AI pricing news

Launches, price changes and retirements, with the numbers and a source for each.

Launch22 Oct 2026
Claude Haiku 5.5 Launch: Cheap Tokens and the 100K-Prompt Catch
Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 / $0.50 per 1M tokens for prompts up to 100K, 90% less than Haiku 4.5. The long-prompt catch, benchmarks and costs.
Launch22 Oct 2026
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Launch: Benchmarks, Speed and Cost per Task
Claude Sonnet 5.5 launched at $2 / $10 per 1M tokens, the same as Sonnet 5, and cached input is now $0.10. Benchmarks, speed and what it costs to run.
Roundup22 Oct 2026
September 2026 AI Pricing Roundup: GPT-6, Opus 5.5 and Cheaper Flash Models
Every AI price change in September 2026: GPT-6, Claude Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Grok 4.7 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and what comes next.
Launch22 Oct 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 Launch: 20% Cheaper Than Opus 5
Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4 per 1M input tokens and $20 per 1M output, 20% less than Opus 5, with cached input at $0.20. How it compares with Fable 5.1 and GPT-6.
News27 Sep 2026
Anthropic Suspends Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Access After US Government Directive
Anthropic suspended Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on 12 June 2026 after a US government directive. What happened, why, and how access was restored on 1 July.
News27 Sep 2026
June 2026 AI Pricing Roundup: A New Flagship Tier Emerges
June 2026 AI API prices: Claude Fable 5 at $10 / $50, GPT-5.5 at $5 / $30, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Grok 4.3 and DeepSeek V4, with per-million-token costs.

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