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Mercury 3 pricing is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.01. That is a 50% launch discount: Inception lists the regular rate as $0.20 / $0.70, and it has not said when the discount ends. Mercury 3 is a diffusion language model. It drafts and refines…

GPT-6.1 Terra pricing is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.05. That is half the input price and 58% less on output than GPT-5.6 Terra, the model it replaces in OpenAI’s middle tier, which still lists at $2 and $12. GPT-6.1 Terra appeared on OpenRouter on…

Meta Muse Spark pricing is $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens for Muse Spark 1.3, the current version on Meta’s API, with cached input at $0.15. Muse Wonder, the frontier model Meta released on 12 October 2026, costs $4 and $20, the same rate card as Claude Opus 5.5. There…

MiniMax M3.1 Flash pricing is $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens on MiniMax’s own API. That is exactly half of what MiniMax charges for M3. MiniMax released M3.1 Flash on 19 October 2026, and six days later OpenRouter listed thirteen hosts serving it, from $0.09 input on the cheapest to…

OpenAI Whisper pricing stops mattering on 26 February 2027. That is the day OpenAI removes whisper-1 from its API, along with the three newer models that replaced it in most apps: gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe and gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize. The /v1/audio/translations endpoint goes the same day. OpenAI names two replacements: gpt-transcribe for recorded audio at $0.0045 a minute, and…

OpenAI TTS pricing changes shape on 6 January 2027. That is the day OpenAI shuts down all three of its text-to-speech models, tts-1, tts-1-hd and gpt-4o-mini-tts, and the model it names as their replacement, gpt-realtime-2.1-mini, does not run on the same API. Its audio is also priced higher per token: $20 per million audio tokens,…

Voyage AI pricing in October 2026 is simple at the top: the current Voyage 4 family costs $0.02 per million tokens for voyage-4-lite, $0.06 for voyage-4 and $0.12 for voyage-4-large, and every account gets 200 million free tokens on each of them. The older models are a different story. voyage-3-large still costs $0.18 per million…

Pinecone pricing in October 2026 has four self-serve tiers: Starter is free, Builder is a flat $20 a month, Standard has a $50 monthly minimum and then bills by usage, and Enterprise has a $500 minimum. On Standard, a million read units cost $16 to $18 depending on cloud and region, a million write units…

Claude API pricing is per token, and in October 2026 the current models run from $0.10 to $10 per million input tokens. Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output. Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs $2 and $10, Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4 and $20, and the flagship, Claude Fable…

Together AI pricing for serverless models is per token, and for most popular open-weight models it is exactly the model maker’s own list price. On 19 October 2026 Together charged $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 output for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, $1.40 and $4.40 for GLM-5.3, $0.15 and $0.50 for GLM-5.3 Flash, $0.30 and…