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Inference Pricing
DeepInfra Pricing in 2026: Every Model Priced, Verified
DeepInfra prices 100+ open models per token as of 2026-10-13: DeepSeek V4 Flash $0.06/$0.18 per million, Kimi K3 $2.85/$14.25, Claude and Gemini also listed.
DeAI Daily Brief — 13 October 2026
Today in DeAI: Meta's closed frontier models, Mistral's weights week, Microsoft's agent context-reset trick, UK testing access restored, and a math milestone.
Meta Muse Wonder ships closed-weight, cost near triple per task
Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Oct 12: frontier-class standing, 1M context, no public weights, and per-task cost triple Muse Spark 1.3.
Price Index Delta: DeepSeek V4 Pro Snaps Back, GLM-5.3 Flash Scissors
OpenRouter list-price delta, 2026-10-12: DeepSeek V4 Pro snapped back 358% to $0.9553/$1.9105; GLM-5.3 Flash cut input 85% while output rose 140%.
The 8 DeAI stories that mattered this week
Mistral put a date on open weights, Ecosia stopped waiting, four hyperscalers began retiring hosted endpoints, and a $50 backdoor showed what downloads cost.
SambaNova Cloud in 2026: RDU Inference Priced Across Its Whole Catalog
SambaNova Cloud runs open models on RDU silicon. We priced all 7 models as of 2026-10-06: $0.22/$0.59 on gpt-oss-120b up to $3/$4.50 on DeepSeek V3.1.
The Week Ahead in DeAI: Oct 5–11, 2026
Week of Oct 5–11, 2026: COLM 2026 and SF Tech Week anchor the calendar, OpenRouter's State of Models lands Oct 6, and the open-weight rumor wave stays undated.
Price Index Delta: DeepSeek Doubles, Kimi K3 Splits, gpt-oss Reverts
OpenRouter list-price delta, 2026-10-05: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash doubled to $0.30/$1.20 per million tokens; Kimi K3 split its spread; gpt-oss-120b reverted.
Cerebras vs Groq in 2026: Speed, Price, Models Compared
Cerebras vs Groq in 2026: third-party medians measure Cerebras at ~1,783 tokens/s on gpt-oss-120b vs Groq's ~476, while Groq list prices are roughly half.
How fast is AI inference getting cheaper? The 13x-per-year answer
Fixed-capability AI inference cost falls about 47% per quarter, roughly 13x per year, per Epoch AI. Here is why your per-task bill can still rise anyway.
Price Index Delta: Kimi K3 Cuts 36%, DeepSeek Reverts to Off-Peak
Week-over-week OpenRouter list-price delta, 2026-09-21: Kimi K3 down 36% to $1.70/$8.50 per million tokens; DeepSeek V4.1 Flash halved to $0.15/$0.60 off-peak.
Price Index Delta: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Lands, GLM Flash Doubles
Week-over-week OpenRouter list-price delta, 2026-09-14 vs 2026-09-07: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 fell 57% to $0.06/$0.12 per million tokens; GLM-5.3 Flash doubled.
Open-Model Inference Prices, September 2026
On 2026-09-07 OpenRouter listed gpt-oss-120b at $0.037/$0.17 per million tokens and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 at $0.14/$0.28, matching DeepSeek's official API.
The Cheapest LLM APIs in 2026 — 14 Providers Priced per Million Tokens
The cheapest LLM APIs in 2026 start at $0.14 per million input tokens (DeepSeek V4 Flash, as of 2026-08-20). Compare 14 providers and pricing models.
