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.
It has been confirmed that OpenAI requires a minimum annual contract of $50,000 to use the Zero Data Retention (ZDR) feature.
The tokenizer change in Claude Sonnet 5 can increase costs by up to 2x for the same tasks.
Minimax announced that it will raise its API prices by 60–65% starting tomorrow (the 25th).
Contrary to OpenAI Pro's 'unlimited' image generation advertising, actual usage reveals the existence of limits.
NVIDIA is passing on rising memory costs to customers, raising AI server prices by more than 15%.
OpenAI has lowered the price of GPT-5.6 Sol and is offering a 50% discount on Vercel AI Gateway until September 18.
OpenAI announced a price reduction for GPT-5.6 Sol and confirmed that the 50% discount on Vercel AI Gateway will remain in effect.
AI-native companies are redesigning monetization strategies for rapid pricing iteration and agentic customer engagement.
z.ai's GLM-5.3 has launched on the API at the same pricing as before, improving developer accessibility.
The price of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model has been reduced by 50%.
OpenAI is testing a feature that allows users who have reached their usage limits to instantly restore their quota for a fee.
DeepSeek announced plans to significantly raise its API service prices soon.
Claude Sonnet 5 introduces a new tokenizer that generates 1.4x more tokens for the same text, so despite unchanged list prices, actual costs will rise by more than 30% starting in September.
Vercel Sandbox has stopped charging for downloading external data.
A price trend analysis of Claude models based on Anthropic's official data: the top-tier model has remained stable at $11→$10 over two years, Sonnet's price has stayed fixed, and Haiku has seen a 4x price increase.
Vercel Agent has switched from its previous per-request pricing to a token-based pricing model based on task intensity.
Vercel is changing its Function invocations pricing for Pro and Enterprise customers from package-based pricing to per-unit pricing.
DeepSeek announced that it is permanently applying a 75% discount to v4 Pro model pricing.
Rising HBM demand from AI data centers is squeezing consumer memory production, pushing up electronics prices.
DeepSeek is permanently applying a 75% discount to its V4 Pro model.
Cursor unveiled Composer 2.5 and gave all users 10x daily usage.
It's advantageous to keep a Claude cache alive if you plan to write to it again within 62.5 minutes.
Starting June 15, Anthropic separated Agent SDK and `claude -p` usage into a separate credit pool.
GitHub Copilot revamped its individual pricing plans and will allow refunds for the remaining period until May 20.