6 verified stories covering API pricing, product updates and industry developments.
OpenAI has made its Ultrafast inference tier generally available for GPT-6.1 Sol in the Responses API, charging six times the standard price for calls that run up to roughly 8x faster in Codex.
Silicon Data's LLM token price index closed below $1 for the first time, down more than half from its summer peak, squeezing frontier labs' margins ahead of IPO season.
OpenAI is cutting GPT-5.6 Sol's API pricing by over 20% for three months, with output tokens down a third while subscription prices stay unchanged.
DeepSeek brings peak-and-off-peak pricing to model APIs
Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, its most affordable AI model to date, priced at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens. The model offers faster generation speeds and a 1M-token context window, targeting high-volume, cost-sensitive applications.
From 2025 to 2026, AI API pricing has seen fierce competition reminiscent of e-commerce price wars, with some providers cutting costs and others implementing hidden price increases.