Weekly recap
What changed in LLM pricing — Week of 10–16 August 2026
In the week of 10–16 August 2026, we recorded 21 price changes (15 cuts, 6 increases) and 13 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 week was 20%. Figures are from our daily re-check of official provider pricing; see the live tracker for the full history.
21
Price changes
15
Price drops
6
Price increases
13
New models
Price cuts in Week of 10–16 August 2026
Models that got cheaper, biggest cut first. Click a column to sort.
| Qwen3.5 Flash | Cached input | $0.090/1M | $0.006/1M | -93% | 10 August 2026 | Alibaba |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Input | $0.201/1M | $0.060/1M | -70% | 14 August 2026 | Alibaba |
| Qwen3.5 Flash | Input | $0.090/1M | $0.029/1M | -68% | 10 August 2026 | Alibaba |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | Output | $1.20/1M | $0.800/1M | -33% | 16 August 2026 | Meta |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | Input | $0.300/1M | $0.200/1M | -33% | 16 August 2026 | Meta |
| GPT OSS 120B | Output | $0.140/1M | $0.100/1M | -29% | 15 August 2026 | OpenAI |
| Qwen3.5 Flash | Output | $0.368/1M | $0.287/1M | -22% | 10 August 2026 | Alibaba |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | Output | $1.50/1M | $1.20/1M | -20% | 12 August 2026 | Meta |
Price increases in Week of 10–16 August 2026
| Muse Glimmer 30B | Cached input | $0.040/1M | $0.050/1M | +25% | 16 August 2026 | Meta |
| GPT OSS 120B | Input | $0.032/1M | $0.039/1M | +22% | 15 August 2026 | OpenAI |
| Claude Opus 5 (Bedrock) | Input | $5.00/1M | $5.50/1M | +10% | 13 August 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Claude Opus 5 (Bedrock) | Output | $25.00/1M | $27.50/1M | +10% | 13 August 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Claude Opus 5 (Bedrock) | Cached input | $0.500/1M | $0.550/1M | +10% | 13 August 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Claude Opus 5 (Bedrock) | Cache write | $6.25/1M | $6.88/1M | +10% | 13 August 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
Models launched in Week of 10–16 August 2026
- Muse Glimmer 30B· Meta$0.200/1M · 16 August 2026
- Qwen3.8 27B· Alibaba$0.170/1M · 16 August 2026
- GPT OSS 120B· OpenAI$0.039/1M · 15 August 2026
- MiniMax-M2.1 Lightning· MiniMax$0.120/1M · 15 August 2026
- Gemini 3.7 Flash· Google$0.750/1M · 14 August 2026
- Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct· Alibaba$0.060/1M · 14 August 2026
- Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B· Alibaba$2.00/1M · 14 August 2026
- Claude Opus 5 (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$5.50/1M · 13 August 2026
- Grok 4.6· xAI$2.00/1M · 13 August 2026
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B· Nvidia$0.050/1M · 13 August 2026
- Muse Glimmer 30B· Meta$0.300/1M · 12 August 2026
- Muse Glimmer 30B· Meta$0.350/1M · 11 August 2026
- Qwen3.5 Flash· Alibaba$0.029/1M · 10 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.