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 Anthropic, Claude Haiku 5.5 is its fastest, cheapest and most capable small model yet, designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive work. The company says it costs around 75% less to run on average than Haiku 4.5 and is its first Haiku-class model with an adjustable effort setting.
According to OpenAI, Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni violated clear policies on handling sensitive information, and an investigation found “a significant breach of trust.” In an open letter, the three deny the allegations and warn of a chilling effect on the company’s safety culture.
According to the Financial Times, OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue is approaching $50 billion, some $20 billion less than the nearly $70 billion reported earlier. The higher figure came from investors' attempts to compare it directly with Anthropic.
From $0.052 to $0.327 per 1M tokens, blended. Input $0.0420 → $0.0099, output $0.084 → $1.280. New price since Oct 8.
What the data says. The model has 1.91% of traffic over the last 7 days, ranked 12th. DeepSeek has 23.5% of tokens and 13.0% of estimated spend this week. The lab's most used model is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, with 21.35% at $0.53 per 1M, and this one costs 1.6 times less.
See DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 on Model Season →InclusionAI, $0.042 input and $0.12 output per 1M tokens, 256k context and optional reasoning. No traffic volume measured yet.
What the data says. The model has 0.27% of traffic over the last 7 days, ranked 47th. The lab's most used model is Ling 3.1 Flash, with 0.28% at $0.0000 per 1M.
See Ling 3.0 Flash Sante on Model Season →Inception, $0.020 input and $0.0000 output per 1M tokens and 64k context. No traffic volume measured yet.
First volume recorded on Oct 8, 2026, 0 days after entering the catalog, with 0.38% of traffic over the last 7 days.
See Step 5 Preview on Model Season →First volume recorded on Oct 8, 2026, 1 day after entering the catalog, with 0.21% of traffic over the last 7 days.
What the data says. Anthropic has 3.5% of tokens and 30.3% of estimated spend this week. The lab's most used model is Claude Opus 5.5, with 2.30% at $8.00 per 1M.
See Claude Haiku 5.5 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 Oct 9, 2026, compared with the previous ones since Oct 2, 2026. Traffic through Oct 8, 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.