on each tier. Manus 1.6 Manus 1.6: a general AI agent with a cloud VM per task and credit-metered plans.

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