Monthly recap
What changed in LLM pricing — October 2026
In October 2026, we recorded 4 price changes (3 cuts, 1 increase) and 3 new models across the LLM providers we track. The biggest cut was deepseek-v4-1-flash input, down 89% ($0.140 → $0.016 per 1M tokens).
The median cut this month was 57%. Figures are from our daily re-check of official provider pricing; see the live tracker for the full history.
4
Price changes
3
Price drops
1
Price increases
3
New models
Price cuts in October 2026
Models that got cheaper, biggest cut first. Click a column to sort.
| deepseek-v4-1-flash | Input | $0.140/1M | $0.016/1M | -89% | 1 October 2026 | DeepSeek |
| Qwen3.8 Flash Next | Output | $0.470/1M | $0.200/1M | -57% | 1 October 2026 | Alibaba |
| Qwen3.8 Flash Next | Input | $0.150/1M | $0.100/1M | -33% | 1 October 2026 | Alibaba |
Price increases in October 2026
| deepseek-v4-1-flash | Output | $0.280/1M | $0.396/1M | +41% | 1 October 2026 | DeepSeek |
Models launched in October 2026
- deepseek-v4-1-flash· DeepSeek$0.016/1M · 1 October 2026
- GPT-6.1 Sol (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$2.20/1M · 1 October 2026
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next· Alibaba$0.100/1M · 1 October 2026
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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.