{
 "license": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "attribution": "Pick Right AI pricing tracker — https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/",
 "generated_by": "Compiled by Pick Right's automated AI editorial desk from vendor pricing pages; not reviewed by a human before publication. See /ai-disclosure/.",
 "units": "USD. monthly = price billed monthly; annual_monthly = per-month price when billed annually; null = not offered or not shown.",
 "checked_at": "2026-10-09",
 "about": "Subscription list prices (USD) verified against each vendor's own pricing page, plus a dated log of AI price and allowance changes. Each event links the Pick Right article that documented it.",
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  {
   "slug": "chatgpt",
   "name": "ChatGPT",
   "vendor": "OpenAI",
   "category": "chatbots",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-08",
   "source": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers",
   "sources": [
    "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6950777-what-is-chatgpt-plus",
    "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers"
   ],
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    {
     "name": "Free",
     "monthly": 0,
     "annual_monthly": null
    },
    {
     "name": "Plus",
     "monthly": 20,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "Monthly billing only."
    },
    {
     "name": "Pro 100",
     "monthly": 100,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "5x the Plus allowance."
    },
    {
     "name": "Pro 200",
     "monthly": 200,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "Included usage falls from 20x to 10x the Plus allowance on 30 October 2026; price unchanged."
    },
    {
     "name": "Pro 500",
     "monthly": 500,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "25x the Plus allowance; the only Pro tier with Ultrafast."
    }
   ],
   "note": "Pro plans are billed monthly only; OpenAI offers no annual Pro billing. OpenAI's help-centre pricing pages block automated fetches (HTTP 403), so these values are re-checked against secondary reporting between vendor-page reads."
  },
  {
   "slug": "claude",
   "name": "Claude",
   "vendor": "Anthropic",
   "category": "chatbots",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-09",
   "source": "https://claude.com/pricing",
   "sources": [
    "https://claude.com/pricing",
    "https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11049741-what-is-the-max-plan"
   ],
   "plans": [
    {
     "name": "Free",
     "monthly": 0,
     "annual_monthly": null
    },
    {
     "name": "Pro",
     "monthly": 20,
     "annual_monthly": 17,
     "note": "$200 a year billed up front."
    },
    {
     "name": "Max 5x",
     "monthly": 100,
     "annual_monthly": null
    },
    {
     "name": "Max 20x",
     "monthly": 200,
     "annual_monthly": null
    },
    {
     "name": "Team Standard",
     "monthly": 25,
     "annual_monthly": 20,
     "per_seat": true
    },
    {
     "name": "Team Premium",
     "monthly": 125,
     "annual_monthly": 100,
     "per_seat": true,
     "note": "5x the usage of a Standard seat."
    },
    {
     "name": "Enterprise",
     "monthly": 20,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "per_seat": true,
     "note": "$20 per seat plus usage billed at API rates; billed annually."
    }
   ],
   "note": "Usage limits reset on a rolling five-hour window, with weekly caps on paid plans."
  },
  {
   "slug": "gemini",
   "name": "Google AI (Gemini)",
   "vendor": "Google",
   "category": "chatbots",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-08",
   "source": "https://gemini.google/us/subscriptions/",
   "sources": [
    "https://gemini.google/us/subscriptions/"
   ],
   "plans": [
    {
     "name": "Free",
     "monthly": 0,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "Flash-Lite only from 9 October 2026."
    },
    {
     "name": "Google AI Plus",
     "monthly": 4.99,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "Loses the Pro model on a date Google emails to each subscriber."
    },
    {
     "name": "Google AI Pro",
     "monthly": 19.99,
     "annual_monthly": null
    },
    {
     "name": "Google AI Ultra (5x)",
     "monthly": 99.99,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "5x the AI Pro usage limits."
    },
    {
     "name": "Google AI Ultra (20x)",
     "monthly": 199.99,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "20x the AI Pro usage limits."
    }
   ],
   "note": "US prices. Ultra was restructured at Google I/O in May 2026. The same page now also lists Gemini Enterprise business seats from $21/seat/month (Business) and $30/seat/month (Standard/Plus); the consumer plans above are unchanged."
  },
  {
   "slug": "perplexity",
   "name": "Perplexity",
   "vendor": "Perplexity",
   "category": "chatbots",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-09",
   "source": "https://www.perplexity.ai/pro",
   "sources": [
    "https://www.perplexity.ai/pro"
   ],
   "plans": [
    {
     "name": "Free",
     "monthly": 0,
     "annual_monthly": null
    },
    {
     "name": "Pro",
     "monthly": null,
     "annual_monthly": 17,
     "note": "Shown as US$17/month billed annually."
    },
    {
     "name": "Max",
     "monthly": null,
     "annual_monthly": 167,
     "note": "Shown as US$167/month billed annually."
    }
   ],
   "note": "Perplexity's plan page shows annual-billing prices only and blocks automated fetches (HTTP 403). The 9 October 2026 re-check confirmed Pro at $20 monthly / ~$17 annual ($200/year) and Max at $200 monthly / ~$167 annual ($2,000/year) against secondary pricing trackers rather than the vendor page."
  },
  {
   "slug": "cursor",
   "name": "Cursor",
   "vendor": "Anysphere",
   "category": "coding",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-08",
   "source": "https://cursor.com/docs/account/pricing",
   "sources": [
    "https://cursor.com/pricing",
    "https://cursor.com/docs/account/pricing"
   ],
   "plans": [
    {
     "name": "Hobby",
     "monthly": 0,
     "annual_monthly": null
    },
    {
     "name": "Pro",
     "monthly": 20,
     "annual_monthly": null
    },
    {
     "name": "Pro+",
     "monthly": 60,
     "annual_monthly": null
    },
    {
     "name": "Ultra",
     "monthly": 200,
     "annual_monthly": null
    },
    {
     "name": "Teams Standard",
     "monthly": 40,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "per_seat": true
    },
    {
     "name": "Teams Premium",
     "monthly": 120,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "per_seat": true,
     "note": "5x the Agent usage of a Teams Standard seat."
    },
    {
     "name": "Enterprise",
     "monthly": null,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "per_seat": true,
     "note": "Custom pricing; pooled usage, SCIM, audit logs."
    }
   ],
   "note": "Cursor's public pricing page lists only Pro at $20 and Teams at $40; Pro+ ($60), Ultra ($200), Teams Premium ($120) and an India-only Start plan (Rs 649) appear in the billing docs. No tier publishes a credit allowance."
  },
  {
   "slug": "github-copilot",
   "name": "GitHub Copilot",
   "vendor": "GitHub",
   "category": "coding",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-07",
   "source": "https://github.com/features/copilot/plans",
   "sources": [
    "https://github.com/features/copilot/plans",
    "https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/billing/individual-plans",
    "https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/billing/organizations-and-enterprises",
    "https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing/models-and-pricing"
   ],
   "plans": [
    {
     "name": "Free",
     "monthly": 0,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "2,000 code completions a month plus limited chat and agent usage."
    },
    {
     "name": "Pro",
     "monthly": 10,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "1,500 AI credits a month (1,000 base + 500 flex)."
    },
    {
     "name": "Pro+",
     "monthly": 39,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "7,000 AI credits a month (3,900 base + 3,100 flex)."
    },
    {
     "name": "Max",
     "monthly": 100,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "20,000 AI credits a month (10,000 base + 10,000 flex) — $2.00 of token spend per dollar of seat, the best rate on the ladder."
    },
    {
     "name": "Business",
     "monthly": 19,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "per_seat": true,
     "note": "1,900 AI credits per seat, pooled at the billing entity — exactly $1.00 of token spend per dollar of seat, against $1.50 on Pro and $2.00 on Max."
    },
    {
     "name": "Enterprise",
     "monthly": 39,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "per_seat": true,
     "note": "3,900 AI credits per seat, pooled at the billing entity — exactly $1.00 of token spend per dollar of seat, against $1.50 on Pro and $2.00 on Max."
    }
   ],
   "note": "Every plan includes a monthly allowance of GitHub AI Credits (1 credit = $0.01); code completions and next edit suggestions do not draw on it and stay unlimited on paid plans. Individual allowances are published as a base plus a flex allotment that GitHub says is designed to adapt as the economics of AI evolve — 33% of Pro, 44% of Pro+ and 50% of Max. Overage is $0.01 per credit."
  },
  {
   "slug": "windsurf",
   "name": "Windsurf",
   "vendor": "Cognition",
   "category": "coding",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-08",
   "source": "https://devin.ai/pricing",
   "sources": [
    "https://devin.ai/pricing"
   ],
   "plans": [
    {
     "name": "Free",
     "monthly": 0,
     "annual_monthly": null
    },
    {
     "name": "Pro",
     "monthly": 20,
     "annual_monthly": null
    },
    {
     "name": "Max",
     "monthly": 200,
     "annual_monthly": null
    },
    {
     "name": "Teams",
     "monthly": 80,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "$80/month for the team plus $40/month per full developer seat."
    }
   ],
   "note": "windsurf.com/pricing now redirects to Cognition's combined Devin and Windsurf pricing page."
  },
  {
   "slug": "midjourney",
   "name": "Midjourney",
   "vendor": "Midjourney",
   "category": "image-generation",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-09",
   "source": "https://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles/27870484040333-Comparing-Midjourney-Plans",
   "sources": [
    "https://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles/27870484040333-Comparing-Midjourney-Plans"
   ],
   "plans": [
    {
     "name": "Basic",
     "monthly": 10,
     "annual_monthly": 8
    },
    {
     "name": "Standard",
     "monthly": 30,
     "annual_monthly": 24
    },
    {
     "name": "Pro",
     "monthly": 60,
     "annual_monthly": 48
    },
    {
     "name": "Mega",
     "monthly": 120,
     "annual_monthly": 96
    }
   ],
   "note": "Companies with more than $1M in annual gross revenue must use Pro or Mega. Midjourney's plan-comparison page blocks automated fetches (HTTP 403); the 9 October 2026 re-check confirmed $10/$30/$60/$120 monthly and $8/$24/$48/$96 annual against secondary pricing trackers rather than the vendor page."
  },
  {
   "slug": "11-labs",
   "name": "ElevenLabs",
   "vendor": "ElevenLabs",
   "category": "audio",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-09",
   "source": "https://elevenlabs.io/pricing",
   "sources": [
    "https://elevenlabs.io/pricing"
   ],
   "plans": [
    {
     "name": "Free",
     "monthly": 0,
     "annual_monthly": null
    },
    {
     "name": "Starter",
     "monthly": 6,
     "annual_monthly": 5
    },
    {
     "name": "Creator",
     "monthly": 22,
     "annual_monthly": 18.33,
     "note": "First month 50% off."
    },
    {
     "name": "Pro",
     "monthly": 99,
     "annual_monthly": 82.5
    },
    {
     "name": "Scale",
     "monthly": 299,
     "annual_monthly": 249.17
    },
    {
     "name": "Business",
     "monthly": 990,
     "annual_monthly": 825
    }
   ],
   "note": "Annual billing bills 10 months for 12. Credits shown on the pricing page: 10k Free, 30k Starter, 121k Creator, 600k Pro, 1.8M Scale, 6M Business."
  },
  {
   "slug": "runway",
   "name": "Runway",
   "vendor": "Runway",
   "category": "video",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-08",
   "source": "https://runwayml.com/pricing",
   "sources": [
    "https://runwayml.com/pricing"
   ],
   "plans": [
    {
     "name": "Free",
     "monthly": 0,
     "annual_monthly": null
    },
    {
     "name": "Standard",
     "monthly": 15,
     "annual_monthly": 12
    },
    {
     "name": "Pro",
     "monthly": 35,
     "annual_monthly": 28
    },
    {
     "name": "Max",
     "monthly": 95,
     "annual_monthly": 76
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "suno",
   "name": "Suno",
   "vendor": "Suno",
   "category": "audio",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-07",
   "source": "https://suno.com/pricing",
   "sources": [
    "https://suno.com/pricing"
   ],
   "plans": [
    {
     "name": "Free",
     "monthly": 0,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "50 credits/day; no song downloads."
    },
    {
     "name": "Pro",
     "monthly": 8,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "2,500 credits and 20 downloads/month."
    },
    {
     "name": "Premier",
     "monthly": 24,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "10,000 credits and 60 downloads/month."
    }
   ],
   "note": "Annual billing is offered at a discount; Suno's published yearly figures do not reconcile with its own stated savings percentage, so only monthly rates are tracked here."
  },
  {
   "slug": "descript",
   "name": "Descript",
   "vendor": "Descript",
   "category": "audio",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-07",
   "source": "https://www.descript.com/pricing",
   "sources": [
    "https://www.descript.com/pricing"
   ],
   "plans": [
    {
     "name": "Free",
     "monthly": 0,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "1 media hour/month."
    },
    {
     "name": "Hobbyist",
     "monthly": 24,
     "annual_monthly": 16,
     "note": "10 media hours, 400 AI credits."
    },
    {
     "name": "Creator",
     "monthly": 35,
     "annual_monthly": 24,
     "note": "30 media hours, 800 AI credits."
    },
    {
     "name": "Business",
     "monthly": 65,
     "annual_monthly": 50,
     "note": "40 media hours, 1,500 AI credits."
    }
   ],
   "note": "US list prices. The annual commitment saves up to 35%, the widest monthly/annual gap among the audio tools tracked here."
  },
  {
   "slug": "otter-ai",
   "name": "Otter.ai",
   "vendor": "Otter.ai",
   "category": "audio",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-07",
   "source": "https://otter.ai/pricing",
   "sources": [
    "https://otter.ai/pricing"
   ],
   "plans": [
    {
     "name": "Basic",
     "monthly": 0,
     "annual_monthly": null,
     "note": "300 transcription minutes/month."
    },
    {
     "name": "Pro",
     "monthly": 16.99,
     "annual_monthly": 8.33,
     "per_seat": true,
     "note": "1,200 in-app recording minutes/month."
    },
    {
     "name": "Business",
     "monthly": 30,
     "annual_monthly": 19.99,
     "per_seat": true,
     "note": "Unlimited meetings and in-app recordings."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "krisp",
   "name": "Krisp",
   "vendor": "Krisp",
   "category": "audio",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-07",
   "source": "https://krisp.ai/pricing",
   "sources": [
    "https://krisp.ai/pricing"
   ],
   "plans": [
    {
     "name": "Core",
     "monthly": 16,
     "annual_monthly": 8,
     "per_seat": true,
     "note": "1 hour/day accent conversion."
    },
    {
     "name": "Advanced",
     "monthly": 30,
     "annual_monthly": 15,
     "per_seat": true,
     "note": "4 hours/day accent conversion, speaker side."
    }
   ],
   "note": "Entry is a 7-day trial of the full feature set rather than a perpetual free tier. Renamed from Pro/Business; the annual discount is 50%, the steepest tracked here."
  }
 ],
 "events": [
  {
   "date": "2027-01-01",
   "kind": "scheduled",
   "vendor": "Google",
   "product": "Gemini 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 Flash",
   "models": [
    "gemini-3.8-flash"
   ],
   "title": "Every Gemini Flash rate doubles",
   "before": "$0.75 in / $3.75 out",
   "after": "$1.50 in / $7.50 out",
   "detail": "The introductory price on all three current Flash models ends on 31 December 2026, on the same day, so upgrading to the newest Flash buys no extra time at the lower rate. Flash TTS voices double the same day.",
   "article": "gemini-3-8-flash-fourth-flash-shared-january-price-cliff-2026-09-03",
   "source": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-11-21",
   "kind": "scheduled",
   "vendor": "OpenAI",
   "product": "GPT-5.6 Sol",
   "models": [
    "gpt-5.6-sol"
   ],
   "title": "GPT-5.6 Sol promotional rate guaranteed only to here",
   "before": "$4 in / $20 out",
   "after": "List price was $5 in / $30 out",
   "detail": "OpenAI says the promotional rate runs \"at least through\" 21 November 2026. GPT-6 Sol is already cheaper at $2/$10, so the practical move is to migrate rather than wait.",
   "article": "openai-sol-price-cut-promotional-clock-expiry-2026-08-22",
   "source": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.6-sol"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-30",
   "kind": "scheduled",
   "vendor": "OpenAI",
   "product": "ChatGPT Pro 200",
   "tool": "chatgpt",
   "title": "ChatGPT Pro 200's included usage halves",
   "before": "20x Plus usage for $200",
   "after": "10x Plus usage for $200",
   "detail": "Grandfathered Pro 200 subscribers keep the old allowance through 29 October. After that every rung of the ladder costs the same $20 per 1x of Plus usage.",
   "article": "openai-chatgpt-pro-500-deleted-the-volume-discount-2026-10-01",
   "source": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-22",
   "kind": "scheduled",
   "vendor": "Google",
   "product": "Veo 3.1 on the Gemini API",
   "models": [
    "veo-3.1-generate-preview",
    "veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview",
    "veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview"
   ],
   "title": "Every Veo endpoint leaves the Gemini API",
   "before": "$0.40 / $0.10 / $0.05 per sec (720p)",
   "after": "gemini-omni-1.1-flash at $0.1014 per sec",
   "detail": "All three Veo 3.1 variants shut down on the same day with no GA Veo to fall back to, so the move is forced: a 75% cut for standard Veo 3.1 users, roughly flat for Fast, and a 103% increase for Lite. Google publishes no token rate above 720p for the replacement.",
   "article": "google-io-2026-recap-2026-05-19",
   "source": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-09",
   "kind": "scheduled",
   "vendor": "Google",
   "product": "Gemini app (Free and Google AI Plus)",
   "tool": "gemini",
   "title": "Free Gemini drops to Flash-Lite; AI Plus loses the Pro model",
   "before": "Free and Plus include Gemini 3.1 Pro access",
   "after": "Free: Flash-Lite only. Plus: no Pro model",
   "detail": "The free-tier change takes effect on 9 October 2026. Google AI Plus subscribers lose the Pro model on a date Google is emailing individually rather than publishing. Prices are unchanged.",
   "article": "gemini-app-free-tier-flash-lite-ai-plus-pro-removed-unpublished-date-2026-10-04",
   "source": null
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-08",
   "kind": "launch",
   "vendor": "OpenAI",
   "product": "GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast",
   "models": [
    "gpt-6.1-sol"
   ],
   "title": "Ultrafast gets a price on the mid-tier, and EU data residency with it",
   "before": "No published Ultrafast rate for Sol; Astra Ultrafast only, at $60 in / $300 out",
   "after": "$12 in / $60 out (6x standard), US and EU data residency",
   "detail": "OpenAI turned Ultrafast on for GPT-6.1 Sol across the API, Codex and ChatGPT Work at a flat 6x multiplier, and it is the first OpenAI speed tier purchasable under EU data residency — GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast remains global-and-US-only, so a European buyer can buy latency on the mid-tier model and not on the flagship. Standard Sol rates are unchanged at $2/$10.",
   "article": "openai-sol-ultrafast-priced-eu-residency-astra-still-cannot-buy-speed-2026-10-09",
   "source": "https://community.openai.com/t/ultrafast-is-rolling-out-today-for-gpt-6-1-sol-in-the-api-codex-and-chatgpt-work/1404475"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-07",
   "kind": "launch",
   "vendor": "Anthropic",
   "product": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "models": [
    "claude-haiku-5-5"
   ],
   "title": "Claude Haiku 5.5 launches with Anthropic's first prompt-length price tier",
   "before": "Haiku 4.5 at $1 in / $5 out, flat",
   "after": "$0.10 in / $0.50 out below 100K-token prompts; $0.50 in / $2.50 out above",
   "detail": "Every rate multiplies by five across a 100,000-token prompt threshold — the steepest long-prompt surcharge any major vendor charges, at the lowest threshold. No other Claude model has a length tier. Because the threshold is counted in Anthropic's newer tokenizer, it arrives at roughly 77,000 older-tokenizer tokens.",
   "article": "anthropic-haiku-5-5-hundred-thousand-token-cliff-sonnet-cache-cut-2026-10-08",
   "source": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/overview"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-07",
   "kind": "cut",
   "vendor": "Anthropic",
   "product": "Claude Sonnet 5.5",
   "models": [
    "claude-sonnet-5-5"
   ],
   "title": "Sonnet 5.5's cache read halves",
   "before": "$0.20 cached input per million tokens",
   "after": "$0.10 cached input per million tokens",
   "detail": "Lowered from $0.20 to $0.10 per million tokens on 7 October 2026; cache writes and all other rates unchanged. Sonnet 5.5's launch claim of complete rate-card parity with Sonnet 5 has lapsed in the buyer's favour, and it now matches GPT-6.1 Sol's cached-input rate.",
   "article": "anthropic-haiku-5-5-hundred-thousand-token-cliff-sonnet-cache-cut-2026-10-08",
   "source": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/overview"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-06",
   "kind": "launch",
   "vendor": "Mistral",
   "product": "Mistral Large 4",
   "models": [
    "mistral-large-4"
   ],
   "title": "Mistral Large 4 launches priced below Mistral's own mid-tier",
   "before": "Mistral Medium 3.5 at $1.50 in / $7.50 out, 256K context",
   "after": "$1.36 in / $0.14 cached / $4.18 out list, 1M context",
   "detail": "The new flagship is 9% cheaper than Medium 3.5 on input and 44% cheaper on output with four times the context, which leaves the mid-tier with no price argument. A launch sale is charging exactly half ($0.68 / $0.07 / $2.09) with no end date published by Mistral; budget at the list price.",
   "article": "mistral-large-4-flagship-undercuts-its-own-mid-tier-sale-with-no-end-date-2026-10-06",
   "source": "https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-large-4"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-29",
   "kind": "launch",
   "vendor": "OpenAI",
   "product": "ChatGPT Pro 500",
   "tool": "chatgpt",
   "title": "ChatGPT Pro 500 launches at $500 a month",
   "before": null,
   "after": "$500/month, 25x Plus usage, Ultrafast",
   "detail": "Launched at DevDay alongside a reopened Pro 200. Per unit of Plus allowance it costs exactly what Plus does.",
   "article": "openai-chatgpt-pro-500-deleted-the-volume-discount-2026-10-01",
   "source": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-29",
   "kind": "launch",
   "vendor": "OpenAI",
   "product": "GPT-6.1 Sol",
   "models": [
    "gpt-6.1-sol"
   ],
   "title": "GPT-6.1 Sol halves cached input",
   "before": "GPT-6 Sol: $0.20 cached input",
   "after": "$2 in / $10 out, $0.10 cached input",
   "detail": "Same list price as GPT-6 Sol and as Claude Sonnet 5.5, with half the cache-read rate. Prompts over 272K tokens bill at 2x input and 1.5x output.",
   "article": "openai-gpt-6-1-sol-two-dollar-collision-list-price-least-informative-number-2026-09-30",
   "source": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-28",
   "kind": "launch",
   "vendor": "Anthropic",
   "product": "Claude Sonnet 5.5",
   "models": [
    "claude-sonnet-5-5"
   ],
   "title": "Claude Sonnet 5.5 holds Sonnet 5's price",
   "before": "Sonnet 5: $2 in / $10 out",
   "after": "$2 in / $10 out",
   "detail": "Identical rate card, five documented breaking changes. Against Sonnet 4.5, which retires on 30 November, the newer tokenizer turns a 33% list cut into roughly 13% for the same text.",
   "article": "anthropic-claude-sonnet-5-5-same-price-five-breaking-changes-2026-09-30",
   "source": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-24",
   "kind": "billing",
   "vendor": "Anthropic",
   "product": "Claude API refusals",
   "title": "Anthropic starts billing some refusals",
   "before": "Refusals free",
   "after": "Input tokens billed for bio, frontier_llm and reasoning_extraction refusals",
   "detail": "Refusals in three of five categories now bill input tokens at the full model rate even when nothing is returned. Subscriptions are unaffected.",
   "article": "anthropic-billed-refusals-bio-frontier-llm-reasoning-extraction-2026-09-27",
   "source": null
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-22",
   "kind": "cut",
   "vendor": "OpenAI",
   "product": "GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna",
   "models": [
    "gpt-6-sol",
    "gpt-6-luna"
   ],
   "title": "GPT-6 Sol and Luna launch at half the GPT-5.6 price",
   "before": "GPT-5.6 Sol $4/$20",
   "after": "Sol $2/$10, Luna $0.10/$0.50",
   "detail": "A flat 50% below the GPT-5.6 tier, stated as permanent. GPT-6 Astra stayed at $10/$50, so it now costs 5x Sol instead of 2.5x.",
   "article": "openai-gpt-6-sol-luna-half-price-astra-premium-doubled-2026-09-23",
   "source": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-22",
   "kind": "cut",
   "vendor": "Anthropic",
   "product": "Claude Opus 5.5",
   "models": [
    "claude-opus-5-5"
   ],
   "title": "Claude Opus 5.5 lands 20% below Opus 5",
   "before": "Opus 5: $5 in / $25 out, $0.50 cache reads",
   "after": "$4 in / $20 out, $0.20 cache reads",
   "detail": "Anthropic's \"40% cheaper to run\" is half rate card and half a default effort level that dropped from high to medium.",
   "article": "anthropic-opus-5-5-forty-percent-is-a-default-not-a-discount-2026-09-22",
   "source": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-21",
   "kind": "launch",
   "vendor": "xAI",
   "product": "Grok 4.7",
   "models": [
    "grok-4.7"
   ],
   "title": "Grok 4.7 keeps the $2/$6 rate card",
   "before": "Grok 4.6: $2 in / $6 out",
   "after": "$2 in / $6 out",
   "detail": "Unchanged price on a larger base model trained to work longer, so cost per task can rise on a flat rate card. No batch discount.",
   "article": "spacexai-grok-4-7-same-rate-card-bigger-base-model-effort-column-2026-09-21",
   "source": "https://docs.x.ai/developers/pricing"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-14",
   "kind": "allowance",
   "vendor": "Anthropic",
   "product": "Claude Code (Pro, Max, Team)",
   "tool": "claude",
   "title": "Claude Code weekly limits shrink about 17%",
   "before": "Temporary +50% boost",
   "after": "Permanent +25% over the pre-May base",
   "detail": "Seat prices unchanged. Anthropic has never published the absolute weekly figure the percentages refer to.",
   "article": "claude-code-weekly-limits-17-percent-cut-undisclosed-base-2026-09-13",
   "source": null
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "kind": "launch",
   "vendor": "DeepSeek",
   "product": "DeepSeek V4.1 Flash",
   "models": [
    "deepseek-flash"
   ],
   "title": "DeepSeek V4.1 Flash launches up to 86% below V4 Pro",
   "before": null,
   "after": "$0.15 in / $0.60 out off-peak",
   "detail": "Peak hours on weekdays cost double. A planned forced migration from V4 Pro was reversed on 14 September.",
   "article": "deepseek-v4-1-flash-pro-routing-capability-downgrade-peak-hours-2026-09-10",
   "source": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-03",
   "kind": "launch",
   "vendor": "OpenAI",
   "product": "GPT-6 Astra",
   "models": [
    "gpt-6-astra"
   ],
   "title": "GPT-6 Astra launches at 2.5x GPT-5.6 Sol",
   "before": null,
   "after": "$10 in / $50 out",
   "detail": "OpenAI argued price per task, not per token. Prompts over 272K tokens bill at 2x input and 1.5x output for the whole request.",
   "article": "gpt-6-astra-launch-price-per-task-arithmetic-272k-cliff-2026-09-04",
   "source": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-02",
   "kind": "launch",
   "vendor": "Google",
   "product": "Gemini 3.8 Flash",
   "models": [
    "gemini-3.8-flash"
   ],
   "title": "Gemini 3.8 Flash launches on the same introductory price",
   "before": null,
   "after": "$0.75 in / $3.75 out until 31 Dec",
   "detail": "Same price and same expiry as 3.7 Flash three weeks earlier.",
   "article": "gemini-3-8-flash-fourth-flash-shared-january-price-cliff-2026-09-03",
   "source": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-01",
   "kind": "increase",
   "vendor": "Microsoft",
   "product": "Foundry EU Data Zone deployments",
   "models": [
    "gpt-6-astra",
    "gpt-6.1-sol",
    "gpt-6-luna"
   ],
   "title": "Keeping Foundry inference in the EU got more expensive than keeping it in the US",
   "before": "EU Data Zone at 10% over Global",
   "after": "EU Data Zone at 20% over Global; US Data Zone unchanged at 10%",
   "detail": "Microsoft's Foundry model deployment pricing update took effect on this date, raising EU Data Zone and non-US Regional prices and launching an APAC Data Zone. Microsoft's own GPT-6 Foundry announcement now prices Data Zone deployments at 10% over Global for the US and 20% for the EU, so residency inside Europe costs double what residency inside the US costs. Azure's public pricing page still renders the GPT-6 rows as '$-' and refers readers to the blog, so the premium is not currently readable from the price list.",
   "article": "gpt-6-astra-eu-data-residency-no-fast-tier-capability-gap-2026-09-06",
   "source": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/gpt-6-astra-sol-and-luna-for-production-agents-in-microsoft-foundry/"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-01",
   "kind": "cut",
   "vendor": "Anthropic",
   "product": "Claude Fable 5.1",
   "models": [
    "claude-fable-5-1"
   ],
   "title": "Fable 5.1 cuts only the cache-read rate",
   "before": "$1.00 cache reads",
   "after": "$0.25 cache reads ($10/$50 base unchanged)",
   "detail": "Worth close to 50% on cache-heavy coding agents and under 5% on conversational traffic.",
   "article": "anthropic-fable-5-1-cache-read-price-cut-workload-shape-2026-09-01",
   "source": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-01",
   "kind": "allowance",
   "vendor": "GitHub",
   "product": "Copilot Business and Enterprise",
   "tool": "github-copilot",
   "title": "Copilot's promotional credits end",
   "before": "Business 3,000 / Enterprise 7,000 credits per user",
   "after": "Business 1,900 / Enterprise 3,900",
   "detail": "Seat prices unchanged; the included budget fell by up to 44%.",
   "article": "github-copilot-promotional-credits-expire-included-usage-drop-2026-09-01",
   "source": null
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-21",
   "kind": "cut",
   "vendor": "OpenAI",
   "product": "GPT-5.6 Sol",
   "models": [
    "gpt-5.6-sol"
   ],
   "title": "GPT-5.6 Sol cut to $4/$20 as a promotion",
   "before": "$5 in / $30 out",
   "after": "$4 in / $20 out",
   "detail": "The first time an OpenAI frontier tier undercut Claude Opus on both input and output.",
   "article": "openai-sol-price-cut-promotional-clock-expiry-2026-08-22",
   "source": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.6-sol"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "kind": "increase",
   "vendor": "DeepSeek",
   "product": "DeepSeek V4 Pro",
   "models": [
    "deepseek-v4-pro"
   ],
   "title": "DeepSeek raises API prices and adds peak-hour pricing",
   "before": "$0.435 in / $0.87 out",
   "after": "Today: $0.66 in / $1.98 out off-peak, double at peak",
   "detail": "It reversed the usual pattern: a Chinese lab raising prices while US labs were cutting.",
   "article": "ai-price-war-flips-deepseek-raises-us-labs-cut-2026-08-14",
   "source": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-13",
   "kind": "launch",
   "vendor": "Google",
   "product": "Gemini 3.7 Flash",
   "title": "Gemini 3.7 Flash launches at half the 3.6 Flash price",
   "before": "3.6 Flash: $1.50 in / $7.50 out",
   "after": "$0.75 in / $3.75 out (introductory)",
   "detail": "The 3.6 Flash rate was later aligned to the same introductory price and the same 31 December expiry.",
   "article": "gemini-3-7-flash-launch-price-war-coding-workhorse-2026-08-13",
   "source": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-07-24",
   "kind": "launch",
   "vendor": "Anthropic",
   "product": "Claude Opus 5",
   "models": [
    "claude-opus-5"
   ],
   "title": "Claude Opus 5 launches at half the Fable 5 price",
   "before": "Fable 5: $10 in / $50 out",
   "after": "$5 in / $25 out",
   "detail": "Near-Fable quality at half the price; it became the default on Claude Max.",
   "article": "anthropic-claude-opus-5-launch-half-price-fable-2026-07-24",
   "source": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-06-30",
   "kind": "launch",
   "vendor": "Anthropic",
   "product": "Claude Sonnet 5",
   "models": [
    "claude-sonnet-5"
   ],
   "title": "Claude Sonnet 5 launches at $2/$10",
   "before": "Sonnet 4.6: $3 in / $15 out",
   "after": "$2 in / $10 out",
   "detail": "Launched as introductory pricing and made permanent on 11 August 2026. It also introduced the newer tokenizer to the Sonnet line.",
   "article": "anthropic-claude-sonnet-5-launch-2026-06-30",
   "source": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-06-01",
   "kind": "billing",
   "vendor": "GitHub",
   "product": "GitHub Copilot",
   "tool": "github-copilot",
   "title": "Copilot moves every plan to usage-based billing",
   "before": "Flat monthly plans",
   "after": "Same prices, paid as AI Credits",
   "detail": "The monthly fee now buys an equal dollar amount of credits. Completions stay free; agentic users reported 10-50x bill spikes.",
   "article": "github-copilot-token-billing-2026-06-01",
   "source": null
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-05-19",
   "kind": "cut",
   "vendor": "Google",
   "product": "Google AI Ultra",
   "tool": "gemini",
   "title": "Google AI Ultra gets a $100 tier",
   "before": "$249.99/month",
   "after": "$99.99 (5x) or $199.99 (20x)",
   "detail": "Announced at Google I/O 2026 alongside Gemini 3.5 Flash.",
   "article": "google-io-2026-recap-2026-05-19",
   "source": "https://gemini.google/us/subscriptions/"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-05-02",
   "kind": "cut",
   "vendor": "DeepSeek",
   "product": "DeepSeek V4 Pro",
   "title": "DeepSeek cuts V4 Pro by 75%",
   "before": "$1.74 in / $3.48 out",
   "after": "$0.435 in / $0.87 out",
   "detail": "Announced as a promotion and made permanent in late May; reversed upward in August.",
   "article": "deepseek-v4-pro-75-percent-cut-2026-05-02",
   "source": null
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-04-01",
   "kind": "allowance",
   "vendor": "Google",
   "product": "Google AI Pro",
   "tool": "gemini",
   "title": "Google AI Pro's included storage goes from 2TB to 5TB",
   "before": "2 TB across Gmail, Drive and Photos at $19.99/month",
   "after": "5 TB across Gmail, Drive and Photos at $19.99/month",
   "detail": "Announced 1 April 2026 and rolled out globally with no price change; confirmed still in force on the Google One and Gemini subscription pages on 7 October 2026.",
   "article": "gemini-app-free-tier-flash-lite-ai-plus-pro-removed-unpublished-date-2026-10-04",
   "source": "https://one.google.com/about/plans"
  }
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}