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# LLM Meter — Week of Sep 6, 2026
- URL: https://www.implicator.ai/llm-meter-week-of-sep-6-2026/
- Published: 2026-09-06T09:44:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-06T09:44:19.000Z
- Author: Marcus Schuler
- Tags: #llm-meter

\---CLAUDE---  
score: 92  
trend: up  
change: +1  
\+ Fable 5.1 launched September 1 across the major clouds, with cache reads cut 75% to $0.25 per million tokens.  
\+ Eligible customers can use Fable 5 and 5.1 with zero data retention while Enterprise Frontier Safeguards is being prepared.  
\- EFS rolls out later this fall, with customer storage costs and human review remaining the buyer's responsibility.  
\- Anthropic's August 31 security update still described its incident investigation and independent METR review as unfinished.  
\---CHATGPT---  
score: 86  
trend: up  
change: +2  
\+ GPT-6 Astra began rolling out September 3 for coding, research, computer use and complex business tasks.  
\+ Astra led the September 5 Code Arena WebDev table, providing external evidence beyond OpenAI's launch benchmarks.  
\- Access remains phased, and the launch release notes explicitly say Astra is not yet generally available.  
\- OpenAI's system card records weaker reasoning monitorability despite improved compliance with safety restrictions.  
\---GEMINI---  
score: 84  
trend: up  
change: +5  
\+ Gemini 3.8 Flash reached general availability September 2 with a one-million-token context window.  
\+ Introductory pricing is $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through December 31.  
\- Standard token prices double January 1, and Google says complex tasks can consume more tokens than with 3.7 Flash.  
\- Flash Cyber is restricted to trusted defenders through Fairwind, so its capabilities do not belong in a general-access comparison.  
\---MISTRAL---  
score: 81  
trend: down  
change: -1  
\+ Vibe Enterprise remains excluded from model training by default, with organization controls for administrators.  
\+ Standard Vibe and API customers can opt out of training without buying Enterprise.  
\- Vibe and API training controls are separate, adding a configuration check for businesses using both products.  
\- Zero data retention requires approval and covers eligible stateless API calls, excluding Vibe chats and stateful agents.  
\---GLM---  
score: 57  
trend: up  
change: +3  
\+ First-half 2026 revenue reached RMB954 million, up 399.7%, with platform and API services contributing 86.5%.  
\+ GLM-5.3-Flash weights remain available under MIT, preserving a permissive route to independent deployment.  
\- First-half adjusted net loss widened 12.1% to RMB1.964 billion, despite the decline in reported net loss.  
\- Gross margin fell to 26.4% from 50.0%, limiting the financial benefit of rapid API growth.  
\---QWEN---  
score: 56  
trend: up  
change: +4  
\+ Qwen3.8-Max-0902 shipped September 2 through Alibaba Cloud with a one-million-token context window.  
\+ The model placed fourth in the September 5 Code Arena WebDev table, with its result still marked preliminary.  
\+ The current Max weight license exempts qualifying internal use from its separate commercial-license requirement.  
\- Specified model-service and AI work-assistant businesses above $50 million in annual group revenue need a separate license.  
\---MUSE---  
score: 54  
trend: up  
change: +6  
\+ Muse Spark 1.3 shipped September 2 in Muse Code and Meta Model API for longer coding and agent tasks.  
\+ Published token rates remain $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens.  
\- The live benchmark page differs from the September 2 snapshot, so the earlier 42% task-cost advantage is not a current comparison.  
\- Meta still lists Spark open weights as future work, leaving the new release dependent on hosted access.  
\---KIMI---  
score: 41  
trend: up  
change: +2  
\+ Moonshot reportedly filed confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO targeting about $3 billion, improving its potential financing options.  
\+ K3's license exempts internal use and access through official products or certified inference partners from specified commercial conditions.  
\- The IPO proceeds and proposed cloud revenue-sharing deals remain uncompleted transactions.  
\- K3's published repository is 1.56TB, keeping independent deployment a substantial infrastructure commitment.  
\---GROK---  
score: 35  
trend: up  
change: +4  
\+ Grok Bot for Enterprise launched September 3 with access, network and audit controls.  
\+ Grok and Cursor Enterprise customers received a two-week trial covering colleagues without existing seats.  
\+ SpaceXAI published a September 1 account of external biological safety testing, adding evidence for specialist procurement reviews.  
\- Trial access and narrow safety evaluations do not establish long-term operating cost or safety across business workflows.  
\---DEEPSEEK---  
score: 17  
trend: up  
change: +1  
\+ DeepSeek's status page reported no incidents from August 29 through September 6, a limited positive reliability signal.  
\+ Current documentation supports Responses and Anthropic API formats, reducing integration work for existing agent tools.  
\- V4-Flash still costs $0.44 per million uncached input tokens and $1.32 per million output tokens during weekday peak hours.  
\- Off-peak rates are half those prices, leaving cost dependent on scheduling, while the vision endpoint remains experimental.