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Pricing, plan, and cost changes across tools and models.
8 Important · 2 verdict changes · 10 FYI · 1 watching · 21 total
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OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux said on X that new sign-ups to the $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan are paused because Pro puts the most strain on OpenAI's systems, TechCrunch reports. The API, Go and Plus stay open, and no end date was given. If you wanted Pro for Astra, the API and Plus both still reach it.
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Meta now publishes two price lists for the same Muse Spark models. Standard is $1.25/$4.25 per 1M tokens with no training on your data. The Muse Spark Contributor tier is $0.10/$0.20 if Meta can train on your prompts and completions. The discount is real. So is the catch Meta buried below it: Contributor gets 100 requests per minute against Standard's 3,000.
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DeepSeek released V4 Pro GA and, per Reuters and Caixin, raised API prices up to 1,100% with peak/off-peak billing. Both DeepSeek verdicts are under re-review.
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GLM-5.3-Flash now bills at $0.15 input and $0.50 output per 1M tokens. The $0.075/$0.25 launch rate was a 50 percent promotion that ended on 9 September 2026. Full-size GLM-5.3 stays at $1.40/$4.40, and our verdict stays conditional.
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The Verge reports a refiled class action alleging Anthropic's Claude Max tiers ($100 for "5x", $200 for "20x") did not make clear the multipliers cover five-hour sessions under a weekly cap. Allegations, not findings. Read any multiplier as a window, not a month.
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OpenAI's live rate card puts GPT-5.6 Sol at $4.00 input and $20.00 output per 1M tokens on short context, with a footnote most people scroll past: the promotional pricing is available "at least through November 21, 2026." No end date is published, and no post-promotional rate. If you are sizing a Sol workload into next year, you are sizing against a number OpenAI has reserved the right to move. Our own directory entry carried $5/$30 and has been corrected.
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Anthropic permanently locked Sonnet 5 at $2/$10, scrapping the $3/$15 September hike. With OpenAI's 80% Luna cut, frontier model pricing is in freefall.
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Anthropic halted plans to charge API rates for Claude Agent SDK usage on the day the change was to take effect. Subscription caps remain, but the pricing uncertainty is not going away.
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Anthropic switched AWS enterprise to per-token CCU billing at $0.01 each. Amazon, its largest investor, is now evaluating OpenAI and Nova as alternatives.
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AI by Zapier moved from flat task-based pricing to three model tiers on June 15. The default is Advanced at 3x the base cost, and tool calls multiply on top.
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OpenRouter's pricing page now lists two pay-as-you-go tiers: Standard at a 5.5% platform fee and Business at 8%, which adds EU and US in-region routing and up to 1,000 workspaces. Our OpenRouter verdict stays conditional.
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Make's three paid tiers all list below our May record: Core $12 to $9, Pro $21 to $16, Teams $38 to $29, each showing 10,000 credits a month. Make also switched its billing unit to credits on August 27, so the allowance is not a like-for-like comparison.
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GLM-5.3 is now callable on Z.ai's API at $1.40/$4.40 per million tokens, and scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying Kimi K3's score (the top open-weights result, which GLM-5.3 joins once its weights ship).
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ChatGPT Business now offers a Premium seat tier at $125/month with 5x usage capacity and no 5-hour cap. An early-adopter promo offers up to $500 in credits for waitlist sign-ups by August 20.
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Activepieces retired per-flow pricing for a credit model. Flow runs cost 1 credit; AI steps 2–20 credits. Overage is $0.007/credit. Self-hosted Community Edition stays free.
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Alibaba plans revenue share for large Qwen3.8-Max users, following Moonshot's Kimi K3 precedent. China's open-weight free-ride may be ending.
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DeepSeek plans significant price increases across its API services, reversing the cost-cutting that made it the cheapest frontier-adjacent provider. V4 Flash and V4 Pro remain Recommended. Prices haven't changed yet, but the bargain era is now finite.
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Cursor collapsed its pricing from six tiers to four, dropping Individual to $16/mo and absorbing Pro+ ($60) and Ultra ($200). Grok model access is now included at the entry-level paid tier, the first visible integration since SpaceX's $60B acquisition.
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n8n expanded Starter AI credits from 50 to 2,300/month and Pro from 150 to 13,700, a 46–91x jump making AI workflow building practical on every plan.
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Make's credit pricing at $12–38/mo annual replaces per-operation billing. The August 2025 switch signals how automation platforms charge more for AI without raising base prices.
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Per-seat pricing is gone for new plans. Light users get cheaper, heavy agent users could pay 2-3x more.
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