Pricing
98 briefings
November 2026 · 6
- Nov 6Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available at $0.07 per second of 720p video (Nov 5)
- Nov 5Apple is cutting engineers' daily AI spending cap, Bloomberg reports (Nov 4)
- Nov 4Anthropic removes fast mode for claude-opus-4-8 on Nov 30 (Oct 30)
- Nov 3Cognition adds hierarchical budgets to Devin, and a session stops when its budget runs out (Nov 2)
- Nov 2Google Cloud spend caps reach general availability with an API and automatic monthly resets (Oct 30)
- Nov 1ChatGPT and Codex share one token budget from December, and paid accounts get device limits (Nov 1)
October 2026 · 21
- Oct 31Anthropic renames Max 5x to Max and Max 20x to Ultra, and removes the rolling five-hour cap for verified Ultra users
- Oct 30OpenAI doubles Pro and Business Premium usage limits after backlash over a planned 50% cut (Oct 29)
- Oct 29GitHub Copilot Fusion is generally available: one picker entry that routes and orchestrates models per task
- Oct 28Gemini API stores Generate Content requests by default for new paid projects
- Oct 27OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra at $1 and $5 per million tokens, half its siblings, with a safety report that flags workarounds
- Oct 26Cloudflare's Auto Router rates each request for stakes and picks a model, and its own benchmark shows a loss
- Oct 25OpenAI is buying share with discounts of up to 90 percent, The Information reports
- Oct 24Moonshot ships Kimi K3.1 Pro at the same price as GPT-6.1 Sol
- Oct 23OpenAI makes the Decisions API generally available with gpt-6-luna
- Oct 21Mistral launches Voxtral 3, a voice-agent stack with transcription from $0.0035 a minute
- Oct 20Update — MiniMax M3.1 Flash weights are due Oct 23, with prices at $0.15 in and $0.60 out per million tokens
- Oct 19Gemini 4 Argon costs half of Opus 5.5 until Nov 30, then matches it
- Oct 18DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 ships with open weights, a self-reported cost-per-task lead and new paid Search/Fetch APIs
- Oct 17Anthropic deprecates claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929, retiring Nov 30 (tentative), with claude-sonnet-5-5 as the replacement
- Oct 16GitHub makes agentic autofix and AI Scan for pull requests generally available, both billed in Code Security AI credits
- Oct 15xAI ships Grok Voice 3.0 at $0.08 per minute, unchanged from 2.0
- Oct 14OpenAI sets Jan 14, 2027 shutdown for the GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 families
- Oct 13Meta Muse Wonder / Wonder Full
- Oct 11OpenAI: new deprecation batch
- Oct 4Google: free Gemini app tier limited to Flash-Lite
- Oct 1Gemini 4 Argon
September 2026 · 19
- Sep 30GPT-6.1 Sol
- Sep 29Claude Sonnet 5.5
- Sep 27Anthropic resumes billing for refused Claude API requests in 3 of 5 refusal categories
- Sep 24Alibaba Qwen-Audio-3.1: five models and deep price cuts
- Sep 23Claude Opus 5.5 takes #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- Sep 22OpenAI retires GPT-5.5 from ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex on Oct 14 — the API is unaffected
- Sep 20Gemini autonomously hacked three real companies during an Irregular red-team evaluation — guessing passwords in one case, pulling…
- Sep 16Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
- Sep 15Gemini: gemini-omni-flash-preview shuts down Sep 30
- Sep 14Update — Anthropic's Claude Code weekly limit change takes effect today
- Sep 13OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 hit the public API at $0.05/min — and the first practitioner field report is unflattering
- Sep 11Sakana split Fugu into Max and Ultra v2 — an orchestration model that now explicitly excludes three frontier models from its pool
- Sep 9OpenAI is pitching outcome-based pricing and vertical AI, and says an 80% price cut on Luna produced 10x usage
- Sep 8OpenAI: the Videos API and all Sora 2 models are removed on Sep 24 — with no successor
- Sep 6Update — Astra's rollout is narrower than the launch post implied: it is not in the ChatGPT Plus model picker
- Sep 5GitHub ships Project HydraFusion: multi-model orchestration beats Opus 5 at a third of the cost
- Sep 4GPT-6 Astra
- Sep 2Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1
- Sep 1Anthropic: Claude Code weekly limits drop ~17% on September 14
August 2026 · 20
- Aug 31OpenAI retired the official DALL·E GPT in ChatGPT on Saturday
- Aug 30Claude Code v2.1.247 adds /claude-api cost-optimize, a guided pass over your own API spend
- Aug 29Gemini Omni Flash goes GA; the preview endpoint dies September 30
- Aug 28AWS shuts down Mechanical Turk, SageMaker Ground Truth and Augmented AI on September 30
- Aug 27Google: gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview shuts down Monday, Aug 31
- Aug 26FTC proposes an enforcement policy on personalized pricing — comments close Sept 18
- Aug 25Alibaba ships Wan3.0 out of beta: 30-second clips, and documents as a generation input
- Aug 25OpenAI: the Luna 80% cut is "a permanent price correction," per the head of product
- Aug 24Anthropic: the Sonnet 5 price increase is canceled — $2/$10 is now permanent
- Aug 23Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku is shut down on Vertex AI today
- Aug 22Ramp — Router, a multi-provider LLM gateway
- Aug 22OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol drops over 20%, for three months
- Aug 21Linear: coding sessions move to pass-through token pricing plus metered sandbox time
- Aug 20Microsoft: Excel's =COPILOT() function is retired Sept 14, before it ever shipped GA
- Aug 18Anthropic: the Sep 1 Sonnet 5 increase is canceled (correction)
- Aug 16Microsoft's Agent Framework harness and Foundry Hosted Agents hit GA — a supported agent runtime with approvals, telemetry, and a built-in…
- Aug 14US labs cut prices as Chinese rivals gain
- Aug 12Google Cloud: Imagen 4 shuts down Aug 17 (Gemini API)
- Aug 12Google Cloud: Claude 3 Haiku on Vertex AI shuts down Aug 23
- Aug 1OpenAI: Assistants API fully removed Aug 26
July 2026 · 16
- Jul 31OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra −20%, Luna −80%, plus "Fast Mode"
- Jul 25Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5
- Jul 24DeepSeek V4 GA expected this week (WAIC-timed) — brings peak/off-peak API pricing
- Jul 23OpenAI retires ~15 legacy model snapshots today
- Jul 22Google launches the Gemini 3.6 Flash family
- Jul 21DeepSeek deprecates deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner
- Jul 19Claude Sonnet 5: introductory pricing ends Aug 31, then a 50% step-up
- Jul 14Anthropic extends free Fable 5 for paid plans to Jul 19; hard price wall after
- Jul 13DeepSeek retires legacy API model names on Jul 24
- Jul 10Meta ships Muse Spark 1.1 — its first paid model
- Jul 9OpenAI self-serve fine-tuning: hard cutoff Jan 6, 2027
- Jul 8OpenAI Assistants API: hard shutdown Aug 26
- Jul 7Chinese open-weight models surge in U.S. production use
- Jul 6Anthropic: fast mode for Claude Opus 4.7 removed Jul 24
- Jul 5Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 exits subscription inclusion after July 7
- Jul 2OpenAI: self-serve fine-tuning wind-down — next cutoff today
June 2026 · 7
- Jun 30Cursor overhauls Teams pricing; new structure hits on renewal from Jul 1
- Jun 28OpenAI retires GPT-4.5 from ChatGPT
- Jun 27OpenAI previews GPT-5.6: Sol, Terra, and Luna
- Jun 23DeepSeek retires legacy API aliases after Jul 24
- Jun 18Google: Gemini CLI & Code Assist retired June 18; Antigravity CLI is the replacement
- Jun 15Anthropic's programmatic-usage billing split takes effect TODAY (Jun 15) — Agent SDK, claude -p, Claude Code GitHub Actions, and…
- Jun 1GitHub Copilot: usage-based billing now live
May 2026 · 4
April 2026 · 5
- Apr 22Anthropic Claude Haiku 3 fully retired
- Apr 13Google: Gemini free tier restricted
- Apr 7Google Gemini API — billing overhaul
- Apr 6Anthropic cuts OpenClaw from Claude subscriptions (Apr 4) — third-party tool users face up to 50x cost increase
- Apr 5Anthropic cuts OpenClaw from Claude subscriptions (Apr 4) — third-party tool users face up to 50x cost increase