Monthly recap
What changed in LLM pricing — September 2026
In September 2026, we recorded 53 price changes (26 cuts, 27 increases) and 34 new models across the LLM providers we track. The biggest cut was Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct input, down 72% ($0.351 → $0.100 per 1M tokens).
The median cut this month was 17%. Figures are from our daily re-check of official provider pricing; see the live tracker for the full history.
53
Price changes
26
Price drops
27
Price increases
34
New models
Price cuts in September 2026
Models that got cheaper, biggest cut first. Click a column to sort.
| Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct | Input | $0.351/1M | $0.100/1M | -72% | 15 September 2026 | Mistral AI |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | Cached input | $0.500/1M | $0.200/1M | -60% | 17 September 2026 | Alibaba |
| gemma-4-31b-it | Cached input | $0.020/1M | $0.010/1M | -50% | 11 September 2026 | |
| Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct | Output | $0.555/1M | $0.300/1M | -46% | 15 September 2026 | Mistral AI |
| deepseek-v4-1-flash | Output | $0.600/1M | $0.400/1M | -33% | 15 September 2026 | DeepSeek |
| deepseek-v4-1-flash | Input | $0.150/1M | $0.100/1M | -33% | 15 September 2026 | DeepSeek |
| Qwen3 Coder Next (Bedrock) | Output | $1.80/1M | $1.20/1M | -33% | 12 September 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Input | $0.135/1M | $0.100/1M | -26% | 3 September 2026 | Meta |
Price increases in September 2026
| mistral-medium-3-5 | Cached input | $0.139/1M | $0.750/1M | +440% | 15 September 2026 | Mistral AI |
| Qwen3.8 27B | Cached input | $0.010/1M | $0.050/1M | +400% | 17 September 2026 | Alibaba |
| 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 |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | Cached input | $0.250/1M | $0.500/1M | +100% | 15 September 2026 | Alibaba |
| Qwen3.7 Flash | Cached input | $0.003/1M | $0.006/1M | +100% | 1 September 2026 | Alibaba |
| Google Gemma 3 27B Instruct (Bedrock) | Input | $0.120/1M | $0.230/1M | +92% | 11 September 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
Models launched in September 2026
- GLM-5.3· Mistral AI$1.40/1M · 18 September 2026
- Qwen3.8 Omni Flash· Alibaba$0.150/1M · 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 Small 3.1 24B Instruct· Mistral AI$0.100/1M · 15 September 2026
- mistral-medium-3-5· Mistral AI$1.50/1M · 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· 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
- GLM-5.1 FP8· Z.ai (Zhipu AI)$0.980/1M · 10 September 2026
- GPT-6 Astra (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$11.00/1M · 9 September 2026
- Claude 3.5 Haiku· Anthropic$0.800/1M · 5 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 Pro· OpenAI$10.00/1M · 5 September 2026
- GPT-6 Astra· 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
- Qwen3.7 Flash· Alibaba$0.028/1M · 1 September 2026
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