MindsDB hikes Blaze rates up to 183% one day after adding it to the rate card
By Rob Litterst, Co-founder, PricingSaaS
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What changed
MindsHub Blaze (Cerebras) rates rose across the board: input from $0.35 to $0.99, output from $0.75 to $1.49, cached from $0.35 to $0.99 per 1M tokens — a jump of up to 183% on the cached rate. Separately, the Air free tier moved from a fixed 5M tokens/month cap to open-ended fair-use limits.
Why it matters
For usage-billed AI infrastructure, a same-week reprice right after a model launch suggests vendors are using intro pricing as a customer-acquisition hook rather than a stable rate — watch whether MindsDB's other recently-added models (GPT-OSS 120B, DeepSeek V4 Flash, GLM 5.3) get the same treatment in the coming weeks.
In context
MindsDB added MindsHub Blaze to its rate card on Sep 14 at $0.35/$0.75/$0.35 per 1M tokens, then repriced it up to $0.99/$1.49/$0.99 the very next day — a same-week launch-then-hike that follows four more models added to the card that same day. It fits a company that has restructured pricing six times and touched usage billing eight times since March, averaging a change every 10 days. Usage-billing moves like this make up 11% of all pricing changes tracked across the index in the past 180 days, well behind only HubSpot (28 mentions) and Datadog (12) in frequency.