From 16:00 UTC on 22 August, off-peak rates cover all of Saturday and Sunday. Off-peak V4-Pro output costs $1.98 per million tokens; before 16 August the flat rate was $0.87.
Aug 23, 2026
A widely shared 'OpenAI cuts prices 50%' is a discount at one gateway. Call the API directly and you still pay $5 and $30.
Aug 18, 2026
Free and Go accounts get unlimited text chats and GPT-5.6 Luna as the default. Neither ships this week, and the reasoning models stay behind the subscription.
Aug 9, 2026
Muse Code arrived in early beta on 5 August, running on Muse Spark 1.2. List pricing is $1.25 and $4.25 per million tokens; the Contributor tier drops that to $0.10 and $0.20 in exchange for telemetry on your work.
Aug 6, 2026
Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts output pricing to $7.50 per million tokens and advances its knowledge cutoff to March 2026, while a gated Flash Cyber variant goes only to governments and trusted partners.
Jul 22, 2026
At WAIC, executives signaled a shift away from uniform low prices toward segmentation, splitting the market into cheap mass tiers, pricier premium plans and free quotas for light users.
Jul 19, 2026
On July 13 Anthropic began showing Indian rupee prices for Claude Pro, Max and Team on its site and apps — a localized-conversion push in a country that now accounts for about 5.8% of Claude usage.
Jul 13, 2026
In a combative CNBC interview, Alex Karp said enterprises pay for 'tokens that create no value' while AI labs harvest their data — as Palantir pitches an air-gapped alternative.
Jul 6, 2026
