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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%.
Mistral Large 4 preview: 1T-param MoE, open weights due end of October
Mistral AI's Large 4 is in public preview: a 1T-parameter MoE with 49B active scoring 38 on the AA index, open weights promised by end of October.
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.
Run GLM-5.3-Flash Locally with llama.cpp (2026): VRAM, Quants, Setup
Z.ai's 320B GLM-5.3-Flash now runs in llama.cpp as of the Sept 30 merge. GGUF sizes from 92 GB, quant quality data, setup commands, and known limits.
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.
StepFun's Step 5 Preview API ships; open weights promised October 15
StepFun launched Step 5 Preview: a 600B MoE, 27B active, 1M context, at $2.70 per million output tokens. Open weights are promised October 15, no license named.
Vercel gateway data shows open models at a record 78.4% of tokens
X is celebrating Vercel's claim that open-weight models hit 78.4% of AI Gateway token volume, with open-lab spend passing OpenAI. It is one gateway's sample.
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.
How to Run GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.2 via API in 2026 (Hosts Compared)
GLM-5.3 shipped on 2026-08-14 under the MIT license. Learn how to call GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.2 via Z.ai or third-party hosts with a one-line base-URL swap.
