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What changed in LLM pricing — August 2026

In August 2026, we recorded 106 price changes (72 cuts, 34 increases) and 101 new models across the LLM providers we track. The biggest cut was Qwen3.8 27B cached input, down 88% ($0.080 → $0.010 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.

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Price changes
72
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34
Price increases
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New models

Price cuts in August 2026

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

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 LunaOutput$6.00/1M$1.20/1M-80%9 August 2026OpenAI
GPT-5.6 LunaInput$1.00/1M$0.200/1M-80%9 August 2026OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Luna (Bedrock)Output$6.00/1M$1.32/1M-78%9 August 2026AWS Bedrock
GPT-5.6 Luna (Bedrock)Input$1.00/1M$0.220/1M-78%9 August 2026AWS Bedrock
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B InstructInput$0.201/1M$0.060/1M-70%14 August 2026Alibaba
GLM 5.2 FastCached input$0.363/1M$0.145/1M-60%28 August 2026Z.ai (Zhipu AI)

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)Cached input$0.022/1M$0.100/1M+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)Input$0.220/1M$1.00/1M+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 ProCache write$0.125/1M$0.250/1M+100%29 August 2026OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Luna ProCached input$0.010/1M$0.020/1M+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.