AI Briefing#api-pricing
The latest AI and developer news about #api-pricing, with the original source and a short summary.
The latest AI and developer news about #api-pricing, with the original source and a short summary.
The new API processes text, images, audio, video, and PDFs to return confidence scores for up to 1,000 questions in a single pass at $0.10 per 1M input tokens.
It recorded a 0.07% out-of-scope attack rate while discovering 948 Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
Gemini 4 Carbon takes first place with an AA Index score of 59 and is prioritized for provision to cyber defense organizations.
A single key accesses over 2,000 paid API endpoints from 80 providers, with costs like $0.055 per Ahrefs call compared to $129 monthly subscriptions.
The new model offers 50% lower standard API pricing than GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol, while scoring 15 percentage points higher on the Agents' Last Exam benchmark at one-third the cost.
DeepSeek charges $0.75 per 1,000 requests for its API, while Tencent claims its engine handles hundreds of millions of daily calls across 157 authoritative sources.
Output costs for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 increased from $0.40 to $1.32 per million tokens, part of a broader wave of API price hikes across major labs.
Offered at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, it is specialized for cybersecurity defense.
GPT-6.1 Sol is available via API and ChatGPT Work/Codex, offering cached input pricing at $0.10 per million tokens and matching GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding tasks at significantly lower cost.
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna, inheriting the performance of GPT-6 Astra, while cutting API prices by 50%.
DeepSeek has released V4.1-Flash, which offers superior performance and efficiency compared to V4-Pro, along with reduced API prices.
A 50% discount applies to GPT-5.6 Sol API usage on OpenRouter.
DeepSeek is implementing API price increases of up to 1,100% per model starting this Sunday.
DeepSeek introduces a differential API pricing model based on peak and off-peak hours alongside the launch of V4-Pro.
Google has launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, optimized for coding and agent workflows, offering a 50% API price discount until the end of 2026.
DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-V4-Pro with enhanced agent performance and revamped its API pricing plans.
Starting September 1, 2026, Anthropic will uniformly raise the API pricing for Claude Sonnet 5 by 50%.
The GLM 5.2 model is available at a 35% discount through the Novita route on AI Gateway until July 24.
DeepSeek is introducing a peak-valley pricing system starting mid-July that charges 2x the standard price during certain hours.
AI labs' profitability is higher under the API model than the subscription model, but as costs fall, strategic shifts in the subscription model are expected.
As frontier model costs rise, combining engineers from low-wage countries with local AI is emerging as a more economical alternative.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has permanently cut the API price of its flagship model V4-Pro by 75%.
DeepSeek has confirmed the 75% discounted price for the V4-Pro API as the permanent official price.
DeepSeek has permanently cut DeepSeek-V4-Pro API prices to 1/4 of the previous level and significantly lowered cache hit prices as well.