AI API price changes
105 logged changes, newest first: 19 price cuts, 6 price rises, 44 launches, 15 retirements, 8 tier changes, 13 data corrections. Cuts show in blue with ▼, rises in red with ▲.
Prices checked 13 Nov 2026
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November 2026
- Gemini 4 HydrogenIn$1.50Out$7.50Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen GA at $1.50/$7.50 (1M context; cached input $0.075), also on its free tierGemini pricingLaunch
- Muse EmberIn$0.10Out$0.50Meta now offers Muse Ember, its budget model on the Meta Model API, at $0.10/$0.50 for requests up to 200K input tokens and $0.30/$1.50 above (1M context)Llama pricingLaunch
- Gemini 4 CarbonIn$2.00Out$10.00Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon GA, its most capable reasoning model, at an introductory $2/$10 (1M context) through Nov 30, 2026, with the $4/$20 list price from Dec 1, 2026Gemini pricingLaunch
- Claude Fable 5.2In$8.00Out$40.00Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.2 at $8/$40 (1M context), below Fable 5.1's $10/$50, with cache reads at $0.20/MTok and fast mode at $16/$80. Fable 5.1 moves to legacyClaude pricingLaunch
- GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI now says GPT-5.6 Sol's promotional pricing is available until Nov 30, 2026, having said earlier that it runs at least through Nov 21OpenAI pricingTier change
- Gemini 2.5 ProGemini 2.5 Flash+2 moreGoogle deprecates Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, with a Dec 1, 2026 shutdown date: from then their API requests route to Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite respectively, billed at those models' ratesGemini pricingRetired
October 2026
- Mistral Large 3Mistral Medium 3.5+1 moreMistral deprecates Mistral Large 3 and Mistral Medium 3.5, with both retiring from its API on Apr 30, 2027 and Mistral Large 4 as the named alternativeMistral pricingRetired
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite became generally available on May 7, 2026, not May 19 (our listing was wrong).Gemini pricingCorrection
- Mistral Large 4In$1.36 to $0.70down 49%Out$4.18 to $2.10down 50%Mistral now lists Mistral Large 4 at $0.70/$2.10 (from $1.36/$4.18), with cached input at $0.07Mistral pricing▼ Price cut
- GPT-6.1 TerraIn$1.00Out$5.00OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra at $1/$5 (1.05M context; cached input $0.05; $2/$7.50 above 272K)OpenAI pricingLaunch
- GPT-5.5 ProGPT-5.5 Pro bills $60/$270 for prompts over 272K input tokens (our listing was wrong).OpenAI pricingCorrection
- Grok 4.7Grok 4.6+1 morexAI now lists Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6 and Grok 4.5 for its 20% batch discountGrok pricingTier change
- Muse Spark 1.3Meta now caps Muse Spark Contributor mode at 150 requests a minute, up from 100Llama pricingTier change
- o4-miniOpenAI shuts down o4-mini; removed from our tables. GPT-5.6 Terra is OpenAI's recommended replacement. Azure keeps serving its o4-mini until 19 Nov 2026OpenAI pricingRetired
- Gemini 4 ArgonIn$2.00Out$10.00Google launches Gemini 4 Argon GA, its most capable model, at an introductory $2/$10 (1M context) through Nov 30, 2026, with the $4/$20 list price from Dec 1, 2026Gemini pricingLaunch
- Gemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3.6 FlashGoogle deprecates Gemini 3.5 Flash and routes its API requests to Gemini 3.6 Flash, its replacement; removed from our tablesGemini pricingRetired
- Claude Haiku 5.5In$0.10Out$0.50Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/$0.50 for prompts up to 100K tokens, a tenth of Haiku 4.5's $1/$5. A prompt over 100K tokens, cache reads and writes included, bills the whole request at $0.50/$2.50. 1M context, 128K max output, 50% batch discount. It ties GPT-6 Luna on short prompts; Haiku 4.5 moves to legacyClaude pricingLaunch
- Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic halves Claude Sonnet 5.5 cache reads from $0.20 to $0.10/MTok (0.05x input, the same multiplier as Opus 5.5). Token rates and cache writes are unchanged; Sonnet 5.5 now matches GPT-6.1 Sol's $0.10 cached inputClaude pricing▼ Price cut
- Mistral Large 4In$1.36Out$4.18Mistral launches Mistral Large 4 in public preview, a multimodal model with a 1M context window, at a $1.36/$4.18 list price after a two-week launch discountMistral pricingLaunch
- Azure GPT-5.5Azure GPT-5.4Azure GPT-5.5 and Azure GPT-5.4 have a 1.05M-token context window, not 1M as we listed.Azure OpenAI pricingCorrection
- The Manus free plan refreshes 300 credits a day, capped at 1,500 a month, with no starter pack.Tier change
- DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek's off-peak rate now also covers Chinese public holidays in full.DeepSeek pricingTier change
- GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI deprecates GPT-5.4 Nano, with its API shutting down on Apr 1, 2027 and GPT-6 Luna as the recommended replacementOpenAI pricingRetired
- Llama 4 MaverickIn$0.20 to $0.27up 35%Out$0.80 to $0.85up 6%DeepInfra retires Llama 4 Maverick, so the tracked rate moves to Novita at $0.27/$0.85 (from $0.20/$0.80), keeping the full 1M contextLlama pricing▲ Price rise
September 2026
- GPT-6.1 SolIn$2.00Out$10.00OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol at $2/$10 (1.05M context; cached input $0.10), replacing GPT-6 Sol a week after launch and matching Claude Sonnet 5.5's price exactlyOpenAI pricingLaunch
- Claude Sonnet 5.5In$2.00Out$10.00Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 at $2/$10 (1M context), the same price as the Sonnet 5 it replacesClaude pricingLaunch
- SonarSonar Pro+2 morePerplexity ends Sonar Chat Completions support. Sonar moves to the Agent API at $0.25/$2.50 (from $1/$1) with web search billed separately at $2.50 per 1,000 calls; Sonar Pro, Reasoning Pro and Deep Research become Agent API presets billed at the underlying model's rates, and are no longer trackedPerplexity Sonar pricingTier change
- Claude Opus 5.5In$4.00Out$20.00Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 at $4/$20 (1M context), 20% below Opus 5 on both input and output, with cache reads at $0.20/MTok (0.05x input) and fast mode at $8/$40. Opus 5 stays available at $5/$25Claude pricingLaunch
- GPT-6 LunaIn$0.10Out$0.50OpenAI launches GPT-6 Luna at $0.10/$0.50 (1.05M context), its cheapest current-generation model, alongside GPT-6 Sol at $2/$10OpenAI pricingLaunch
- Grok 4.7In$2.00Out$6.00xAI launches Grok 4.7 as its new flagship at $2/$6 (500K context; $4/$12 above 200K prompt tokens), the same rates as Grok 4.6 including $0.50 cached input. No batch discountGrok pricingLaunch
- Gemini 2.5 ProGemini 2.5 Flash+1 moreGoogle limits the Gemini 2.5 models to developers who have used them before. They are not deprecated and keep their prices, but new projects are steered to Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.8 FlashGemini pricingTier change
- SonarSonar Pro+2 morePerplexity will support its Sonar Chat Completions models only until Sep 27, 2026, as it moves users to its Agent APIPerplexity Sonar pricingRetired
- CodestralCodestral's context window is 128K, not 256K (our listing was wrong).Mistral pricingCorrection
- GPT-5.5GPT-5.5 Pro+1 moreGPT-5.5, GPT-5.5 Pro and GPT-5.4 have a 1.05M-token context window, not 1M as we listed.OpenAI pricingCorrection
- Azure o4-miniAzure retires o4-mini on 19 Nov 2026, not 23 Oct as we listed.Azure OpenAI pricingCorrection
- DeepSeek V4.1 FlashIn$0.44 to $0.30down 32%Out$1.32 to $1.20down 9%DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek V4.1 Flash replaces V4 Flash and cuts Flash rates to $0.30/$1.20 at peak ($0.15/$0.60 off-peak). V4 Pro's planned Sep 14 retirement is reversedDeepSeek pricing▼ Price cut
- GPT-6 AstraIn$10.00Out$50.00Azure GPT-6 AstraIn$10.00Out$50.00OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model, at $10/$50 (1.05M context; $20/$75 above 272K; 50% batch discount). Azure Foundry lists it at the same Global Standard rate, without batch pricingOpenAI pricingAzure OpenAI pricingLaunch
- Gemini 3.8 FlashIn$0.75Out$3.75Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash GA at an introductory $0.75/$3.75 (1M context), with the $1.50/$7.50 list price from Jan 1, 2027Gemini pricingLaunch
- Muse Spark 1.3In$1.25Out$4.25Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3 at an unchanged $1.25/$4.25; the tracked Muse Spark row moves from 1.1 to 1.3. Muse Spark 1.2 shipped Aug 5 at the same price and widened access beyond the USLlama pricingLaunch
- Claude Fable 5.1In$10.00Out$50.00Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 at the same $10/$50 as Fable 5, with cache reads cut 75% to $0.25/MTok; Fable 5 moves to legacyClaude pricingLaunch
August 2026
- GPT-5.6 SolIn$5.00 to $4.00down 20%Out$30.00 to $20.00down 33%OpenAI puts GPT-5.6 Sol on promotional pricing of $4/$20 (from $5/$30; cached input $0.40), available at least through Nov 21, 2026OpenAI pricing▼ Price cut
- DeepSeek V4 FlashIn$0.14 to $0.44up 214%Out$0.28 to $1.32up 371%DeepSeek V4 ProIn$0.435 to $1.32up 203%Out$0.87 to $3.96up 355%DeepSeek raises prices and starts peak/off-peak billing, with off-peak at half the peak rate (peak is 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC on weekdays). Peak rates: V4 Flash $0.44/$1.32 (from $0.14/$0.28) and V4 Pro $1.32/$3.96 (from $0.435/$0.87). DeepSeek is now tracked at peak ratesDeepSeek pricing▲ Price rise
- Gemini 3.6 FlashIn$1.50 to $0.75down 50%Out$7.50 to $3.75down 50%Gemini 3.7 FlashIn$0.75Out$3.75Google halves Gemini 3.6 Flash to an introductory $0.75/$3.75 through Dec 31, 2026 (the $1.50/$7.50 list price returns Jan 1, 2027) and ships Gemini 3.7 Flash GA at the same introductory rateGemini pricing▼ Price cut
- Grok 4.6In$2.00Out$6.00xAI launches Grok 4.6 as its new flagship at $2/$6 (500K context; $4/$12 above 200K prompt tokens), the same token rates as Grok 4.5 but with cached input at $0.50 instead of $0.30. No batch discountGrok pricingLaunch
- Claude Sonnet 5In$2.00Out$10.00Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's $2/$10 launch rate permanent — the scheduled Sep 1 increase to $3/$15 will not occur. Sonnet 5 was previously tracked at its $3/$15 list priceClaude pricing▼ Price cut
- Llama 3.3 70BIn$0.23 to $0.10down 57%Out$0.40 to $0.32down 20%Llama 3.1 8BIn$0.03 to $0.02down 33%Out$0.06 to $0.04down 33%Meta hosted rates re-baselined against DeepInfra: Llama 3.3 70B falls to $0.10/$0.32 (-57% input) and Llama 3.1 8B to $0.02/$0.04, the cheapest rate trackedLlama pricing▼ Price cut
- Llama 4 MaverickIn$0.15 to $0.20up 33%Out$0.60 to $0.80up 33%Llama 4 ScoutIn$0.08 to $0.10up 25%Out$0.30Meta hosted rates rise for the Llama 4 pair: Maverick to $0.20/$0.80 (+33% input) and Scout to $0.10/$0.30 (+25% input)Llama pricing▲ Price rise
- DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek announces 2x peak-hour pricing for 09:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00 Beijing time; start date not yet confirmed, so listed rates are unchangedDeepSeek pricingTier change
July 2026
- Magistral Medium 1.2Mistral schedules Magistral Medium 1.2 for retirement; reasoning folds into Mistral Medium 3.5 / Small 4 via reasoning_effortMistral pricingRetired
- Magistral Medium 1.2Magistral Small 1.2+1 moreMistral retires Magistral Medium 1.2, Magistral Small 1.2 and Devstral 2 on the same day. Magistral Medium left the comparison table then; Magistral Small (added in error on Aug 4) and Devstral 2 were removed from our tables in September 2026Mistral pricingRetired
- GPT-5.6 LunaIn$1.00 to $0.20down 80%Out$6.00 to $1.20down 80%GPT-5.6 TerraIn$2.50 to $2.00down 20%Out$15.00 to $12.00down 20%OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna 80% ($1/$6 to $0.20/$1.20) and GPT-5.6 Terra 20% ($2.50/$15 to $2/$12), three weeks after the family's GA. Luna is now OpenAI's cheapest model and Terra undercuts GPT-5.4 on both input and outputOpenAI pricing▼ Price cut
- Sonar Deep ResearchIn$2.00Out$8.00Perplexity Sonar Deep Research now tracked at $2/$8, plus $2/MTok citation tokens, $3/MTok reasoning tokens and $5 per 1,000 searchesPerplexity Sonar pricingLaunch
- DeepSeek R1-0528DeepSeek retires R1-0528 from its first-party API (deepseek-reasoner alias deprecates 2026-07-24); removed from the comparison tableDeepSeek pricingRetired
- Claude Opus 5In$5.00Out$25.00Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 ($5/$25, 1M context) — new Opus flagship at the same price as Opus 4.8, with fast mode at $10/$50 and a 512-token prompt-cache minimumClaude pricingLaunch
- o4-miniAzure o4-miniOpenAI confirms o4-mini API shutdown for 2026-10-23; recommended migration is GPT-5.6 Terra. Still listed at $1.10/$4.40 on the standard pricing table until thenOpenAI pricingAzure OpenAI pricingRetired
- Gemini 3.6 FlashIn$1.50Out$7.50Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteIn$0.30Out$2.50Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash ($1.50/$7.50, 1M context) — same input as 3.5 Flash with output cut from $9 to $7.50 — and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite ($0.30/$2.50) GAGemini pricingLaunch
- Devstral 2In$0.40Out$2.00Mistral adds Devstral 2, an open-weight agentic coding model at $0.40/$2.00 (256K context), alongside the Mistral Vibe CLIMistral pricingLaunch
- GPT-5.6 SolIn$5.00Out$30.00GPT-5.6 TerraIn$2.50Out$15.00+1 moreOpenAI GPT-5.6 family GA - Sol $5/$30, Terra $2.50/$15, Luna $1/$6 (1.05M context). New cache-write charge at 1.25x input; cached reads 10% of input.OpenAI pricingLaunch
- Muse Spark 1.1In$1.25Out$4.25Meta opens its first paid first-party API — Muse Spark 1.1 at $1.25/$4.25 (1M context), US developers only in public previewLlama pricingLaunch
- Grok 4.5In$2.00Out$6.00xAI launches Grok 4.5 - new flagship at $2/$6 (500K context; $4/$12 above 200K prompt tokens). Cached input $0.30, no batch discount, not yet available in the EU.Grok pricingLaunch
- Claude Sonnet 5In$2.00Out$10.00Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 now tracked at its effective $2/$10 rate, launched as introductory pricing and made permanent on Aug 11, 2026; adaptive thinking on by defaultClaude pricingLaunch
- GPT-5.5 ProIn$30.00Out$180.00OpenAI adds GPT-5.5 Pro ($30/$180, 1M context) — highest-precision flagship variantOpenAI pricingLaunch
- Azure GPT-5.5In$5.00Out$30.00Azure adds GPT-5.5 ($5/$30, 1M context) to Foundry Global StandardAzure OpenAI pricingLaunch
- Llama 3.3 70BIn$0.88 to $0.23down 74%Out$0.88 to $0.40down 55%Llama 3.3 70B: commodity host rates fall to ~$0.23/$0.40 (DeepInfra); $0.88 is now Together-onlyLlama pricing▼ Price cut
- Llama 3.1 8BIn$0.03Out$0.06Meta budget slot updated to Llama 3.1 8B — 128K context, ~$0.03/$0.06 on hosted providers (supersedes Llama 3 8B / 8K)Llama pricingLaunch
- Mistral Small 4Mistral Small 4 is $0.15/$0.60 per MTok with a 256K-token context window, not $0.10/$0.30 and 128K as we listed (our listing was wrong).Mistral pricingCorrection
- Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Pro have a 1M-token context window (our listing was wrong).Gemini pricingCorrection
- GPT-5.4 MiniGPT-5.4 Nano+2 moreGPT-5.4 mini, GPT-5.4 nano, Azure GPT-5.2 and Azure GPT-5-mini have a 400K-token context window (our listing was wrong).OpenAI pricingAzure OpenAI pricingCorrection
- Azure GPT-5.4Azure GPT-5.4 has a 1M-token context window (our listing was wrong).Azure OpenAI pricingCorrection
- Magistral Medium 1.2Magistral Medium 1.2 has a 128K-token context window (our listing was wrong).Mistral pricingCorrection
- o4-miniOpenAI o4-mini marked legacy — superseded by GPT-5 mini; still served on the APIOpenAI pricingRetired
June 2026
- Anthropic retires legacy Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 — recommended replacements are Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 4.6Retired
- Claude Fable 5In$10.00Out$50.00Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 ($10/$50, 1M context) — public Mythos-class model, new top tier above OpusClaude pricingLaunch
- o4-minio4-mini is $1.10/$4.40 per MTok, not $4/$16 as we listed (our listing was wrong).OpenAI pricingCorrection
- Gemini 2.0 FlashGemini 2.0 Flash shutdown — removed from the comparison tableGemini pricingRetired
May 2026
- CodestralIn$0.40 to $0.30down 25%Out$2.00 to $0.90down 55%Mistral Small 4+1 moreMistral: Codestral $0.4/$2→$0.3/$0.9, Mistral Small 4 $0.15/$0.6→$0.1/$0.3; Large 3 context to 256KMistral pricing▼ Price cut
- Mistral Medium 3.5In$1.50Out$7.50Magistral Medium 1.2In$2.00Out$5.00Mistral adds Medium 3.5 ($1.50/$7.50) and Magistral Medium 1.2 reasoning model ($2/$5)Mistral pricingLaunch
- Llama 4 MaverickIn$0.275 to $0.15down 45%Out$1.10 to $0.60down 45%Llama 4 Maverick hosted rates fall to ~$0.15/$0.60 on DeepInfra/OpenRouterLlama pricing▼ Price cut
- Azure GPT-5.4In$2.50Out$15.00Azure adds GPT-5.4 ($2.50/$15, 272K) as its newest hosted GPT; GPT-5.2 moves to previous-genAzure OpenAI pricingLaunch
- Claude Opus 4.8In$5.00Out$25.00Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8 — same $5/$25 price; new tokenizer carried over from 4.7Claude pricingLaunch
- DeepSeek V4 ProIn$0.435Out$0.87DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro 75% price cut permanent — $0.435/$0.87 is now the standard rateDeepSeek pricing▼ Price cut
- Gemini 3.5 FlashIn$1.50Out$9.00Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash ($1.50/$9) at I/O 2026Gemini pricingLaunch
- Grok 4.1 FastGrok 4xAI retires Grok 4.1 Fast, Grok 4 and Grok 3 — slugs now redirect to Grok 4.3Grok pricingRetired
- Grok 4.3In$1.25Out$2.50Grok 4.3 gets API token pricing ($1.25/$2.50, 1M context); xAI ships the Grok Build 0.1 coding modelGrok pricingLaunch
- Grok 4.20In$2.00 to $1.25down 38%Out$6.00 to $2.50down 58%Grok 4.20: input $2→$1.25, output $6→$2.50 (matches Grok 4.3); context revised 2M→1MGrok pricing▼ Price cut
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteIn$0.25Out$1.50Google makes Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite generally available at $0.25/$1.50Gemini pricingLaunch
April 2026
- Gemini 2.0 FlashGemini 2.0 Flash deprecated — full shutdown June 1, 2026Gemini pricingRetired
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteIn$0.10Out$0.40Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite GA at $0.10/$0.40Gemini pricingLaunch
- Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 3 Flash PreviewGemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 3 Flash Preview now availableGemini pricingLaunch
- DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek cache-hit input drops to $0.0028/MTok (one-tenth of launch rates)DeepSeek pricing▼ Price cut
- DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek releases V4 Flash and V4 Pro with 1M context windowDeepSeek pricingLaunch
- DeepSeek V4 FlashIn$0.14Out$0.28DeepSeek V4 Flash launches at $0.14/$0.28 — 50% cheaper than V3/R1's unified pricingDeepSeek pricing▼ Price cut
- GPT-5.5In$5.00Out$30.00OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 ($5/$30, 1M context) — new flagship above GPT-5.4OpenAI pricingLaunch
- xAI launches Grok 4.3 Beta on SuperGrok Heavy ($300/mo subscription, no API token pricing yet)Launch
- Claude Opus 4.7In$5.00Out$25.00Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 — same $5/$25 price but new tokenizer uses up to 35% more tokensClaude pricingLaunch
- Llama 4 ScoutLlama 4 MaverickMeta releases Llama 4 Scout (10M context) and finalises MaverickLlama pricingLaunch
- Google releases Gemma 4 open-source family under Apache 2.0 (E2B/E4B/26B/31B)Launch
- Gemini 2.5 FlashIn$0.30Out$0.60 to $2.50up 317%Gemini 2.5 Flash: output now includes thinking tokens ($0.60 → $2.50/MTok)Gemini pricing▲ Price rise
- Gemini 2.0 FlashGemini 2.0 Flash is $0.10/$0.40 per MTok, not $0.075/$0.15 as we listed (our listing was wrong).Gemini pricingCorrection
- DeepSeek V3In$0.28Out$0.42DeepSeek R1In$0.55 to $0.28down 49%Out$2.19 to $0.42down 81%DeepSeek: unified pricing — V3 & R1 both now $0.28/$0.42, R1 output -81%DeepSeek pricing▼ Price cut
- Llama 3.3 70BIn$0.71 to $0.88up 24%Out$0.71 to $0.88up 24%Llama 3.3 70B: reverted to $0.88/$0.88 on Together.aiLlama pricing▲ Price rise
March 2026
- Claude Haiku 4.5In$0.80 to $1.00up 25%Out$4.00 to $5.00up 25%Haiku 4.5: input +25%, output +25%Claude pricing▲ Price rise
- Gemini 2.0 FlashGemini 2.0 Flash: input -25%, output -25%Gemini pricing▼ Price cut
- Mistral Large 3In$0.60 to $0.50down 17%Out$1.80 to $1.50down 17%Mistral Large: input -17%, output -17%Mistral pricing▼ Price cut
- Llama 3.3 70BIn$0.88 to $0.71down 19%Out$0.88 to $0.71down 19%Llama 3.3 70B: input -19%, output -19%Llama pricing▼ Price cut