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Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the previous workhorse — still a valid vs baseline

Feb 18, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the previous workhorse — still a valid vs baseline

Most of Opus 4.5 coding at a mid-tier price. Sonnet 5 replaced it as the buy; 4.5 remains a compare baseline.

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MiniMax M2.5: the Feb 2026 SWE-bench specialist still on the board

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Feb 12, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

MiniMax M2.5: the Feb 2026 SWE-bench specialist still on the board

Tied near the top of official SWE-bench bash-only in Feb 2026. Coding lists should still see it.

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Mistral Large 3: the European flagship with function calling

Jan 18, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Mistral Large 3: the European flagship with function calling

Jan 2026. Not the Elo crown. Useful when residency and tools matter more than Arena.

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Claude Haiku 4.5 at $1/$5: the cheap Claude people actually ship

Oct 22, 2025·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Claude Haiku 4.5 at $1/$5: the cheap Claude people actually ship

Official Anthropic list $1/$5. This is the SKU behind “cheapest Claude alternative” that is still Claude.

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Qwen3 235B: the open MoE Qwen, not the Max SKU

Sep 20, 2025·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Qwen3 235B: the open MoE Qwen, not the Max SKU

Sep 2025 open-weight mixture-of-experts. Self-host path. Don’t confuse it with Qwen 3 Max.

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GPT-5 mini: the 2025 distill still useful as a cheap OpenAI baseline

Aug 8, 2025·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

GPT-5 mini: the 2025 distill still useful as a cheap OpenAI baseline

High-volume agents that cannot pay Sol. Compare to Luna before you assume the new cheap SKU wins.

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GPT-5 (2025) remains the legacy OpenAI flagship baseline

Aug 8, 2025·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

GPT-5 (2025) remains the legacy OpenAI flagship baseline

Still a common compare target. 5.6 Sol replaced it as the buy; GPT-5 stays for old URLs.

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Grok 4 remains the previous xAI flagship on this catalog

Jul 10, 2025·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Grok 4 remains the previous xAI flagship on this catalog

2025-07 row. 4.6 is the buy. We keep 4 so upgrade pairs and old inbound links resolve.

Gemini 2.5 Flash: previous Google speed workhorse, still a baseline

Mar 25, 2025·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Gemini 2.5 Flash: previous Google speed workhorse, still a baseline

Useful as a cheap historical compare. 3.7 Flash is the 2026 volume SKU.

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Gemini 2.5 Pro remains the previous Google long-context flagship

Mar 25, 2025·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Gemini 2.5 Pro remains the previous Google long-context flagship

2025-03 row. 3.x Pro replaced it. Kept for old “2.5 pro vs gpt-4o” inbound.