Alex Kim

All three now sell a 5x tier at $100 and a 20x tier at $200. We compare coding agents, limits, deep-reasoning modes and bundles, then pick by persona.

Every ChatGPT plan's Codex allowance in one table: GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna messages per five hours, GPT-6 Pro weekly caps, resets and what to do at the limit.

GPT-6 Sol and Luna halve OpenAI's API prices yet score near rival flagships on coding, while flagship Astra is OpenAI's first Critical-rated cyber model.

Opus 5.5 out-exploits Mythos 5.1 in Anthropic's own cyber tests and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5. Blocked security requests fall back to Opus 4.8.

Alibaba confirmed Qwen 4 is in training at Apsara 2026, with Qwen 4.5 and Qwen 5 targeting 5-10T parameters and the Zhenwu V900 chip due Q1 2027.

SpaceXAI's launch table shows Grok 4.7 edging Claude Fable 5.1 Max on DeepSWE at a fraction of the price. On an independent harness, the gap is 29 points.

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 clears CyberGym at 94.0 under an MIT licence, but ExploitBench at 47.9 shows the audit-to-exploit gap is still wide open.

With NIST finalizing FIPS 203 and 204, enterprises face CNSA 2.0 deadlines. We break down hybrid TLS 1.3 handshakes, MTU packet fragmentation, and CBOM discovery.