AI pricing briefing archive

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Published briefings

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Week 43 · October 19-25, 2026 · Latest briefing

OpenAI 12-hour prompt caching rates, Mistral Large 4 back at list price after its launch offer, and new Voxtral 3, GLM 5.3 Flash and Eleven Realtime rate cards. One launch discount ended, one new caching option and three new rate cards.

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Published

Week 42 · October 12-18, 2026

The X Subscription bundles Grok, Cursor and X Premium, Gemini 4 Argon introductory API pricing, and Claude Opus 5.5 Fast mode rates. One plan restructure, one new rate card and one premium speed option.

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Published

Week 41 · October 5-11, 2026

Sonnet cache-read costs, eligible Claude API credits and account-specific Gemini access. Three distinct wallet effects, with eligibility and source qualifications.

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Week 40 · September 28 to October 4, 2026

GPT-6.1 Sol cache-read pricing, optional Astra Ultrafast API rates and eligible Copilot next-cycle upfront billing. Three cost-choice and billing events.

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Published

Week 39 · September 21-27, 2026

Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol/Luna API launches, Anthropic refusal billing, and the September 21 xAI X Search billing change.

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Published

Week 38 · September 14-20, 2026

Copilot cost-aware Auto and approved budget increases; Gemini 3.8 Live paid-tier token rates. Incomplete reporting week, checked through September 19.

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Published

Week 37 · September 7-13, 2026

Lower DeepSeek Flash rates, GPT-Live voice-session charges and future Rosalind billing. Coverage through September 13, 01:05 UTC.

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Week 36 · August 31-September 6, 2026

Source-backed briefing covering lower Fable 5.1 cache-hit pricing, an xAI image endpoint migration, and Suno download limits.

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Published

Week 35 · August 24-30, 2026

Source-backed light-week briefing covering API transcription costs and one same-price model migration.

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Week 34 · August 17-23, 2026

Source-backed briefing covering one API rate cut and one billing-timing change.

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Week 33 · August 10-16, 2026

Source-backed briefing covering DeepSeek V4 API rates, Claude Sonnet 5 pricing, and Suno download caps.

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Week 32 · August 3-9, 2026

Source-backed briefing covering verified pricing developments and plan changes.

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Week 31 · July 27-August 2, 2026

Source-backed briefing covering verified pricing developments and plan changes.

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Draft archive

Draft · source reconciliation pending

Week 30 · July 20-26, 2026

Source reconciliation pending. This draft is not indexed.

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Week 29 · July 13-19, 2026

Source reconciliation pending. This draft is not indexed.

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Draft · source reconciliation pending

Week 28 · July 7-12, 2026

Source reconciliation pending. This draft is not indexed.

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