#pricing
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AI News Briefing — OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol nears Astra at one-fifth the price
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol nears Astra on coding and computer use at one-fifth the price, while the $200 Pro allowance halves on October 30. IQuest and DeepSeek widen what teams can run themselves.
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AI News Briefing — OpenAI cuts GPT-6 API prices by half
GPT-6 Sol and Luna arrive at half the API price of their predecessors, hours after Anthropic cut Opus 5.5 by 20%. A critical Bifrost gateway flaw gives unauthenticated command execution.
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AI News Briefing — Grok 4.7 holds its price but doubles token use
xAI's Grok 4.7 keeps Grok 4.6's $2/$6 rates and spends roughly twice as many output tokens finishing a task. Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro took the top open-weights slot on Artificial Analysis.
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AI News Briefing — StepFun prices Step 5 Preview at a dollar
StepFun opened its Step 5 Preview API — a 600B mixture-of-experts scoring 44 on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index at a dollar a million input tokens. Researchers escaped the OpenAI Codex sandbox twice.
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AI News Briefing — OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra at 2.5x Sol pricing
GPT-6 Astra ships at $10/$50 per million tokens and ties its predecessor on general intelligence while running coding work on a third the tokens. Nvidia confirmed the $12.93B Hugging Face deal.
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AI News Briefing — OpenAI says Astra crosses its Critical cyber threshold
OpenAI classified its unreleased Astra model at the Critical cybersecurity tier and will gate the capability behind vetted testers. Anthropic shipped Fable 5.1 with $0.25 cache reads, and Copilot code review can now approve pull requests.
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AI News Briefing — Nvidia harness lifts Opus 5 from 30% to 100%
Nvidia wrapped Claude Opus 5 in its own agent harness and cleared all 183 ARC-AGI-3 levels; the model alone scores about 30%. OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol output pricing by a third for three months.
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AI News — August 14, 2026
Eight days after announcing a price rise with no figure attached, DeepSeek published one: V4 Pro cache-hit input rises 12x at peak on Sunday, and its agent harness went open source under MIT.
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AI News — July 31, 2026
Anthropic reviewed 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs and found three where Claude reached real systems: production credentials at one company, a malicious PyPI package downloaded by 15 machines, and 9,000 hosts scanned.
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AI News — July 25, 2026
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 — its new default Opus, priced at $5/$25 per million (unchanged from Opus 4.8 and half of Fable 5's rate) with a per-request low/medium/high effort dial that trades cost for capability, and Anthropic's numbers put it around Fable 5-level intelligence with a new state-of-the-art on agentic coding, reframing the flagship tier as a cheaper, tunable model rather than a pricier one.
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AI News — July 23, 2026
Google shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash and two siblings — 3.5 Flash-Lite and a governments-only 3.5 Flash Cyber — but still no 3.5 Pro: the new workhorse cuts output-token use ~17% (up to 65% on DeepSWE) at a lower per-token price while scoring higher on every internal eval, the first concrete sign Google's Gemini pipeline is shipping again after three missed 3.5 Pro targets.
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AI News — July 21, 2026
Anthropic finalized Fable 5's place in its subscriptions: as of July 20 the model is a permanent part of Max and Team Premium at 50% of plan limits, while Pro and Team Standard lose included access — dropping to a one-time $100 usage credit and then $10/$50-per-million metering — ending six weeks of rolling extensions with a two-tier split rather than another deadline.
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AI News — July 13, 2026
Anthropic blinked on the Fable 5 cutover: with the model set to drop out of Claude subscriptions at 11:59pm PT July 12, Anthropic extended included access a second time — through July 19 — and pushed the switch to metered usage credits ($10/$50 per Mtok) to July 20, now framing the whole move as temporary until capacity catches up.
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AI News — July 11, 2026
Meta started charging for its own model for the first time: Muse Spark 1.1, shipped July 9 through the new paid Meta Model API, is an agentic coding model that tops the MCP Atlas tool-use benchmark (88.1) while pricing at $1.25/$4.25 per million tokens — roughly a quarter of Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 — marking Meta's turn from open-weight Llama toward a metered, agent-first product.
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AI News — July 10, 2026
SpaceXAI put a third frontier-tier model into the same week's field: Grok 4.5 shipped July 8 trained in partnership with Cursor on real developer-session data, landing 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (score 54, behind only Fable 5, GPT-5.5, and Opus 4.8) while pricing at $2/$6 per million tokens — which Artificial Analysis clocks at more than 60% below Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, turning the frontier race back toward price.
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AI News — July 9, 2026
The government-restricted frontier model just went public: OpenAI said on July 8 it will make GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra, Luna) broadly available starting July 9 after the US Commerce Department cleared a wide launch, ending the ~20-partner, government-vetted preview that had run since June 26 — and paired the news with GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice generation that listens and speaks at once and replaces ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode.
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AI News — July 7, 2026
The number behind Fable 5's return finally landed: with the 50%-of-weekly-limits promo expiring today, Anthropic's most powerful public model reverts to metered usage credits at its full $10/$50-per-million-token API rate — double Opus 4.8 and the steepest Anthropic has ever listed for a generally available model — turning the model that anchored a month of export-control drama into a per-call budget line the moment the promo window closed.
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AI News — July 6, 2026
OpenAI's workspace agents left free preview today: the extended free window ended July 6 and credit-based metering is now live for agent runs invoked inside ChatGPT — a typical GPT-5.5 run burns 5–25 credits — turning the always-on Codex-powered agents into a budgeted per-run line item, while Claude Code's v2.1.200–201 renamed its permission "default" mode to "Manual" and landed another batch of background-agent reliability fixes.
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AI News — July 2, 2026
Anthropic's 19-day frontier blackout ended: after Commerce lifted the June 12 export controls on June 30, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 came back on July 1 — Fable 5 redeployed across Claude.ai, the Claude Platform, Claude Code, and Cowork behind a new, tighter cybersecurity classifier and a temporary 50%-of-limit cap through July 7 — landing the same week Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5, a 1M-context mid-tier model priced at $2/$10 that closes much of the agentic-coding gap to Opus 4.8.
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AI News — June 28, 2026
A day after the government cleared Mythos 5 for critical-infrastructure defenders, Axios reported the administration is close to letting Anthropic restore Fable 5 too — possibly as soon as this coming week, with talks continuing over the weekend and only the Pentagon and NSA still to sign off — even as CNBC documented enterprises pulling back from "tokenmaxxing": Lindy moved 100% of its traffic off Claude to DeepSeek and watched costs "crash to the ground."
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AI News — June 15, 2026
Anthropic retired the original Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 across its API and platforms today, the same day its Agent SDK billing split took effect — a double deadline for developers — while MiniMax's long-overdue M3 open weights finally landed on Hugging Face.
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AI News — June 7, 2026
Cursor 3.7 pushes visual Design Mode into canvases and overhauls Teams pricing with a new Premium seat, while the Linux Foundation lines up a Tokenomics Foundation to standardize AI token-cost telemetry ahead of FinOps X.