The story published out there and, below it, what real token traffic from the last 7 days says about who is in it. The headline opens the original article; the model name opens its page here.
According to TechCrunch, Anthropic called Opus 5.5 "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date" and lowered its prices. According to The Verge, the new version comes with stricter safeguards against risky behaviors, including attempts to escape the company's testing sandbox. According to Tecnoblog, the model promises to match Mythos 5.1's performance in cybersecurity and biology work.
According to cryptocellar.org, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model broke an Enigma-encrypted message that had resisted solution since 2005.
According to Business Insider, HypeAuditor data shows OpenAI doubled its sponsored Instagram posts promoting ChatGPT, from 61 in June to 122 in July, rising again to 141 in August.
13.7% of traffic over the last 7 days. The previous leader was DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, now at 13.3%.
See GLM 5.3 Flash on Model Season →From $0.14 to $0.24 per 1M tokens, blended. Input $0.090 → $0.150, output $0.30 → $0.50. New price since Sep 22.
What the data says. The model has 13.72% of traffic over the last 7 days, ranked 1st. Z.ai (GLM) has 15.5% of tokens and 6.4% of estimated spend this week.
See GLM 5.3 Flash on Model Season →From $0.050 to $0.190 per 1M tokens, blended. Input $0.040 → $0.040, output $0.080 → $0.640. New price since Sep 22.
What the data says. The model has 7.24% of traffic over the last 7 days, ranked 4th. DeepSeek has 27.0% of tokens and 6.2% of estimated spend this week. The lab's most used model is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, with 13.28% at $0.26 per 1M, and this one costs 1.4 times less.
See DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 on Model Season →OpenAI, $0.10 input and $0.50 output per 1M tokens, 1M context and optional reasoning. No traffic volume measured yet.
What the data says. OpenAI has 12.4% of tokens and 36.3% of estimated spend this week. The lab's most used model is GPT-5.6 Luna, with 6.45% at $0.45 per 1M, and this one costs 2.3 times less.
See GPT-6 Luna Pro on Model Season →OpenAI, $2.00 input and $10.00 output per 1M tokens, 1M context and optional reasoning. No traffic volume measured yet.
What the data says. OpenAI has 12.4% of tokens and 36.3% of estimated spend this week. The lab's most used model is GPT-5.6 Luna, with 6.45% at $0.45 per 1M, and this one costs 8.9 times more.
See GPT-6 Sol on Model Season →In the news: summaries written by AI using only what the cited sources published, reviewed before going live. The numbers in the “The data” strip come from our data, traffic from the last 7 days, never from the summary. Catalog snapshot of Sep 23, 2026, compared with the previous ones since Sep 16, 2026. Traffic through Sep 22, 2026. Price is a 75% input and 25% output blend, and only becomes news when the new value holds for two snapshots. Order follows a fixed relevance formula that weighs the type of change and the model’s share.