Weekly recap
What changed in LLM pricing — Week of 17–23 August 2026
In the week of 17–23 August 2026, we recorded 31 price changes (29 cuts, 2 increases) and 15 new models across the LLM providers we track. The biggest cut was Qwen3.8 27B cached input, down 88% ($0.080 → $0.010 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.
31
Price changes
29
Price drops
2
Price increases
15
New models
Price cuts in Week of 17–23 August 2026
Models that got cheaper, biggest cut first. Click a column to sort.
| Qwen3.8 27B | Cached input | $0.080/1M | $0.010/1M | -88% | 17 August 2026 | Alibaba |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | Input | $1.50/1M | $0.750/1M | -50% | 21 August 2026 | |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | Output | $7.50/1M | $3.75/1M | -50% | 21 August 2026 | |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | Cached input | $0.150/1M | $0.075/1M | -50% | 21 August 2026 | |
| GPT 5.6 Sol Pro | Cache write | $6.25/1M | $3.13/1M | -50% | 18 August 2026 | OpenAI |
| GPT 5.6 Sol Pro | Cached input | $0.500/1M | $0.250/1M | -50% | 18 August 2026 | OpenAI |
| GPT 5.6 Sol Pro | Output | $30.00/1M | $15.00/1M | -50% | 18 August 2026 | OpenAI |
| GPT 5.6 Sol Pro | Input | $5.00/1M | $2.50/1M | -50% | 18 August 2026 | OpenAI |
Price increases in Week of 17–23 August 2026
| Nemotron 3 Nano Omni | Cached input | $0.006/1M | $0.054/1M | +800% | 21 August 2026 | Nvidia |
| Gemma 4 31B IT | Cached input | $0.010/1M | $0.040/1M | +300% | 22 August 2026 |
Models launched in Week of 17–23 August 2026
- Gemma 4 26B A4B IT· Google$0.042/1M · 23 August 2026
- GPT 5.6 Sol Pro· OpenAI$2.00/1M · 22 August 2026
- Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct· Mistral AI$0.075/1M · 22 August 2026
- Gemini 3.6 Flash· Google$0.750/1M · 21 August 2026
- Gemma 4 26B A4B IT· Google$0.050/1M · 21 August 2026
- GLM-4.5 AirX· Z.ai (Zhipu AI)$0.572/1M · 21 August 2026
- GLM-4.5 X· Z.ai (Zhipu AI)$1.14/1M · 21 August 2026
- Llama 3 70B Instruct· Meta$0.510/1M · 21 August 2026
- Ministral 8B· Mistral AI$0.100/1M · 21 August 2026
- Nemotron 3 Nano Omni· Nvidia$0.054/1M · 21 August 2026
- Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B· Alibaba$1.80/1M · 21 August 2026
- Grok 4.6 (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$2.20/1M · 20 August 2026
- GPT 5.6 Sol Pro· OpenAI$2.50/1M · 18 August 2026
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking· Alibaba$0.287/1M · 18 August 2026
- Qwen3.8 27B· Alibaba$0.100/1M · 17 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.