Weekly recap
What changed in LLM pricing — Week of 24–30 August 2026
In the week of 24–30 August 2026, we recorded 23 price changes (15 cuts, 8 increases) and 6 new models across the LLM providers we track. The biggest cut was GPT OSS 20B input, down 33% ($0.030 → $0.020 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.
23
Price changes
15
Price drops
8
Price increases
6
New models
Price cuts in Week of 24–30 August 2026
Models that got cheaper, biggest cut first. Click a column to sort.
| GPT OSS 20B | Input | $0.030/1M | $0.020/1M | -33% | 26 August 2026 | OpenAI |
| GPT-5.6 | Output | $30.00/1M | $20.00/1M | -33% | 25 August 2026 | OpenAI |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | Output | $30.00/1M | $20.00/1M | -33% | 25 August 2026 | OpenAI |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B | Output | $0.200/1M | $0.150/1M | -25% | 26 August 2026 | Nvidia |
| GPT OSS 20B | Output | $0.130/1M | $0.100/1M | -23% | 26 August 2026 | OpenAI |
| GPT-5.6 | Input | $5.00/1M | $4.00/1M | -20% | 25 August 2026 | OpenAI |
| GPT-5.6 | Cached input | $0.500/1M | $0.400/1M | -20% | 25 August 2026 | OpenAI |
| GPT-5.6 | Cache write | $6.25/1M | $5.00/1M | -20% | 25 August 2026 | OpenAI |
Price increases in Week of 24–30 August 2026
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B | Cached input | $0.010/1M | $0.050/1M | +400% | 26 August 2026 | Nvidia |
| GPT-5.6 Luna (Bedrock) | Input | $0.220/1M | $1.00/1M | +355% | 27 August 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| GPT-5.6 Luna (Bedrock) | Output | $1.32/1M | $6.00/1M | +355% | 27 August 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| GPT-5.6 Luna (Bedrock) | Cached input | $0.022/1M | $0.100/1M | +355% | 27 August 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| mistral-medium-3-5 | Output | $5.57/1M | $7.13/1M | +28% | 27 August 2026 | Mistral AI |
| GPT-5.6 Terra (Bedrock) | Input | $2.20/1M | $2.50/1M | +14% | 27 August 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| GPT-5.6 Terra (Bedrock) | Output | $13.20/1M | $15.00/1M | +14% | 27 August 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| GPT-5.6 Terra (Bedrock) | Cached input | $0.220/1M | $0.250/1M | +14% | 27 August 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
Models launched in Week of 24–30 August 2026
- GLM-5.2· Mistral AI$1.40/1M · 27 August 2026
- GLM-5.3-Flash· Z.ai (Zhipu AI)$0.075/1M · 27 August 2026
- mistral-medium-3-5· Mistral AI$1.39/1M · 27 August 2026
- Qwen3.8 Flash· Alibaba$0.160/1M · 27 August 2026
- GPT OSS 20B· OpenAI$0.020/1M · 26 August 2026
- GLM-5.3· Z.ai (Zhipu AI)$1.40/1M · 25 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.