Weekly recap
What changed in LLM pricing — Week of 14–20 September 2026
In the week of 14–20 September 2026, we recorded 26 price changes (16 cuts, 10 increases) and 13 new models across the LLM providers we track. The biggest cut was Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct input, down 72% ($0.351 → $0.100 per 1M tokens).
The median cut this week was 17%. Figures are from our daily re-check of official provider pricing; see the live tracker for the full history.
26
Price changes
16
Price drops
10
Price increases
13
New models
Price cuts in Week of 14–20 September 2026
Models that got cheaper, biggest cut first. Click a column to sort.
| Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct | Input | $0.351/1M | $0.100/1M | -72% | 15 September 2026 | Mistral AI |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | Cached input | $0.500/1M | $0.200/1M | -60% | 17 September 2026 | Alibaba |
| Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct | Output | $0.555/1M | $0.300/1M | -46% | 15 September 2026 | Mistral AI |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Input | $0.150/1M | $0.100/1M | -33% | 15 September 2026 | DeepSeek |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Output | $0.600/1M | $0.400/1M | -33% | 15 September 2026 | DeepSeek |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B | Input | $0.050/1M | $0.040/1M | -20% | 19 September 2026 | Nvidia |
| Qwen3.8 27B | Input | $0.100/1M | $0.080/1M | -20% | 17 September 2026 | Alibaba |
| NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra | Input | $0.600/1M | $0.500/1M | -17% | 15 September 2026 | Nvidia |
Price increases in Week of 14–20 September 2026
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | Cached input | $0.139/1M | $0.750/1M | +440% | 15 September 2026 | Mistral AI |
| Qwen3.8 27B | Cached input | $0.010/1M | $0.050/1M | +400% | 17 September 2026 | Alibaba |
| GLM-5.3-Flash | Input | $0.075/1M | $0.150/1M | +100% | 19 September 2026 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) |
| GLM-5.3-Flash | Output | $0.250/1M | $0.500/1M | +100% | 19 September 2026 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) |
| GLM-5.3-Flash | Cached input | $0.015/1M | $0.030/1M | +100% | 19 September 2026 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | Cached input | $0.250/1M | $0.500/1M | +100% | 15 September 2026 | Alibaba |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct | Input | $0.075/1M | $0.094/1M | +25% | 16 September 2026 | Mistral AI |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct | Output | $0.200/1M | $0.250/1M | +25% | 16 September 2026 | Mistral AI |
Models launched in Week of 14–20 September 2026
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next· Alibaba$0.150/1M · 20 September 2026
- GLM-5.3-Flash· Z.ai (Zhipu AI)$0.150/1M · 19 September 2026
- GLM-5.3-FlashX· Z.ai (Zhipu AI)$0.370/1M · 19 September 2026
- GPT OSS 20B· OpenAI$0.018/1M · 19 September 2026
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B· Nvidia$0.040/1M · 19 September 2026
- GLM-5.3· Mistral AI$1.40/1M · 18 September 2026
- meta-llama-3-3-70b-instruct· Meta$0.590/1M · 17 September 2026
- Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B· Alibaba$1.95/1M · 17 September 2026
- Qwen3.8 27B· Alibaba$0.080/1M · 17 September 2026
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash· DeepSeek$0.100/1M · 15 September 2026
- Mistral Medium 3.5· Mistral AI$1.50/1M · 15 September 2026
- Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct· Mistral AI$0.100/1M · 15 September 2026
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra· Nvidia$0.500/1M · 15 September 2026
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