AI Briefing#pricing
The latest AI and developer news about #pricing, with the original source and a short summary.
The latest AI and developer news about #pricing, with the original source and a short summary.
Max and Team subscribers now receive separate monthly API credits ranging from $20 to $200, while existing subscription limits for Claude Agent SDK and claude -p remain unchanged.
The new model costs around 75% less than Haiku 4.5 and introduces adjustable effort settings for the first time in the Haiku class.
The change applies automatically to every project using microfrontends, joining CDN Requests and Fast Data Transfer which were already free for this traffic.
New unified pricing for logs and traces takes effect December 1, 2026, with Logpush now available on all self-serve plans.
OpenAI has restructured the ChatGPT Pro subscription into three tiers—Pro 100, 200, and 500—including the Ultrafast mode for GPT-6 Astra in the Pro 500 tier.
OpenAI has introduced a new $500/month ChatGPT Pro 500 tier, which is the only Pro plan to include access to the Astra Ultrafast model, while existing Pro 200 subscribers may retain previous usage allowances under specific grandfathering conditions.
GPT-6.1 Sol is available now in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users, with API access via gpt-6.1-sol and cached input priced at $0.10 per million tokens.
The new subscription terms effectively halve the dollar value of API usage compared to the previous plan, though OpenAI claims users will still complete more work due to model efficiency gains.
Existing Claude Pro and Max subscribers can claim a one-time credit of $100 or $250 respectively for Claude Code cloud sessions by October 7.
OpenAI is reportedly preparing a new $500/month ChatGPT Pro Max subscription tier that offers access to 'Fastest' inference speeds for long-running tasks and Codex operations.
Store creation costs $5 per million on the Pro plan, while the existing usage-based billing structure remains in place.
Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI have launched their frontier AI models in separate public and vetted versions, with benchmarked models accessible only to identity-verified organizations.
DeepSeek announced that it will officially launch v4.1 Flash on September 10, stating it outperforms v4 Pro across all metrics.
Vercel now provides deployment protection, previously a paid add-on, for free on all plans.
Vercel has started offering Password Protection for Pro teams at $20 per project per month.
Vercel has officially launched a fixed monthly subscription-based Flat Rate CDN for Pro teams.
Vercel has introduced cost-effective Basic build machines for Pro and Enterprise teams.
Gemini 3.8 Flash has launched on Vercel AI Gateway and is available at a 50% discount until December 31.
Ollama Cloud's September 1 pricing change has increased the effective cost for new subscribers and switching users by up to 6.7 times.
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, which improve coding and knowledge work performance, with price reductions of up to 45%.
Codex Pro 20X offers exactly 20 times the weekly usage compared to Plus, and unlike Claude, it does not apply a 5-hour limit.
Anthropic is offering 10,000 Claude Team seats valid for one year to verified academic and non-profit research labs.
Vercel AI Gateway is offering a 50% discount on request costs for MiniMax H3 and H3 Max models until September 13.
Anthropic has restored Fable 5 to its subscription plans but switched Pro to a token-based billing model, with only Max and Team Premium including it by default.