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AI models released in October 2026
13 models went live in October 2026 so far, 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: Google 2 · Meta 2 · Anthropic 1 · Black Forest Labs 1 · Elorian 1 · Inception 1 · MiniMax 1 · Mistral 1 · Moonshot 1 · Reflection AI 1 · xAI 1
- Oct 23Kimi K3.1 Pro · Moonshotfrontier · $2 / $10 per 1M tokens · bench index 88
- Oct 19Mercury 3 · Inception
- Oct 19MiniMax M3.1 Flash · MiniMax$0.15 / $0.60 per 1M tokens · bench index 48.8
- Oct 16Beam · Reflection AIbench index 9.5
- Oct 16Glimpse · Elorian
- Oct 15Muse Spark Open · Metabench index 25.6
- Oct 14Grok Voice 3.0 · xAI
- Oct 13Gemini 4 · Googlefrontier · $2 / $10 per 1M tokens · bench index 79.5
- Oct 12Muse Wonder · Metafrontier · bench index 85.7
- Oct 7Claude Haiku 5.5 · Anthropic$0.10 / $0.50 per 1M tokens · bench index 51.6
- Oct 6Mistral Large 4 · Mistral$1.36 / $4.18 per 1M tokens · bench index 32.6
- Oct 6Nano Banana 2.1 · Google
- Oct 1FLUX 3 Image · Black Forest Labs
Prices and bench index are today’s figures, not launch-day ones.
Quick answers
How many AI models were released in October 2026?
13 so far that ArtificialWatch tracks, from 11 labs. Google and Meta shipped the most (2 each). Each date is the day the model went live on a public API, not the day it was announced.
What frontier AI models came out in October 2026?
Muse Wonder, Gemini 4 and Kimi K3.1 Pro, in that order, starting October 12, 2026.
How they compare: the LLM leaderboard, head-to-heads and API prices. When each launch was first seen, to the minute: the track record.
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