Is Opus 5.5 fast mode worth $40 per million output tokens?
Since 15 October, fast mode on Claude Opus 5.5 needs no waitlist or beta header. We stacked every multiplier on the $8/$40 price and found the catch: fast and standard ...
Tag: LLM pricing
Meta’s API sells Muse Wonder, not the Wonder Full that tops its chart
Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on 12 October. We read the model card and the price page: the API gets the weaker one, and the benchmark footnotes ...
Grok 4.7 keeps $2 and $6, and its gains over 4.6 are xhigh versus high
xAI shipped Grok 4.7 on 21 September at the same $2 and $6 per million as 4.6, same 500K window, same 200K pricing band. Its own table shows gains on ...
Jev 1.13 bills $42 a billion tokens, and it can’t count
On 15 September 2026 TypeSafe AI put Jev 1.13 into early access: a text-in, probability-out model at $42 per billion input tokens with free output, 70 to 500 ms a ...
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash bills audio at $0.15 and ships no weights
On 17 September 2026 the Qwen team put Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash on Model Studio at $0.15 in and $0.47 out for every modality. No weights, text output only, and a harness repo ...
Fugu Max costs $2 and $6 while Fugu Ultra v2 runs without Fable 5
Sakana AI released two orchestrators on 11 September 2026. Fugu Max routes over open and specialist models at $2 and $6 per million tokens. Fugu Ultra v2 keeps the $5 ...