Release dates and context windows of representative models from major providers.
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Provider Model Released Context window Description
OpenAI GPT-4.1 2025-04-14 1M The API flagship non-reasoning model, strong at coding. It officially brought context to 1 million tokens, with mini and nano released at the same time.
OpenAI GPT-4.1 mini 2025-04-14 1M A mid-small GPT-4.1 size that keeps million-token context and strong coding ability. A good fit for cost-efficient production use.
OpenAI GPT-4.1 nano 2025-04-14 1M The smallest GPT-4.1 size, with the lowest latency and price. Suited to classification, extraction, simple completion, and other high-traffic work.
Gemini Gemini 2.5 Pro 2025-03-25 1M A 2.5 flagship preview with a thinking process. It led then-current Gemini on math, code, and long-context retrieval.
DeepSeek DeepSeek-V3-0324 2025-03-24 128K A major hosted V3 update. Reasoning, coding, writing, search, and function calling all improved, MIT-licensed.
Qwen QwQ-32B 2025-03-06 131072 A Qwen open-source reasoning model. A 32B dense model that approached larger models on math and code reasoning.
OpenAI GPT-4.5 2025-02-27 128K A research-preview extra-large non-reasoning chat model that emphasized world knowledge and writing quality. Its lifespan was short, and it was later absorbed into the GPT-4.1 / GPT-5 line.
Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet 2025-02-24 200K The first hybrid-reasoning Sonnet. It can switch between instant answers and extended thinking, and Claude Code launched with it.
xAI Grok-3 2025-02-17 1M A reasoning-era flagship trained at Colossus scale. It offers Think mode, with context up to 1 million tokens.
xAI Grok-3 mini 2025-02-17 1M A lighter reasoning version of Grok-3 that keeps Think mode, for lower cost and faster responses.
Gemini Gemini 2.0 Pro 2025-02-05 2M The 2.0 experimental flagship, focused on coding and complex prompts, with context up to 2 million.
OpenAI o3-mini 2025-01-31 200K The first reasoning model opened to free ChatGPT users. Near o1 on math and coding, with faster speed and lower price.
Qwen Qwen2.5-Max 2025-01-28 131072 Alibaba Cloud's hosted flagship MoE. It targeted then-current first-tier closed models, for general chat and complex tasks.
Kimi Kimi K1.5 2025-01-20 128K The start of the numbered model line. Stronger multimodal reasoning and RL, and the start of Kimi's thinking path.
DeepSeek DeepSeek-R1 2025-01-20 128K A reasoning model trained with pure RL. Open-sourcing it drew global attention. R1-Zero and several distilled sizes shipped with it.
DeepSeek DeepSeek-V3 2024-12-26 128K A 671B MoE (about 37B active) with FP8 training and MTP. It became the base for later R1 and the app.
Gemini Gemini 2.0 Flash 2024-12-11 1M The default high-speed model of the 2.0 era. Stronger native tools, multimodal output, and realtime capability. Veo 2 launched with it.
OpenAI o1 2024-12-05 200K The full o1 reasoning model, launched with ChatGPT Pro. The API opened on December 17, and context rose to 200K.
Anthropic Claude 3.5 Haiku 2024-10-22 200K The 3.5-generation fast model. Speed near Haiku and intelligence near early Sonnet, for low-latency production traffic.
Qwen Qwen2.5 2024-09-19 131072 The most widely used open-source generation. Full sizes from 0.5B to 72B, with broad gains in coding, math, and instruction following.

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Release dates and context windows are compiled from public sources. Limits can differ by platform, plan, or preview API. Please refer to each provider's official documentation.
The table above is sorted by release date in descending order.