List-price bands, speed, reasoning, and when-to-use guidance for chat and image models. Reference pricing only—not your Ethyx invoice.
Ethyx's recommended everyday chat picks—start here if you want our defaults.
Anthropic
Workload: Balanced
Claude Sonnet 5 is Ethyx’s balanced default—strong writing, analysis, and code without Opus cost. Use it for most projects; reserve Opus or Fable for maximum quality on hard problems.
List price: $$$
Speed: Standard
Supports extended reasoning
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OpenAI
Workload: Light
GPT-5.6 Luna is the efficient GPT-5.6 tier for cost-sensitive, high-volume workloads. Step up to Terra or Sol when quality matters more than price.
List price: $$
Speed: Fast
Supports extended reasoning
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xAI
Workload: Heavy
Grok 4.6 is xAI’s current flagship for agentic coding, long-running research, and ambitious interactive work. Use Grok 4.5 when you specifically need the prior coding line, or Grok 4.3 for general chat.
List price: $$
Speed: Slower-paced
Supports extended reasoning
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Image generation models—use when you need visuals from a prompt rather than text chat.
xAI
Workload: Balanced
Grok Imagine is the fast xAI option for everyday image generation and edits—concepts, social visuals, and iterative tweaks. Choose GPT Image 2 when fidelity and fine detail matter more than speed.
OpenAI
Workload: Heavy
GPT Image 2 is OpenAI’s higher-quality image tier for detailed scenes, product mockups, and careful edits. Use Grok Imagine when you want quicker iteration at lower cost.
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No training per provider terms — under its commercial API terms, this provider does not train on your conversations.
No-retention requested — by default, Ethyx sends a per-request no-retention flag (store: false) with chat requests.
Caution — this provider may store and train on your messages. Avoid sharing sensitive details.
Privacy ratings describe provider policies, not a guarantee. Your real name and email are never sent raw—identity is pseudonymized or withheld—and by default we request no data retention where the provider API supports it.
