Monthly recap
What changed in LLM pricing — July 2026
In July 2026, we recorded 1 price change (1 cut, 0 increases) and 4 new models across the LLM providers we track. The biggest cut was Grok 4.5 cached input, down 40% ($0.500 → $0.300 per 1M tokens).
The median cut this month was 40%. Figures are from our daily re-check of official provider pricing; see the live tracker for the full history.
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Price changes
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Price drops
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Price increases
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New models
Price cuts in July 2026
Models that got cheaper, biggest cut first. Click a column to sort.
| Grok 4.5 | Cached input | $0.500/1M | $0.300/1M | -40% | 19 July 2026 | xAI |
Models launched in July 2026
- Claude Opus 5· Anthropic$5.00/1M · 28 July 2026
- Claude Opus 5 (JP)· AWS Bedrock$5.00/1M · 28 July 2026
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite· Google$0.300/1M · 28 July 2026
- Gemini 3.6 Flash· Google$1.50/1M · 28 July 2026
Cite this recap
Monthly recaps are generated from our open price-change dataset (CC BY 4.0). See the recap JSON, the full change dataset, or the RSS feed.