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AI models released in July 2026

15 models went live in July 2026, 3 of them frontier models. Each date is the day ArtificialWatch verified the model live on a public API, not the day it was announced.

By lab: Anthropic 2 · Google 2 · Meta 2 · Thinking Machines 2 · xAI 2 · Ant Group 1 · Black Forest Labs 1 · MiniMax 1 · Moonshot 1 · OpenAI 1

• Jul 30Inkling-Small · Thinking Machinesbench index 0
• Jul 30MiniMax-H3 · MiniMax
• Jul 29Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 · xAI
• Jul 24Claude Opus 5 · Anthropicfrontier · $5 / $25 per 1M tokens · bench index 72.8
• Jul 23FLUX 3 · Black Forest Labs
• Jul 23Ling 3.0 Flash · Ant Group
• Jul 21Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite · Google$0.30 / $2.50 per 1M tokens
• Jul 21Gemini 3.6 Flash · Google$0.75 / $3.75 per 1M tokens
• Jul 15Inkling · Thinking Machinesbench index 4.7
• Jul 15Kimi K3 · Moonshot$3 / $15 per 1M tokens · bench index 28.6
• Jul 9ChatGPT-5.6 · OpenAIfrontier · $4 / $20 per 1M tokens · bench index 50
• Jul 9Grok 4.5 · xAI$2 / $6 per 1M tokens · bench index 34.9
• Jul 9Muse Spark 1.1 · Meta$1.25 / $4.25 per 1M tokens · bench index 30.8
• Jul 7Muse Image · Meta
• Jul 1Fable 5 · Anthropicfrontier · $10 / $50 per 1M tokens · bench index 72.1

Prices and bench index are today’s figures, not launch-day ones.

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How they compare: the LLM leaderboard, head-to-heads and API prices. When each launch was first seen, to the minute: the track record.