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What changed in LLM pricing — August 2026

In August 2026, we recorded 109 price changes (75 cuts, 34 increases) and 122 new models across the LLM providers we track. The biggest cut was Qwen3.5 Flash cached input, down 93% ($0.090 → $0.006 per 1M tokens).

The median cut this month was 20%. Figures are from our daily re-check of official provider pricing; see the live tracker for the full history.

109
Price changes
75
Price drops
34
Price increases
122
New models

Price cuts in August 2026

Models that got cheaper, biggest cut first. Click a column to sort.

Qwen3.5 FlashCached input$0.090/1M$0.006/1M-93%10 August 2026Alibaba
Qwen3.8 27BCached input$0.080/1M$0.010/1M-88%17 August 2026Alibaba
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30BCached input$0.050/1M$0.010/1M-80%29 August 2026Nvidia
GPT-5.6 LunaInput$1.00/1M$0.200/1M-80%9 August 2026OpenAI
GPT-5.6 LunaOutput$6.00/1M$1.20/1M-80%9 August 2026OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Luna (Bedrock)Input$1.00/1M$0.220/1M-78%9 August 2026AWS Bedrock
GPT-5.6 Luna (Bedrock)Output$6.00/1M$1.32/1M-78%9 August 2026AWS Bedrock
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B InstructInput$0.201/1M$0.060/1M-70%14 August 2026Alibaba

Price increases in August 2026

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30BCached input$0.010/1M$0.050/1M+400%26 August 2026Nvidia
GPT-5.6 Luna (Bedrock)Input$0.220/1M$1.00/1M+355%27 August 2026AWS Bedrock
GPT-5.6 Luna (Bedrock)Output$1.32/1M$6.00/1M+355%27 August 2026AWS Bedrock
GPT-5.6 Luna (Bedrock)Cached input$0.022/1M$0.100/1M+355%27 August 2026AWS Bedrock
gemma-4-31b-itCached input$0.010/1M$0.040/1M+300%22 August 2026Google
gemma-4-31b-itCached input$0.040/1M$0.100/1M+150%29 August 2026Google
GPT 5.6 Luna ProInput$0.100/1M$0.200/1M+100%29 August 2026OpenAI
GPT 5.6 Luna ProOutput$0.600/1M$1.20/1M+100%29 August 2026OpenAI

Models launched in August 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.