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TokenCalculator July 2026 Update: 130+ Models, Hermes-OpenClaw and a Faster Nav
What changed on the site this month: every model from the June and July release wave, a rebuilt agentic coding directory, recalculated leaderboards and a navigation bar that finally uses the full width of your screen.
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Which Model Should You Actually Use? A July 2026 Decision Tree
Thirteen frontier-class models shipped in eight weeks. Here is a straight answer for each of the twelve situations most teams are actually in, with the prices attached.
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GPT-5.6 and the Sol Tier: OpenAI's Answer to Claude 5
Thirteen days after Claude Opus 5, OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 at unchanged pricing plus Sol, a long-thinking tier at $12 per million that posts the best GPQA score anyone has published.
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Stop Buying Bigger Context Windows. Compaction Beats Them
Agents that summarise and discard their own history outperform agents given a window four times larger. The research is clear, the pricing implications are large, and most teams are still optimising the wrong variable.
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Gemini 3.6 Put a 2M Context Window on Every Paid Tier. Here Is What It Actually Costs
Google stopped gating the 2M window behind enterprise deals. Great news, with one asterisk: filling a 2M window costs $4 per request before the model has generated a single output token.
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