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Llama 4 Maverick: Meta’s natively multimodal open-weight flagship

Apr 8, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Llama 4 Maverick: Meta’s natively multimodal open-weight flagship

Apr 2026. The Llama vs Claude hub uses the top Meta Elo row — usually Maverick.

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$Gemini 3 Flash: near-top official SWE-bench at a fraction of Opus$ launch

Mar 16, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Gemini 3 Flash: near-top official SWE-bench at a fraction of Opus

March 2026 speed SKU. Still a useful cheap-coding compare even after 3.6/3.7 Flash.

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Gemini 3 Pro’s multi-million context is still a 2026 RAG shortlist

Mar 15, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Gemini 3 Pro’s multi-million context is still a 2026 RAG shortlist

March 2026 Google frontier multimodal with a 2M window. 3.6 Pro is newer; 3 Pro stays as the original 3.x Pro row.

Claude Opus 4.5 and the Feb 2026 SWE-bench row we still cite

Feb 20, 2026·CompareLLM Intelligence Desk

Claude Opus 4.5 and the Feb 2026 SWE-bench row we still cite

The Feb refresh made 4.5 a coding reference. Newer Opus SKUs exist; this row stays as the dated harness point.

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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

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.

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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