Know the minute a new AI model drops.

Our checkers sweep provider APIs every 60 seconds, and a detection is confirmed on a second sweep before anything fires. The moment it's confirmed, paid alerts fire instantly: Signal texts you; The Call rings your phone (and texts). Chrome push goes out to everyone at that same moment; free email follows in a batch about 15 minutes later.

The radar pins the latest confirmed drops on top and shows what lands next — the next Claude Opus, Grok 4.8, GLM-5.5 and Kimi K3.1. Gemini 3.5 Pro sits there too, for a different reason: it has been in limited preview since July, and since Gemini 4 Argon was announced on Sep 30, 9to5Google reports it cancelled, though Google has said nothing. The full watchlist tracks 170, including the restricted Gemini Flash Cyber, plus Grok 5, Fable 6, Gemini 4, DeepSeek V5 and more. Click any model for its own page: the leaks, the news, the official word, and the live Polymarket odds on when it drops. Tune alerts to SOTA-only, every major-lab LLM, or specific models, plus extra streams for AI tools, local models, and Chinese models.

A detection has to show up on two sweeps in a row, in a provider’s own model list or a public API catalog. Not a rumor, a leak, or a docs page. Where we can call the model, it also has to reply to a test prompt before any channel fires; where we can’t, the alert email says so plainly, so you know what was checked and what wasn’t.

A Watchtower feature that watches the AI subscriptions you already pay for. Today that’s the published Claude model lineup and the Gemini app’s model list, plus API prices and limits across providers (ChatGPT’s surface is next). When a model is quietly added (or pulled, the way Fable 5 was in June), you hear immediately. Every paid plan (Signal and The Call) gets the subscription watch today, and keeps it.

Signal ($12) kills the delay: instant SMS on the same sweep that catches the launch, routed per model. The Call ($19.99) is the tier whose phone rings, because a text gets missed and a call gets answered. Both cost less than one of the subscriptions they guard. Both also get the Watchtower’s watchers: your prompts run on every new model day-0 (the raw answers), and alerts when your AI subscriptions add or pull models, change prices or limits, or retire a model you rely on. You keep them. What only the Watchtower adds is the scoring.

The tier for people who want their own evidence. The Call tells you a model landed; the Watchtower tells you whether it’s better at your work. Up to 20 of your own prompts run on every new model and on the model you use now. A judge from a third lab (never the lab of either model) compares each pair blind, and the order alternates so neither answer always goes first. You get the verdict by email (how many better, same and worse, and why) plus a PDF with both answers side by side. You also choose what your alerts carry: the model to compare against, the price and context numbers, and whether your texts include them. It includes everything in The Call and the watchers. $34.99/mo is the charter price and never rises while you stay subscribed. Already on Signal or The Call? Upgrade from your dashboard: your current plan ends when the Watchtower starts and its unused days are credited, so you never pay for both. Anyone already on a paid plan keeps every feature they have today, permanently.

Yes. Every paid plan is monthly with no lock-in. Cancel in one click and keep access through the period you’ve paid for. One caveat worth knowing: The Call’s $19.99 charter rate is locked while you stay subscribed. Cancel and the lock is gone; rejoining later means whatever the price is then. (Grandfathered founders: same deal on your $9.)

Founding closed in July 2026. It was the launch-era tier, $9/mo for the early believers, and everyone who joined keeps that rate for life, grandfathered unconditionally. It closed as a decision, not a sell-out. The ladder today is Free, Signal, and The Call.

On the way. The plan: a macOS menubar radar with a full-screen drop banner, then iPhone and Android apps with widgets, then Windows and Linux trays. Today, email works everywhere and Chrome push works in desktop browsers and on Android; on an iPhone, email (or a paid text or call) is how alerts reach you. See the roadmap.

No. ArtificialWatch is independent and not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any AI lab. We watch their public APIs and tell you the second something ships.