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Keep Opus 4.8 on the board: a baseline, not a flagship

Jun 20, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Keep Opus 4.8 on the board: a baseline, not a flagship

Opus 4.8 still bills $5/$25. We keep it so Opus 5 vs 4.8 is a real generation delta, not marketing.

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GLM-5.2 remains the prior Zhipu flagship for upgrade pairs

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Jun 18, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

GLM-5.2 remains the prior Zhipu flagship for upgrade pairs

Strong Chinese/English coding. 5.3 is the new row; 5.2 stays so the delta is visible.

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Claude Fable 5: the $10/$50 X-High Reasoning Anthropic SKU

Jun 15, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Claude Fable 5: the $10/$50 X-High Reasoning Anthropic SKU

Fable 5 is Anthropic's top-tier X-High reasoning tier. Read SWE-bench and output price together.

DeepSeek vs Claude: the cheap-versus-frontier question, remapped

Jun 13, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

DeepSeek vs Claude: the cheap-versus-frontier question, remapped

Top DeepSeek vs top Anthropic Elo. Usually V4 Pro vs Opus 5. License and invoice decide as much as Elo.

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DeepSeek V4 Pro: high reasoning density per dollar

Jun 12, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

DeepSeek V4 Pro: high reasoning density per dollar

2026-06 open-weight-adjacent flagship. The usual cheap-vs-Claude question starts here.

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Kimi K3: Moonshot’s long-context open-weight competitive row

Jun 8, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Kimi K3: Moonshot’s long-context open-weight competitive row

Jun 2026. The Kimi vs GPT hub remaps to the top Moonshot Elo vs top OpenAI Elo.

Claude Opus 4.6: the May follow-on that still shows up in old bookmarks

May 10, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Claude Opus 4.6: the May follow-on that still shows up in old bookmarks

Slightly behind 4.5 on one official SWE-bench sweep; stronger long-horizon traces. We keep the row for old vs URLs.

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Qwen 3 Max: Alibaba’s flagship for math and multilingual code

Apr 18, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Qwen 3 Max: Alibaba’s flagship for math and multilingual code

Closed flagship. Strong math. Compare to Sol and Opus on GPQA and SWE-bench, not on brand heat.

Llama vs Claude: open-weight Meta versus the Anthropic crown

Apr 9, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Llama vs Claude: open-weight Meta versus the Anthropic crown

Hub remaps to top Meta vs top Anthropic Elo. Usually Maverick vs Opus 5.

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Llama 4 Scout: long-context open sibling of Maverick

Apr 8, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Llama 4 Scout: long-context open sibling of Maverick

Huge window, cheap hosted lists. The Haiku alternative that is actually open-weight.

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