Monthly recap
What changed in LLM pricing — September 2026
In September 2026, we recorded 96 price changes (51 cuts, 45 increases) and 66 new models across the LLM providers we track. The biggest cut was gemma-4-31b-it cached input, down 80% ($0.050 → $0.010 per 1M tokens).
The median cut this month was 18%. Figures are from our daily re-check of official provider pricing; see the live tracker for the full history.
96
Price changes
51
Price drops
45
Price increases
66
New models
Price cuts in September 2026
Models that got cheaper, biggest cut first. Click a column to sort.
| gemma-4-31b-it | Cached input | $0.050/1M | $0.010/1M | -80% | 30 September 2026 | |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Input | $0.140/1M | $0.035/1M | -75% | 27 September 2026 | DeepSeek |
| Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct | Input | $0.351/1M | $0.100/1M | -72% | 15 September 2026 | Mistral AI |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Cached input | $0.003/1M | $0.001/1M | -67% | 27 September 2026 | DeepSeek |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | Cached input | $0.500/1M | $0.200/1M | -60% | 17 September 2026 | Alibaba |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Output | $0.600/1M | $0.280/1M | -53% | 29 September 2026 | DeepSeek |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Cached input | $0.006/1M | $0.003/1M | -50% | 29 September 2026 | DeepSeek |
| gemma-4-31b-it | Cached input | $0.020/1M | $0.010/1M | -50% | 11 September 2026 |
Price increases in September 2026
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Cached input | $0.001/1M | $0.006/1M | +500% | 28 September 2026 | DeepSeek |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | Cached input | $0.139/1M | $0.750/1M | +440% | 15 September 2026 | Mistral AI |
| gemma-4-31b-it | Cached input | $0.010/1M | $0.050/1M | +400% | 27 September 2026 | |
| Qwen3.8 27B | Cached input | $0.010/1M | $0.050/1M | +400% | 17 September 2026 | Alibaba |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Input | $0.030/1M | $0.140/1M | +367% | 29 September 2026 | DeepSeek |
| Google Gemma 3 12B (Bedrock) | Output | $0.100/1M | $0.290/1M | +190% | 11 September 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Qwen3 Coder Next (Bedrock) | Input | $0.220/1M | $0.500/1M | +127% | 12 September 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | Output | $0.280/1M | $0.600/1M | +114% | 11 September 2026 | DeepSeek |
Models launched in September 2026
- GPT-6.1 Sol· OpenAI$2.00/1M · 30 September 2026
- GPT-6.1 Sol Pro· OpenAI$2.00/1M · 30 September 2026
- Grok 4.7 (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$2.00/1M · 30 September 2026
- Claude Sonnet 5.5· Anthropic$2.00/1M · 29 September 2026
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$2.00/1M · 29 September 2026
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash· DeepSeek$0.030/1M · 28 September 2026
- Qwen3.5 Flash· Alibaba$0.100/1M · 28 September 2026
- Qwen3.7 Flash· Alibaba$0.030/1M · 28 September 2026
- Qwen3.8 Omni Flash· Alibaba$0.150/1M · 28 September 2026
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash· DeepSeek$0.035/1M · 27 September 2026
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B· Nvidia$0.039/1M · 27 September 2026
- Claude Opus 5.5 (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$4.00/1M · 25 September 2026
- GPT-6 Astra (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$10.00/1M · 25 September 2026
- Kimi K3 (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$3.30/1M · 25 September 2026
- GPT-6 Luna Pro· OpenAI$0.100/1M · 24 September 2026
- Qwen3.8 Max Prime· Alibaba$4.00/1M · 24 September 2026
- Claude Opus 5.5· Anthropic$4.00/1M · 23 September 2026
- Claude Opus 5.5 (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$4.40/1M · 23 September 2026
- GPT-6 Luna· OpenAI$0.100/1M · 23 September 2026
- GPT-6 Luna (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$0.110/1M · 23 September 2026
- GPT-6 Luna Pro· OpenAI$0.050/1M · 23 September 2026
- GPT-6 Sol· OpenAI$2.00/1M · 23 September 2026
- GPT-6 Sol (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$2.00/1M · 23 September 2026
- GPT-6 Sol Pro· OpenAI$2.00/1M · 23 September 2026
- Kimi K3 (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$3.00/1M · 23 September 2026
- Grok 4.7· xAI$2.00/1M · 22 September 2026
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash· Xiaomi$0.140/1M · 22 September 2026
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro· Xiaomi$0.435/1M · 22 September 2026
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed· Xiaomi$4.35/1M · 22 September 2026
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash· DeepSeek$0.140/1M · 21 September 2026
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next· Alibaba$0.150/1M · 20 September 2026
- GLM-5.3-Flash· Z.ai (Zhipu AI)$0.150/1M · 19 September 2026
- GLM-5.3-FlashX· Z.ai (Zhipu AI)$0.370/1M · 19 September 2026
- GPT OSS 20B· OpenAI$0.018/1M · 19 September 2026
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B· Nvidia$0.040/1M · 19 September 2026
- GLM-5.3· Mistral AI$1.40/1M · 18 September 2026
- meta-llama-3-3-70b-instruct· Meta$0.590/1M · 17 September 2026
- Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B· Alibaba$1.95/1M · 17 September 2026
- Qwen3.8 27B· Alibaba$0.080/1M · 17 September 2026
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash· DeepSeek$0.100/1M · 15 September 2026
- Mistral Medium 3.5· Mistral AI$1.50/1M · 15 September 2026
- Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct· Mistral AI$0.100/1M · 15 September 2026
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra· Nvidia$0.500/1M · 15 September 2026
- Hy-MT2 Plus· Tencent$0.074/1M · 13 September 2026
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash· DeepSeek$0.150/1M · 11 September 2026
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017· DeepSeek$0.150/1M · 11 September 2026
- Gemma 4 26B A4B IT (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$0.130/1M · 11 September 2026
- Gemma 4 31B IT (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$0.140/1M · 11 September 2026
- Gemma 4 E2B IT (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$0.040/1M · 11 September 2026
- gemma-3-4b-it· Google$0.040/1M · 11 September 2026
- GPT-5.6 Luna (India) (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$0.220/1M · 11 September 2026
- GPT-5.6 Terra (India) (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$2.20/1M · 11 September 2026
- GPT-6 Astra (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$11.00/1M · 9 September 2026
- Claude Fable 5.1 (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$11.00/1M · 5 September 2026
- Gemma 3 12B IT· Google$0.050/1M · 5 September 2026
- GPT-6 Astra· OpenAI$10.00/1M · 5 September 2026
- GPT-6 Astra Pro· OpenAI$10.00/1M · 5 September 2026
- Llama 3.1 8b Instruct· Meta$0.020/1M · 5 September 2026
- nvidia-nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b· Nvidia$0.050/1M · 5 September 2026
- Muse Spark 1.3· Meta$1.25/1M · 4 September 2026
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor· Meta$0.100/1M · 4 September 2026
- Gemini 3.8 Flash· Google$0.750/1M · 3 September 2026
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B· Mistral AI$1.50/1M · 3 September 2026
- Claude Fable 5.1· Anthropic$10.00/1M · 2 September 2026
- Claude Fable 5.1 (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$10.00/1M · 2 September 2026
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next· Alibaba$0.120/1M · 1 September 2026
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