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What ArtificialWatch finds when it counts its own data: the release log, the labs' own API prices, the bench index, the open-weights list, the shutdown calendar and the record of when each launch was first seen. Every report links the dataset it was counted from. Quote one, chart it or republish it under CC BY 4.0 with a link back.
Nov 3, 2026 · from LLM API pricing
AI API prices don't follow the leaderboard: #1 Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4 / $20, while #3 and #4 cost $10 / $50
The model at the top of ArtificialWatch's bench index is not the most expensive one.
Nov 3, 2026 · from Live before it's announced
Anthropic's last five public models were live on its API 6 to 11 minutes before it announced them
ArtificialWatch's sweep found each of Anthropic's last five public models live on Anthropic's API before Anthropic announced it on X, by 6 to 11 minutes each time.
Nov 3, 2026 · from Open-weights leaderboard
The best open-weight AI model ranks 12th, 30 points behind Claude Opus 5.5. The top six open models are all Chinese
The highest-ranked AI model with downloadable weights on ArtificialWatch's bench index is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, in 12th place of 44 at 68.
Nov 3, 2026 · from AI model release log
17 AI models went live in October 2026, down from 27 in September. None passed Claude Opus 5.5
ArtificialWatch logged 17 AI models going live on a public API in October 2026, from 14 labs.
Nov 3, 2026 · from AI model retirement calendar
45 AI model shutdowns are scheduled, 34 of them OpenAI's. GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 go on January 14
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google list 45 dated model shutdowns on their deprecation pages as of November 3, by ArtificialWatch's count of those pages.
Nov 3, 2026 · from AI model release log
Anthropic shipped 6 of the 14 frontier models since July. OpenAI ships more often, mostly below the frontier
Since July 1, 78 AI models from 37 labs have gone live on a public API, by ArtificialWatch's own release log.
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