Crusoe drops Kimi K2.6 ($0.70/$3.50 per 1M) from Managed Inference lineup
What happened
Between the Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026 captures of Crusoe's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Kimi K2.6 removed from the Managed Inference model price list ($0.70 input / $3.50 output / $0.35 cached per 1M tokens). Pulse files it as a product change (feature removed) with a downward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Nov 2, 2026) lists Managed Inference - DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at $0.01 per 1M cached tokens + $0.20 per 1M output tokens, NVIDIA H200 (141GB) On-Demand at $4.29 per GPU-hr, NVIDIA L40S (48GB) On-Demand at $1.50 per GPU-hr, NVIDIA H100 (80GB) On-Demand at $3.90 per GPU-hr and NVIDIA A100 PCIe (80GB) On-Demand at $2 per GPU-hr.
It lands 7 days after Crusoe's previous change, "Crusoe: GPT-OSS 20B fine-tuning price $0.40->$2.50 + 2 more changes" (Sep 28, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Crusoe adds Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B to Serverless Inference at $1/$3.20 per…" (Jul 27, 2026) and "Crusoe: Launched Serverless Fine-Tuning + Self-Serve Deployments" (Jul 20, 2026). Crusoe has been tracked since 2026-06-18.
In the same window Spacelift, Tray.ai, Salad, Scalr and RunPod also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · FeatureRemovedKimi K2.6No Kimi K2.6
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Feature | Kimi K2.6 | No Kimi K2.6 | Removed |
Values as written on Crusoe's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Crusoe's pricing page (www.crusoe.ai) from Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026; the change is marked in the lower part of the page, where the Kimi K2.6 no longer appears.
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Crusoe, the last 90 days
Full history- Oct 12, 2026packagingCrusoe adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash to Serverless Inference at $0.29/1M input
- Oct 5, 2026packagingCrusoe drops Kimi K2.6 ($0.70/$3.50 per 1M) from Managed Inference lineup · this change
- Sep 28, 2026increaseCrusoe: GPT-OSS 20B fine-tuning price $0.40->$2.50 + 2 more changes
- Jul 27, 2026packagingCrusoe adds Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B to Serverless Inference at $1/$3.20 per…
- Jul 20, 2026improvedCrusoe: Launched Serverless Fine-Tuning + Self-Serve Deployments
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- SpaceliftNov 2Spacelift rebuilds lineup: $399 Starter replaces quote-only, Free gets full card
- Tray.aiNov 2Tray.ai swaps "Talk to sales" for "Sized to your needs" on paid plans
- SaladNov 2Salad hikes RTX 5090 High-priority GPU rate 20% to $0.60/hr; Lowest tier flat
- ScalrNov 2Scalr spells out billable runs: failed runs count, drift detection is free
- RunPodNov 2RunPod raises Serverless GPU prices up to 25%, drops savings claim
Questions about this change
Did Crusoe raise prices in October 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a product change: feature removed.
What changed on Crusoe's pricing page between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026?
Feature: Kimi K2.6 → No Kimi K2.6, removed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Crusoe change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 3 other pricing-page changes for Crusoe in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Crusoe: GPT-OSS 20B fine-tuning price $0.40->$2.50 + 2 more changes" on Sep 28, 2026; Crusoe has been tracked since 2026-06-18.