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OpenAI has added GPT Image 2.6 to the API as two models, gpt-image-2.6-flare and gpt-image-2.6-sunburst, at exactly the same per-token rates as GPT Image 2.5 and GPT Image 2. On the pricing page, nothing changed. On the invoice, something did: GPT Image pricing is set per token, and the new models spend a different number…

Google shipped Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash on 5 November 2026 and cut the video output rate from $17.50 to $12.00 per million tokens. On Google’s own arithmetic, that takes 720p video from about $0.10 a second to about $0.07. Gemini Omni pricing is quoted in tokens, though, and Omni also bills for thinking and for…

Moonshot AI opened the weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro on 4 November 2026. A week earlier, when we first tested Kimi K3.1 Pro pricing, Moonshot was the only host on OpenRouter. Today OpenRouter lists 20 endpoints from 15 companies, all serving the same model, with input rates from $0.39 to $4.00 per million tokens. So…

Tencent released the full version of Hy4 on 4 November 2026, and on OpenRouter it lists at $0.417 per million input tokens and $1.25 per million output tokens. That is half of the Hy4 preview’s rate, and it looks like a mid-priced model with a very large context window. For a support chatbot, that rate…

Pareto is the model family sold by Unbiased, and its October release made it a lot cheaper. Pareto 26.10 lists on OpenRouter at $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens. The September release, Pareto 26.9, is still listed at $2.50 and $7.50. Input is 68% cheaper, output 57% cheaper, and the…

Liquid AI’s LFM 2.5 24B has the lowest input price of any model we have put through our chatbot test this autumn: $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, served by Liquid itself. It is a mixture-of-experts reasoning model with 24 billion parameters in total and about 2.45 billion…

Reflection AI’s Beam 1.0 is the first open-weight model from the Nvidia-backed lab, and on OpenRouter it costs $0.25 to $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.00 to $1.20 per million output tokens, depending on which of its five hosts serves the request. Beam is a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 501 billion parameters in total…

StepFun Step 5 pricing on OpenRouter is $1.00 per million input tokens and $2.70 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.10. That rate is the same on all three hosts that serve it: StepFun itself, Featherless and GMICloud. Step 5 Preview is StepFun’s new flagship, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 600 billion parameters…

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super pricing depends on who runs it. NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL on 15 October 2026 as an open-weight model, so it has no single price. On OpenRouter it is sold by eight paid hosts at $0.06 to $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.35 to $0.50 per million output tokens,…

Kimi K3.1 Pro pricing is $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.20. Moonshot AI released the model through its API on 23 October 2026 and says the open weights will follow on 4 November. Those are exactly the list rates of Claude Sonnet 5.5, and a…