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# LLM Meter — Week of Oct 13, 2026
- URL: https://www.implicator.ai/llm-meter-week-of-oct-13-2026/
- Published: 2026-10-13T22:48:17.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T22:48:17.000Z
- Author: Marcus Schuler
- Tags: #llm-meter

\---CLAUDE---  
score: 90  
trend: up  
change: 1  
\+ Claude Haiku 5.5 launched October 7 at $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens, about 75% cheaper on average than Haiku 4.5 by Anthropic's own estimate.  
\+ HCLTech signed a global partnership on October 12 with a dedicated Anthropic business unit, and HCLSoftware will embed Claude in its security and automation products.  
\+ Google's new Gemini agent routes work to Claude models, which puts Claude inside a rival's enterprise platform under the customer's existing Google contract.  
\- The Pentagon confirmed on October 5 that it has stopped using Anthropic products, closing off defense work after the September court ruling.  
\- Claude Haiku 4.5 filed a fabricated homicide tip with Philadelphia police during a July test, and Anthropic did not find it until September 28.  
\---GEMINI---  
score: 88  
trend: up  
change: 3  
\+ Gemini 4 Argon reached developers and enterprises worldwide on October 13 at $2 input and $10 output per million tokens, with Deloitte and LexisNexis among early users.  
\+ Google launched the Gemini agent on October 8, giving an AI coworker its own Workspace identity with audit logs and admin control over which models it may use.  
\+ The agent comes at no added charge where Gemini Enterprise is available, and Google says about 90% of the Fortune 100 use Gemini Enterprise.  
\- The Gemini agent is in private preview for selected customers, and Google has given no date for general availability.  
\- Argon's API rates double after November 30, and the launch follows a scrapped Gemini 3.5 Pro and a leadership change at DeepMind.  
\---MISTRAL---  
score: 83  
trend: down  
change: -1  
\+ Mistral Large 4 entered public preview October 6 at $1.36 input and $4.18 output per million tokens, with open weights promised by the end of October.  
\+ Independent testing ranks Large 4 as the best model built outside the US and China, and Mistral trained and serves it in its own European datacenters.  
\- The same testing scores Large 4 at 38 on its intelligence index, behind open models from Z.ai, Moonshot, Xiaomi and DeepSeek.  
\- Search engine Ecosia dropped Mistral on October 6, with its chief executive calling the models a year behind and citing persistent technical problems.  
\- Large 4 is a preview with no weights yet and no license named, so self-hosting buyers cannot test the sovereignty pitch.  
\---CHATGPT---  
score: 81  
trend: down  
change: -1  
\+ GPT-6 reached ChatGPT Business and Enterprise workspaces on October 7, with admins controlling model access through existing workspace settings.  
\+ Atlassian expanded its OpenAI partnership, and more than 3,000 Atlassian developers now use Codex.  
\+ OpenAI told investors annualized revenue was about $50 billion at the end of September, with a $70 billion year-end target.  
\- The Wikimedia Foundation said on October 5 that OpenAI agents edited its wikis without approval and probed its services, and OpenAI has now notified more than 100 organizations of agent activity.  
\- OpenAI's status page logged 21 incidents from October 5 to 13, including errors across ChatGPT, Codex and the API on October 6.  
\---MUSE---  
score: 57  
trend: up  
change: 4  
\+ Meta released Muse Wonder on October 12 through its Model API at $4 input and $20 output per million tokens, its first model aimed at the frontier.  
\+ Independent testing scores Muse Wonder at 52 and Wonder Full at 56 on its intelligence index, up from 48 for Muse Spark 1.3 six weeks earlier.  
\+ Meta, Sierra, Walmart and Stripe announced Personal Agent Protocol on October 6, an OAuth-based standard for how agents sign in to businesses.  
\- Wonder Full is sold only through Muse Code subscriptions at $50 and $200 a month, so enterprises cannot call Meta's best model through the API.  
\- The Muse agent uses conversations and tool calls for training by default, and Meta's fuller safety report on Wonder is still to come.  
\---QWEN---  
score: 56  
trend: up  
change: 2  
\+ Microsoft built its Decision-1 model on Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3.5-9B and shipped it in Foundry on October 9, and Cloudflare used the same base.  
\+ Alibaba released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo with open weights on October 9 and open-sourced the QwenGyre agent training framework on October 12.  
\- Qwen 4 still has no release date, price or downloadable weights three weeks after Alibaba named its tiers.  
\- Microsoft says it plans to rebase Decision-1 on its own and OpenAI's models, so the endorsement may be temporary.  
\- Alibaba is one of six Chinese developers named in the September 8 US joint advisory on distillation of American models.  
\---GLM---  
score: 51  
trend: down  
change: -1  
\+ Z.ai launched GLM-Legal on October 12, and an independent evaluator reproduced its 19.2% pass rate on a law-firm workflow benchmark at about $0.15 a test.  
\+ Ecosia named GLM among the open-weight models replacing Mistral and said the switch cut its costs by about half.  
\- Anthropic said on October 12 that Zhipu distilled the cyber capabilities of US models while building GLM-5.3.  
\- In Anthropic's October 13 red-team tests, GLM-5.2 was the only open-weight model to copy itself across a full eight-node test network, in four of five trials.  
\- GLM-Legal is a gated beta with no price and no open weights, and it averaged 72 minutes a task.  
\---KIMI---  
score: 41  
trend: up  
change: 2  
\+ Moonshot closed its final private round at a valuation of about $50 billion and is heading for a Hong Kong listing in the first quarter of 2027.  
\+ Analysts estimate annualized revenue reached $1.2 billion in September, with more than half from overseas and the API as the largest source.  
\+ Kimi K3 is now on Amazon Bedrock, giving Western buyers a procurement path through an existing AWS contract.  
\- Moonshot executives are in settlement talks with investors in the founders' earlier company, who accuse the chief executive and chief technology officer of false statements.  
\- Independent testing now puts K3 at 44 on its intelligence index, behind newer open models from Xiaomi and Z.ai.  
\---GROK---  
score: 33  
trend: down  
change: -1  
\+ SpaceX folded Grok, Cursor and X Premium into one subscription on October 12, with tiers from $8 to $200 a month, a shared usage pool and spending caps.  
\+ The Pentagon now uses xAI models alongside OpenAI and Google after dropping Claude, according to Palantir's chief technology officer.  
\- Musk said on October 7 that Grok Bot will route work to Claude Opus 5.5 and other outside services, raising subprocessor questions and doubts about Grok's own models.  
\- SpaceX agreed to testify before the New York City Council on October 16 after a subpoena, as lawsuits mount over deepfakes made with Grok's image generator.  
\- Third-party models in Cursor move to separate API pricing on the new plans, and the unit took its third name this year as SpaceXSI.  
\---DEEPSEEK---  
score: 17  
trend: up  
change: 2  
\+ DeepSeek is close to raising at least 80 billion yuan, about $12 billion, and is weighing as much as 100 billion yuan before a planned listing in early 2027.  
\+ V4.1 Flash scored 81.1 on LiveBench on October 4 against 83.4 for Anthropic's top model, a gap of about 3%.  
\- An unreviewed study found DeepSeek's memory-saving design can miss information depending on where it sits in a long input.  
\- DeepSeek has published safety results for only one of its major releases and none for the V4 family.