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OpenAI: All Four Tiers Priced Up#
All four OpenAI tiers moved up: the workhorse more than tripled from its GPT-5 low, and Astra jumped to $20.Draft, pending review
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The Pro tier was repositioned and then climbed back to $68 generation by generation; the workhorse rose 227% from its GPT-5 low and Astra jumped to $20; nano rose 236%.
Source: FinSight compilation and estimates · Updated 2026-09-04
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Anthropic: List Prices Cut Across the Board, and Fable Opens a New Price Band#
Anthropic cut list prices across the board, then opened a new $20 band with Fable.Draft, pending review
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Opus went from $30 to $10, Sonnet from $6 to $4, Haiku flat at $2. Fable 5.1 kept its list price but cut cache reads from $1 to $0.25, the first break from the 10%-of-input convention.
Source: FinSight compilation and estimates · Updated 2026-09-04
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Google: All Three Tiers Priced Up#
All three Google tiers rose; Flash went from $0.175 to $3, then halved to $1.5 with a new generation, still a much higher entry price.Draft, pending review
Source: FinSight compilation and estimates · Updated 2026-09-04
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xAI: Challenger-Style Cuts Across the Board#
xAI first traded price for volume, cutting its workhorse from $8 to $1.56, then settled at $3 and competes on more intelligence at the same price.Draft, pending review
Source: FinSight compilation and estimates · Updated 2026-09-04
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China vendors
DeepSeek: Volatile, Net Higher#
DeepSeek is volatile but net higher; the August increase shows in September list prices, and V4-Flash took over the low-price role.Draft, pending review
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The R1 reasoning line was folded into V3.2; V4-Flash took over the low-price role. September list prices: V4-Pro at $1.98 peak, V4-Flash at $0.66, with off-peak at half.
Source: Published model pricing and the Artificial Analysis index; FinSight compilation · Updated 2026-09-04
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Kimi: Steepest Price Climb From Flagship to Flagship#
Kimi has the steepest flagship climb: K3 jumped to $6, straight into the US price band.Draft, pending review
Source: FinSight compilation and estimates · Updated 2026-09-04
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GLM: Flagship Up, Lightweight Down (a Barbell)#
GLM runs a barbell: the flagship more than doubled to charge for capability, while the lightweight line cut prices to win volume.Draft, pending review
Source: FinSight compilation and estimates · Updated 2026-09-04
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Qwen: Max Up, Plus and Turbo Frozen#
Qwen's Max moved up and then came back down, while Plus and Turbo have been frozen for a long time.Draft, pending review
Source: FinSight compilation and estimates · Updated 2026-09-04
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