Claude 4 Sonnet
Anthropic's previous-gen workhorse — still solid, no longer the default
Verdict
One generation back from Sonnet 5, and still a perfectly good model — the gap is real but not dramatic. Reasonable choice if you have existing evals tuned against it. New projects should start on Sonnet 5 instead.
Other Text Generation & Reasoning
- GPT-5.6Production
OpenAI current flagship — Sol/Terra/Luna tiers, 1.05M context
- GPT-5Superseded
OpenAI's previous flagship — superseded by GPT-5.6
- GPT-5 miniProduction
OpenAI's cost-efficient GPT-5-tier model — most of the quality at a fraction of the cost
- GPT-4oProduction
OpenAI previous-gen multimodal model — text, vision, audio
- GPT-4o miniStable
OpenAI's previous-gen cost-efficient model — superseded by GPT-5 mini
- GPT-OSS 120BStable
OpenAI's first open-weight model — 120B params, fully downloadable