Weekly recap
What changed in LLM pricing — Week of 19–25 October 2026
In the week of 19–25 October 2026, we recorded 23 price changes (8 cuts, 15 increases) and 5 new models across the LLM providers we track. The biggest cut was Grok 4.6 (Bedrock) input, down 9% ($2.20 → $2.00 per 1M tokens).
The median cut this week was 9%. Figures are from our daily re-check of official provider pricing; see the live tracker for the full history.
23
Price changes
8
Price drops
15
Price increases
5
New models
Price cuts in Week of 19–25 October 2026
Models that got cheaper, biggest cut first. Click a column to sort.
| Grok 4.6 (Bedrock) | Input | $2.20/1M | $2.00/1M | -9% | 19 October 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Grok 4.6 (Bedrock) | Output | $6.60/1M | $6.00/1M | -9% | 19 October 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Grok 4.6 (Bedrock) | Cached input | $0.550/1M | $0.500/1M | -9% | 19 October 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Kimi K3 (Bedrock) | Input | $3.30/1M | $3.00/1M | -9% | 19 October 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Kimi K3 (Bedrock) | Output | $16.50/1M | $15.00/1M | -9% | 19 October 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Kimi K3 (Bedrock) | Cached input | $0.330/1M | $0.300/1M | -9% | 19 October 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Kimi K3 (Bedrock) | Cache write | $4.13/1M | $3.75/1M | -9% | 19 October 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| qwen-2-5-72b-instruct | Output | $0.408/1M | $0.400/1M | -2% | 19 October 2026 | Alibaba |
Price increases in Week of 19–25 October 2026
| GLM 5.3 Fast | Input | $1.12/1M | $2.10/1M | +88% | 19 October 2026 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) |
| GLM 5.3 Fast | Output | $4.40/1M | $6.60/1M | +50% | 19 October 2026 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) |
| Claude Opus 5.5 (Bedrock) | Input | $4.00/1M | $4.40/1M | +10% | 19 October 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Claude Opus 5.5 (Bedrock) | Output | $20.00/1M | $22.00/1M | +10% | 19 October 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Claude Opus 5.5 (Bedrock) | Cached input | $0.200/1M | $0.220/1M | +10% | 19 October 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Claude Opus 5.5 (Bedrock) | Cache write | $5.00/1M | $5.50/1M | +10% | 19 October 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Bedrock) | Input | $2.00/1M | $2.20/1M | +10% | 19 October 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Bedrock) | Output | $10.00/1M | $11.00/1M | +10% | 19 October 2026 | AWS Bedrock |
Models launched in Week of 19–25 October 2026
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$2.20/1M · 19 October 2026
- GLM 5.3 Fast· Z.ai (Zhipu AI)$2.10/1M · 19 October 2026
- GPT-6 Sol (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$2.20/1M · 19 October 2026
- Grok 4.6 (Bedrock)· AWS Bedrock$2.00/1M · 19 October 2026
- qwen-2-5-72b-instruct· Alibaba$0.360/1M · 19 October 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.