Price drops & deals

Verified price cuts, free tiers, promotional prices, free-model windows and credit offers. Every item links its official source with a verbatim quote and the date we checked it. Start and end dates are shown only when the source states them. Follow by deals RSS.

Price drops (6)

Pricing entries where the new stated dollar price is lower than the old one (found automatically from changelog entries).

• 2026-10-07 · Anthropic (Claude)

  Prompt cache read price on Claude Sonnet 5.5 lowered.

  Old: $0.20 per MTok (0.1x base input) · New: $0.10 per MTok (0.05x base input) · source

• 2026-10-01 · Perplexity

  Decisions API model replaced by pplx-decider-v1.1-27b with lower input price (changelog dated October 2026, day not stated).

  Old: $0.04 per 1M input tokens · New: $0.02 per 1M input tokens · source

• 2026-10-01 · Perplexity

  Agent API low, medium, high and xhigh presets switched to Fast Search; web_search price lowered (changelog dated October 2026, day not stated).

  Old: $2.50 per 1,000 web_search invocations · New: $1.00 per 1,000 invocations · source

• 2026-09-22 · Together AI

  Serverless prices lowered for Qwen3.7-Max and Qwen3.8-Flash.

  Old: Qwen3.7-Max $2.50/$7.50; Qwen3.8-Flash $0.15/$0.47 per 1M (in/out) · New: Qwen3.7-Max $1.50/$4.50; Qwen3.8-Flash $0.09/$0.282 per 1M (in/out) · source

• 2026-09-01 · Perplexity

  Agent API fast preset switched to Fast Search; web_search price per 1,000 invocations lowered (changelog dated September 2026, day not stated).

  Old: $2.50 per 1,000 web_search invocations · New: $1.00 per 1,000 invocations · source

• 2026-06-09 · Together AI

  DeepSeek-V4-Pro serverless price lowered; cached-input pricing added for GLM-5.1 and Qwen3.5-397B-A17B.

  Old: DeepSeek-V4-Pro $2.10 input / $4.40 output per 1M · New: DeepSeek-V4-Pro $1.74 / $3.48; GLM-5.1 cached $0.26; Qwen3.5-397B cached $0.35 per 1M · source

Promotions, free tiers and credits (4)

• credit-offer · Anthropic (Claude) · starts 2026-10-07 · end not stated

  Monthly API credits included with Claude Max and Team plans

  Max and Team plans now include monthly API credits

  Official source, checked 2026-10-22 · our entry (2026-10-07)

• credit-offer · Cursor (Anysphere) · starts 2026-09-23 · end not stated

  Time-limited Rollouts credits for Cursor Teams and Enterprise

  Teams and Enterprise customers receive credits for roughly 50 and 500 changes, respectively.

  Official source, checked 2026-10-22 · our entry (2026-09-23)

• discount · OpenAI (ChatGPT) · starts 2026-08-21 · ends 2026-11-21 (source says 'at least through')

  GPT-5.6 Sol promotional price ($4 / $20 per 1M input/output tokens)

  Sol’s promotional pricing is available at least through November 21, 2026.

  Official source, checked 2026-10-23 · our entry (2026-08-21)

• free-tier · Google (Gemini) · start not stated · end not stated

  Gemini 2.5 Flash free tier in the Gemini API

  Free of charge

  Official source, checked 2026-10-23

Free models on OpenRouter (17)

Models listed at $0 input and $0 output in OpenRouter's official model list (API, fetched 2026-10-23). OpenRouter's model list states an end date for a model only in its expiration_date field; where empty: end not stated.

• recursive/flint-v1.0:free: Recursive: Flint (free) · end not stated
• xingchen-agi/xing4.0-29b-a4b:free: XingChen: Xing4.0 29B A4B (free) · end not stated
• nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl:free: NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) · end not stated
• dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free: Dots Studio: Dots3-Note Preview (free) · ends 2026-12-31
• liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free: LiquidAI: LFM2.5-2.6B (free) · end not stated
• nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free: NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) · end not stated
• thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free: Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) · end not stated
• poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free: Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free) · ends 2026-10-31
• thinkingmachines/inkling:free: Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) · end not stated
• poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free: Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 (free) · ends 2026-10-31
• cohere/north-mini-code:free: Cohere: North Mini Code (free) · end not stated
• nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety:free: NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety (free) · end not stated
• nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free: NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) · end not stated
• nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free: NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) · end not stated
• google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free: Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) · end not stated
• google/gemma-4-31b-it:free: Google: Gemma 4 31B (free) · end not stated
• nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free: NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free) · end not stated

Cheapest verified route per model

• GPT-4o: OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway ($2.50 / $10.00 per 1M)
• Claude Sonnet 5: Direct (Anthropic (Claude)), OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway ($2.00 / $10.00 per 1M)
• Claude Sonnet 5.5: Direct (Anthropic (Claude)), OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway ($2.00 / $10.00 per 1M)
• Llama 3.3 70B Instruct: OpenRouter ($0.10 / $0.32 per 1M)
• Gemini 2.5 Flash: Direct (Google (Gemini)), OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway ($0.30 / $2.50 per 1M)

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