AI model pricing
8 stories tagged AI model pricing.
Gemini 4 Argon's Coding Scores Defy a Single Ranking
Gemini 4 Argon leads some coding tests and trails on others. Its evaluation cost and release history show how to judge a model against the work you need done.
Claude Sonnet 5.5's Coding Gains Put Review Costs in Focus
Claude Sonnet 5.5's Coding Gains Put Review Costs in Focus
Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 5.5 improves coding at the same token price. For open-source maintainers, review time, retries and governance shape the real cost.
GPT-6 Sol and Luna Push the AI Race Toward Lower Prices
GPT-6 Sol and Luna Push the AI Race Toward Lower Prices
OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna sharpen the AI price race. See how token rates, workload costs, safety tests and release cadence change buyer math for developers.
Claude Opus 5.5 Turns the AI Model Race Toward Price
Claude Opus 5.5 Turns the AI Model Race Toward Price
Anthropic cut Claude Opus 5.5 prices, but workload cost depends on tokens, cache use and safeguards. What buyers should test before switching.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: Benchmarks Shine, Real Tasks Falter
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: Benchmarks Shine, Real Tasks Falter
DeepSeek's new open-weights model posts frontier-level benchmark scores and rock-bottom prices, but hands-on tests reveal cracks in stateful logic and simulation.
GLM-5.3 Flash: A Cheap Chinese AI Beats Pricier Rivals
GLM-5.3 Flash: A Cheap Chinese AI Beats Pricier Rivals
Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Flash launched anonymously as "Ox Alpha," undercut American AI rivals by up to 90%, and ran on non-Nvidia chips. Here's what that actually means.
GPT 5.6 Sol vs Fable 5: Early Numbers, Real Tradeoffs
GPT 5.6 Sol vs Fable 5: Early Numbers, Real Tradeoffs
GPT 5.6 Sol is half the price of Fable 5 — but is it half as good? Early benchmark comparisons, alignment regressions, and the politics reshaping who gets access.
Claude Sonnet 5 vs Opus 4.8: Benchmarks and Costs
Claude Sonnet 5 vs Opus 4.8: Benchmarks and Costs
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 matches Opus 4.8 on most benchmarks at roughly half the price. Here's what that means for developers and the broader AI ecosystem.