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- Week 40, 2026·Sep 21 – Sep 27·6 leaders · 56 sources
Cheaper flagships, metered everything else: this week in AI pricing
Anthropic cut Opus pricing 20% and moved Opus 5 to legacy, Fireworks and Baseten added GLM 5.3 rows while retiring older models, Fastly put a per-request price on AI routing, and Notion and Aircall reworked how AI work is billed. Our capture logged 107 AI-relevant changes.
AnthropicFireworksBasetenFastlyNotionAircall - Week 36, 2026·Aug 24 – Aug 30·5 leaders · 25 sources
The week AI vendors stopped averaging the heavy user into one price
OpenAI split Business into a $20 seat and a $100 seat; Vercel cut Connect's included quota to 500 requests and raised the unit rate tenfold; Cohere put Parse 5 on $4.00/hr instances. Usage, credits and tokens carry 28% of AI monetization in our index.
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