Weekly recap
What changed in LLM pricing — Week of 31 August – 6 September 2026
In the week of 31 August – 6 September 2026, we recorded 12 price changes (5 cuts, 7 increases) and 15 new models across the LLM providers we track. The biggest cut was gemma-4-31b-it cached input, down 50% ($0.040 → $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.
12
Price changes
5
Price drops
7
Price increases
15
New models
Price cuts in Week of 31 August – 6 September 2026
Models that got cheaper, biggest cut first. Click a column to sort.
| gemma-4-31b-it | Cached input | $0.040/1M | $0.020/1M | -50% | 31 August 2026 | |
| Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Input | $0.135/1M | $0.100/1M | -26% | 3 September 2026 | Meta |
| Llama 3.1 8b Instruct | Input | $0.025/1M | $0.020/1M | -20% | 5 September 2026 | Meta |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Input | $1.65/1M | $1.50/1M | -9% | 3 September 2026 | Mistral AI |
| gemma-4-31b-it | Output | $0.330/1M | $0.300/1M | -9% | 31 August 2026 |
Price increases in Week of 31 August – 6 September 2026
| Llama 3.1 8b Instruct | Output | $0.025/1M | $0.040/1M | +60% | 5 September 2026 | Meta |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Output | $5.50/1M | $7.50/1M | +36% | 3 September 2026 | Mistral AI |
| gemma-4-31b-it | Input | $0.080/1M | $0.100/1M | +25% | 31 August 2026 | |
| Claude Fable 5.1 (Bedrock) | Input | $10.00/1M | $11.00/1M | +10% | 5 September 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Claude Fable 5.1 (Bedrock) | Output | $50.00/1M | $55.00/1M | +10% | 5 September 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Claude Fable 5.1 (Bedrock) | Cached input | $0.250/1M | $0.275/1M | +10% | 5 September 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Claude Fable 5.1 (Bedrock) | Cache write | $12.50/1M | $13.75/1M | +10% | 5 September 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
Models launched in Week of 31 August – 6 September 2026
- Claude 3.5 Haiku· Anthropic$0.800/1M · 5 September 2026
- Claude Fable 5.1 (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$11.00/1M · 5 September 2026
- Gemma 3 12B IT· Google$0.050/1M · 5 September 2026
- GPT 6 Astra Pro· OpenAI$10.00/1M · 5 September 2026
- GPT-6 Astra· OpenAI$10.00/1M · 5 September 2026
- Llama 3.1 8b Instruct· Meta$0.020/1M · 5 September 2026
- nvidia-nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b· Nvidia$0.050/1M · 5 September 2026
- Muse Spark 1.3· Meta$1.25/1M · 4 September 2026
- Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor· Meta$0.100/1M · 4 September 2026
- Gemini 3.8 Flash· Google$0.750/1M · 3 September 2026
- Mistral Medium 3.5 128B· Mistral AI$1.50/1M · 3 September 2026
- Claude Fable 5.1· Anthropic$10.00/1M · 2 September 2026
- Claude Fable 5.1 (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$10.00/1M · 2 September 2026
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next· Alibaba$0.120/1M · 1 September 2026
- gemma-4-31b-it· Google$0.100/1M · 31 August 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.