AI Briefing#token-pricing
The latest AI and developer news about #token-pricing, with the original source and a short summary.
The latest AI and developer news about #token-pricing, with the original source and a short summary.
Open-weight model spend share more than quadrupled since June, while overall gateway spend grew 13x and average token prices fell 47%.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash now accounts for 22.6% of all tokens routed through OpenRouter at $1.20 per million output tokens.
The average price per token on AI Gateway fell by 13.6% in July, and DeepSeek rose to second place in usage.
Anthropic's Claude Code prompt cache TTL change and large-context costs have fueled complaints about faster quota depletion.