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Models

Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts Anthropic's small-model price by 90% for prompts under 100,000 tokens

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, 2026. For prompts up to 100,000 tokens it costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, a tenth of what Haiku 4.5 charges; above that line the prices are $0.50 and $2.50. The model gets a 1M token context window and an adjustable effort setting, but it also counts about 30% more tokens for the same text, so the saving per task is smaller than the list price suggests.

AnthropicOctober 8verified

Models

Mistral Large 4 opens a 1-trillion-parameter preview API at $1.36 per million input tokens

Mistral launched a public preview of Mistral Large 4 on October 6, 2026. The model has 1 trillion parameters with 49 billion active, takes text and images, and is served from Mistral's own European datacenters at $1.36 per million input tokens and $4.18 per million output tokens. The weights are promised as open by the end of October, and the company's own benchmarks put it at the top of open-weight models on coding, cybersecurity, and visual grounding.

Mistral AIOctober 7verified

Models

Free Gemini accounts drop to Flash-Lite on October 9, and AI Plus loses Pro

Google's support page lists which Gemini models each plan keeps once the October changes land. Accounts without a subscription get Flash-Lite only, AI Plus keeps Flash but loses Pro, and only AI Pro and AI Ultra keep all three. Every plan gains an effort selector, and the usage meter stays compute-based with a five-hour refresh.

Google, Gemini Apps HelpOctober 7verified

Models

Bedrock adds GLM 5.3 for approved customers and ships Nova 2.5 Sonic for voice agents

Two model additions landed on Bedrock on the same day. Z.ai's GLM 5.3 arrives with a 1 million token context and a listed price of $1.68 per million input tokens, but only for customers AWS approves. Nova 2.5 Sonic is the new speech-to-speech model, in four regions, at the same price as its predecessor, with no published benchmark. The open source Strands framework made its voice agents generally available alongside it.

AWSOctober 6verified

Agents

GitHub Copilot retires four models and makes Balanced its default code review effort

GitHub deprecated four models across all Copilot experiences on October 2, 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Kimi K2.7 Code, and Claude Opus 4.7. On the same day it made Copilot code review available through the REST and GraphQL APIs. Balanced is now the default review effort level, a change that took effect on September 28, 2026. According to GitHub's documentation, a Balanced review consumes more AI credits than a Lite one.

GitHub ChangelogOctober 4verified

Models

Google announces Gemini 4 Argon for vetted cyber defenders only, at a $2 introductory input price

Google announced Gemini 4 Argon on September 30, 2026. The model is rolling out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program, and Google gives no date for developers, enterprises, or consumers. The introductory price is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, and it rises to $4 and $20 when the introductory period ends. The output limit grows to 1 million tokens from 64,000. The benchmark results in the announcement are Google's own reporting, and nobody outside the program can check them yet.

GoogleOctober 1verified

Agents

OpenClaw 2026.9.7 adds Sign in with ChatGPT and an OpenAI Agents API plugin

OpenClaw released version 2026.9.7 on September 30, 2026. It adds Sign in with ChatGPT as a login option next to Codex login and API keys, which OpenAI says lets Plus and Pro subscribers spend their plan allowance inside OpenClaw. A new plugin runs agents through the OpenAI Agents API. Updates now back up every database before migrating, admins can limit which models a role may use, and incognito sessions expire after 24 hours.

OpenClawSeptember 30verified

Models

OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Sol at GPT-6 Sol prices and adds a $500 Pro plan with Ultrafast

GPT-6.1 Sol costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, the same as GPT-6 Sol, and its cached input drops to $0.10. OpenAI says the model comes close to GPT-6 Astra on coding and computer use at a fifth of Astra's price. The larger GPT-6.1 Astra did not ship. A new Pro 500 plan at $500 a month is the only Pro tier that includes Ultrafast, and Pro 200 returns with a smaller allowance.

OpenAISeptember 29verified

Models

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5, with input and output tokens at half the Opus 5.5 price

Claude Sonnet 5.5 keeps Sonnet 5's prices: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. That is half of what Opus 5.5 charges, while Anthropic's own benchmarks put the two models within a few points of each other. Code that turns thinking off needs a change before the switch, because the old setting now returns an error.

AnthropicSeptember 28verified

Tools

Microsoft's new Copilot app puts Cowork, Code, and Autopilot on usage-based billing

Microsoft introduced a redesigned Copilot app on September 25, 2026, with three tabs: Home, Code, and Autopilot. The per-user license still covers everyday chat and Office work. Cowork, Code, Autopilot, and frontier models such as Fable and Astra are billed by usage in Copilot Credits.

MicrosoftSeptember 26verified

Video & Image

Gemini 3.8 Live can now answer as a talking video avatar, and Google bills the video only while it speaks

Google made Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar generally available in Gemini Enterprise on September 24, 2026, with US and EU endpoints. The model replies through a lip-synced video character while it listens, watches a camera or a shared screen, and calls tools in the background. Avatar video costs $1 per million tokens at 6,192 tokens for each second of speech. By our arithmetic, that comes to about $0.37 per spoken minute before audio, input, and context charges.

GoogleSeptember 24verified

Models

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol and Luna and halves the API price of both tiers

GPT-6 Sol costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, and GPT-6 Luna costs $0.10 and $0.50. OpenAI measures the 50% cut against the promotional prices it charged for GPT-5.6. The launch also brings a reworked prompt cache with discounts of up to 90% on cached input. Every benchmark comparison with Claude comes from OpenAI and uses Opus 5, not Opus 5.5.

OpenAISeptember 24verified

Models

Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5.5 and cuts token prices by a fifth

Opus 5.5 charges $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, 20% below Opus 5. Cache reads, which dominate the bill for agentic and coding work, fall 60% to $0.20 per million. Anthropic says the model works at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks while costing 40% less to run than Opus 5. It also arrives with safeguards that reroute most cybersecurity work to Opus 4.8.

AnthropicSeptember 22verified

Agents

GitHub puts Grok 4.7 in Copilot at the same rate it charges for 4.6

GitHub started rolling out Grok 4.7 in Copilot on September 21, 2026. The model is billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing, and the documentation puts it at $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens below 200K of context, exactly what Grok 4.5 and 4.6 cost in the same table. It reaches Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise, and the model picker in eight places, from Visual Studio Code to Eclipse. For a company on Business or Enterprise, a new model switches itself on unless an administrator has already turned the default off.

GitHubSeptember 21verified

Models

TypeSafe AI opened early access to Jev, a model that returns decisions instead of text

Jev does not write sentences. It reads unstructured input and returns a value whose shape you declared in advance, with a calibrated probability attached to every field. TypeSafe AI charges $0.042 per million input tokens, charges nothing for output, and reports end-to-end response times of 70 to 500 milliseconds. The speed and cost multiples on its home page come from evaluations the company built and ran itself.

TypeSafe AISeptember 19verified

Agents

OpenAI turns the harness behind Codex into an Agents API

On September 10, 2026, OpenAI opened the Agents API in public beta, giving any developer the harness and infrastructure that already run Codex. One call creates an agent session with its task, model, tools and execution environment, and the compaction, tool search and subagent orchestration come with it. The same day, the GPT-Live-1 voice model reached the API at $0.05 per minute for the voice layer. For anyone building agents, the orchestration layer is now a purchased component rather than a written one.

OpenAISeptember 11verified

Agents

GitHub retires four Copilot models on October 2 and starts charging for seats up front on October 1

Three GitHub changelog entries landed on September 3, 2026, and together they change which models you can pick, what a new seat costs before anyone types anything, and whether you can sign up at all. Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Kimi K2.7 Code, and Claude Opus 4.7 go away on October 2, 2026, across every Copilot surface. Gemini 3.8 Flash arrives in its place on Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise. Signups for Business and Enterprise reopen for card and PayPal customers, but every assigned seat is now billed before the person using it gets access.

GitHubSeptember 4verified

Models

OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra at $10 per million input tokens, with enterprise access off by default

GPT-6 Astra went out on September 3, 2026, first to a limited set of organizations and then, over the following days, to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise. In the API it answers to the name gpt-6-astra at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, and it is also served through Microsoft Azure and Amazon Bedrock. Enterprise workspaces do not get it automatically, because access is off by default at launch and an administrator has to turn it on. OpenAI also says the extra safety checks around this model can pause work in ChatGPT and Codex and stop it outright in the API.

OpenAISeptember 4verified

Models

Gemini 3.8 Flash arrives at $0.75 per million input tokens, and that price has an end date

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash and a security variant, 3.8 Flash Cyber, on September 2, 2026. The general model costs $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, the same introductory rate Gemini 3.7 Flash launched with. Google states that the rate holds until December 31, 2026. From January 1, 2027 it becomes $1.50 and $7.50. The Cyber variant is not on the price list at all, because it is handed out through a vetted access program called Fairwind.

Google DeepMindSeptember 3verified

Models

Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5.1 and cuts the price of cache reads

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 are one model at two levels of safeguards, and only the first is generally available. The change that shows up on a bill is the cache read, which drops to $0.25 per million tokens. Anthropic estimates that as roughly 25% off a typical workload and up to about 45% off a heavily agentic one. The model is also allowed to look for software vulnerabilities now, while exploit work stays behind the older restrictions.

AnthropicSeptember 2verified

Tools

Circleback now has a free plan, and full API and MCP access starts at 15 dollars

The meeting note-taker replaced its lineup with four tiers: Free, Pro, Business and Enterprise. The free one records and transcribes without a cap on the number of meetings and keeps 30 days of history, and the release note says it is a plan rather than a trial. What it withholds is full access to the API, the Model Context Protocol server and the command-line tool. Those begin at $15 per user per month, which is where the line now runs for anyone feeding transcripts into an agent.

CirclebackSeptember 1verified

Models

Anthropic opens 10,000 Claude seats to scientists, free or $15 a month

Anthropic announced a Claude team plan for scientists on August 27: 10,000 seats worldwide for one year, standard seats free and premium seats with 5x usage limits at $15 per month. The plan is claimed by a principal investigator, who then adds their lab. Separately, the AI for Science program now takes researchers outside biology and grants up to $50,000 in credits per project. Access to models is not uniform, and the exceptions are the part worth reading.

AnthropicAugust 29verified

Agents

GitHub sets three Copilot dates: seats paid upfront, one chat policy, longer retention

One changelog entry on August 28 carries three separate changes. From September 1, new Copilot Business and Enterprise seats bought by card or PayPal must be paid for before anyone can use them, and existing card customers move to upfront charges on October 1. No earlier than September 28, chat on github.com, chat in GitHub Mobile and the cloud agent become one experience under one policy that is on by default, and chat data then stays for the life of the account instead of 28 days. On the same date, the default effort level for Copilot code review moves from Lite to Balanced.

GitHubAugust 28verified

Machines & local models

Memory sets what you can run locally, and price per token sets whether you should

A local model has one hard requirement before speed, quality or license enter the discussion: the weights have to fit in memory. That turns the machine question into arithmetic you can do on paper, and Apple's August 25 desktops give you three price points to do it against — $899 for a 32GB ceiling, $2,499 for 128GB, $5,499 for 512GB. This guide works through what fits where, which runner to use, what each size class is good for, and how many tokens it takes before a machine beats paying by the token.

Apple, OpenRouter, DeepSeekAugust 27verified

Agents

A proxy that stripped one header was doubling Claude Code's API bill

Version 2.1.239 fixes streaming on Bedrock behind proxies that remove the response Content-Type header. Claude Code silently fell back to re-running every turn without streaming, and each turn was billed twice. The same release makes cost estimates show the 1.1× premium that data-residency workspaces pay.

AnthropicAugust 24verified

Video & Image

FLUX Upscale prices video by the megapixel-second, and charges only for what comes out

Black Forest Labs released FLUX Upscale on August 20 as a standalone tool and endpoint that regenerates video up to 4K. It runs in two modes: Precise at $0.07 per megapixel-second and Creative at $0.10. The billing detail matters more than either rate, because the charge is calculated on the output alone, so the upscale factor you pick is what sets the bill.

Black Forest LabsAugust 23verified

Models

GPT-5.6 Sol drops to $4 and $20, and overtakes Claude Opus 5 on cost

OpenAI cut Sol's API price on August 21: input from $5 to $4, output from $30 to $20, cached input from $0.50 to $0.40. On a standard task the model goes from more expensive than Claude Opus 5 to cheaper than it. The cut is promotional and runs at least through November 21.

OpenAIAugust 22verified

Models

Gemini 3.7 Flash, read from Google's own numbers

Google shipped it on August 13, 2026, 23 days after Gemini 3.6 Flash, with large gains on coding and agent benchmarks and an introductory price it labels as such. All of that holds. Four things are visible only if you open the model card instead of the launch post, and one of them is a score that went down.

GoogleAugust 21verified

Models

Best cheap models for high-volume work, priced per thousand calls

Six models, one task, one number: what a thousand calls cost when each sends 4,000 tokens in and gets 800 back. The cheapest row is $1.76 and the most expensive is $16.00, a nine-fold spread rather than the hundred-fold spread the category implies. Two things move the ranking more than the headline price does, and one of them has a date on it.

Anthropic, Google, OpenAIAugust 21verified

Models

Claude Sonnet 5, read from what Anthropic publishes

Two disclosures first: this is a reading of the vendor's own evaluations rather than our test, and it is written by a model that vendor built. With both stated, the published numbers still contain three things worth noticing before you pick this model.

AnthropicAugust 21verified

Agents

Claude Code vs Cursor: same $20, different shape

Both start at $20 a month, both speak MCP, both run skills and hooks, both reach CI. The difference is not the feature list. It is whether the agent lives inside an editor you adopt or inside the terminal you already have.

Anthropic, CursorAugust 21verified

Models

Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol: which is cheaper depends on a threshold OpenAI does not publish

Sol's price cut on August 21 put it below Opus 5 on both short-context columns — $4 against $5 on input, $20 against $25 on output. Its long-context column went the other way and still costs more. Opus 5's price sits between Sol's two columns, so the cheaper model depends on which column your request lands in, and OpenAI does not say where the boundary is.

Anthropic, OpenAIAugust 21verified

Models

Cut your model bill by 89% without changing what you ship

Four levers, all published, none of them clever: cache the fixed part of your prompt, batch what can wait, drop a tier where the task allows it, and stop paying multipliers you did not ask for. Worked all the way through on one real workload.

Anthropic, OpenAIAugust 21verified

Video & Image

Best AI video generators, priced per second

Three ways to buy generated video in August 2026: per second through an API, as monthly credits with every model in one place, or as credits tuned for iteration. The same ten-second 1080p clip costs anywhere from $0.80 to $7.00 depending on which door you walk through.

Google, Runway, LumaAugust 21verified

Models

Gemini 3.7 Flash: half the price and markedly better on code

Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, just three weeks after 3.6. The gain on coding benchmarks is large: the DeepSWE v1.1 score rises from 49.0% to 65.3%, and FrontierCode 1.1 from 34.4% to 43.6%. Introductory pricing, in force through the end of 2026, is $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens — half what its predecessor launched at. The model is available through the Gemini API, in AI Studio, Android Studio, and Antigravity, and in Spark for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

9to5Google / GoogleAugust 20verified

Models

Claude Opus 5: choosing how much effort to spend, at unchanged prices

The new flagship in the Opus line lets you set how much effort it spends on a task, across three levels: low, medium, and high. That is direct control over the trade-off between cost and quality. Pricing stayed where it was with 4.8, at five dollars per million input tokens and twenty-five per million output tokens, while scores on a large share of tasks sit close to Fable. Opus 5 became the default on the Max plan and the strongest model available on Pro, and it is called in the API as claude-opus-5.

AnthropicAugust 20verified