Weekly recap
What changed in LLM pricing — Week of 10–16 August 2026
In the week of 10–16 August 2026, we recorded 18 price changes (12 cuts, 6 increases) and 12 new models across the LLM providers we track. The biggest cut was Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct input, down 70% ($0.201 → $0.060 per 1M tokens).
The median cut this week was 12%. Figures are from our daily re-check of official provider pricing; see the live tracker for the full history.
18
Price changes
12
Price drops
6
Price increases
12
New models
Price cuts in Week of 10–16 August 2026
Models that got cheaper, biggest cut first. Click a column to sort.
| Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Input | $0.201/1M | $0.060/1M | -70% | 14 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 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | Output | $1.50/1M | $1.20/1M | -20% | 12 August 2026 | Meta |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | Input | $0.350/1M | $0.300/1M | -14% | 12 August 2026 | Meta |
| Claude Opus 5 (Bedrock) | Cache write | $6.88/1M | $6.25/1M | -9% | 14 August 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Claude Opus 5 (Bedrock) | Cached input | $0.550/1M | $0.500/1M | -9% | 14 August 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
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
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.