Every logged change to AI subscription prices, API rates and included usage, compiled by Pick Right's automated AI desk from vendor pricing pages.https://pick-right.com/en-ushttps://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2027-01-01-every-gemini-flash-rate-doubles/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2027-01-01-every-gemini-flash-rate-doubles/Google · Gemini 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 Flash. $0.75 in / $3.75 out → $1.50 in / $7.50 out. 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. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/gemini-3-8-flash-fourth-flash-shared-january-price-cliff-2026-09-03/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTGooglescheduledinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-11-21-gpt-5-6-sol-promotional-rate-guaranteed-only-to-/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-11-21-gpt-5-6-sol-promotional-rate-guaranteed-only-to-/OpenAI · GPT-5.6 Sol. $4 in / $20 out → List price was $5 in / $30 out. 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. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/openai-sol-price-cut-promotional-clock-expiry-2026-08-22/Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpenAIscheduledinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-10-30-chatgpt-pro-200-s-included-usage-halves/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-10-30-chatgpt-pro-200-s-included-usage-halves/OpenAI · ChatGPT Pro 200. 20x Plus usage for $200 → 10x Plus usage for $200. 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. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/openai-chatgpt-pro-500-deleted-the-volume-discount-2026-10-01/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpenAIscheduledinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-10-22-every-veo-endpoint-leaves-the-gemini-api/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-10-22-every-veo-endpoint-leaves-the-gemini-api/Google · Veo 3.1 on the Gemini API. $0.40 / $0.10 / $0.05 per sec (720p) → gemini-omni-1.1-flash at $0.1014 per sec. 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. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/google-io-2026-recap-2026-05-19/Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTGooglescheduledinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-10-09-free-gemini-drops-to-flash-lite-ai-plus-loses-th/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-10-09-free-gemini-drops-to-flash-lite-ai-plus-loses-th/Google · Gemini app (Free and Google AI Plus). Free and Plus include Gemini 3.1 Pro access → Free: Flash-Lite only. Plus: no Pro model. 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. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/gemini-app-free-tier-flash-lite-ai-plus-pro-removed-unpublished-date-2026-10-04/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGooglescheduledinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-10-08-ultrafast-gets-a-price-on-the-mid-tier-and-eu-da/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-10-08-ultrafast-gets-a-price-on-the-mid-tier-and-eu-da/OpenAI · GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast. No published Ultrafast rate for Sol; Astra Ultrafast only, at $60 in / $300 out → $12 in / $60 out (6x standard), US and EU data residency. 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. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/openai-sol-ultrafast-priced-eu-residency-astra-still-cannot-buy-speed-2026-10-09/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpenAIlaunchinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-10-07-claude-haiku-5-5-launches-with-anthropic-s-first/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-10-07-claude-haiku-5-5-launches-with-anthropic-s-first/Anthropic · Claude Haiku 5.5. Haiku 4.5 at $1 in / $5 out, flat → $0.10 in / $0.50 out below 100K-token prompts; $0.50 in / $2.50 out above. 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. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/anthropic-haiku-5-5-hundred-thousand-token-cliff-sonnet-cache-cut-2026-10-08/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnthropiclaunchinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-10-07-sonnet-5-5-s-cache-read-halves/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-10-07-sonnet-5-5-s-cache-read-halves/Anthropic · Claude Sonnet 5.5. $0.20 cached input per million tokens → $0.10 cached input per million tokens. 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. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/anthropic-haiku-5-5-hundred-thousand-token-cliff-sonnet-cache-cut-2026-10-08/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnthropiccutinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-10-06-mistral-large-4-launches-priced-below-mistral-s-/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-10-06-mistral-large-4-launches-priced-below-mistral-s-/Mistral · Mistral Large 4. Mistral Medium 3.5 at $1.50 in / $7.50 out, 256K context → $1.36 in / $0.14 cached / $4.18 out list, 1M context. 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. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/mistral-large-4-flagship-undercuts-its-own-mid-tier-sale-with-no-end-date-2026-10-06/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTMistrallaunchinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-29-chatgpt-pro-500-launches-at-500-a-month/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-29-chatgpt-pro-500-launches-at-500-a-month/OpenAI · ChatGPT Pro 500. $500/month, 25x Plus usage, Ultrafast. Launched at DevDay alongside a reopened Pro 200. Per unit of Plus allowance it costs exactly what Plus does. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/openai-chatgpt-pro-500-deleted-the-volume-discount-2026-10-01/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpenAIlaunchinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-29-gpt-6-1-sol-halves-cached-input/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-29-gpt-6-1-sol-halves-cached-input/OpenAI · GPT-6.1 Sol. GPT-6 Sol: $0.20 cached input → $2 in / $10 out, $0.10 cached input. 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. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/openai-gpt-6-1-sol-two-dollar-collision-list-price-least-informative-number-2026-09-30/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpenAIlaunchinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-28-claude-sonnet-5-5-holds-sonnet-5-s-price/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-28-claude-sonnet-5-5-holds-sonnet-5-s-price/Anthropic · Claude Sonnet 5.5. Sonnet 5: $2 in / $10 out → $2 in / $10 out. 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. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/anthropic-claude-sonnet-5-5-same-price-five-breaking-changes-2026-09-30/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnthropiclaunchinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-24-anthropic-starts-billing-some-refusals/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-24-anthropic-starts-billing-some-refusals/Anthropic · Claude API refusals. Refusals free → Input tokens billed for bio, frontier_llm and reasoning_extraction refusals. Refusals in three of five categories now bill input tokens at the full model rate even when nothing is returned. Subscriptions are unaffected. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/anthropic-billed-refusals-bio-frontier-llm-reasoning-extraction-2026-09-27/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnthropicbillinginfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-22-gpt-6-sol-and-luna-launch-at-half-the-gpt-5-6-pr/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-22-gpt-6-sol-and-luna-launch-at-half-the-gpt-5-6-pr/OpenAI · GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. GPT-5.6 Sol $4/$20 → Sol $2/$10, Luna $0.10/$0.50. 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. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/openai-gpt-6-sol-luna-half-price-astra-premium-doubled-2026-09-23/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpenAIcutinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-22-claude-opus-5-5-lands-20-below-opus-5/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-22-claude-opus-5-5-lands-20-below-opus-5/Anthropic · Claude Opus 5.5. Opus 5: $5 in / $25 out, $0.50 cache reads → $4 in / $20 out, $0.20 cache reads. Anthropic's "40% cheaper to run" is half rate card and half a default effort level that dropped from high to medium. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/anthropic-opus-5-5-forty-percent-is-a-default-not-a-discount-2026-09-22/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnthropiccutinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-21-grok-4-7-keeps-the-2-6-rate-card/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-21-grok-4-7-keeps-the-2-6-rate-card/xAI · Grok 4.7. Grok 4.6: $2 in / $6 out → $2 in / $6 out. 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. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/spacexai-grok-4-7-same-rate-card-bigger-base-model-effort-column-2026-09-21/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTxAIlaunchinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-14-claude-code-weekly-limits-shrink-about-17/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-14-claude-code-weekly-limits-shrink-about-17/Anthropic · Claude Code (Pro, Max, Team). Temporary +50% boost → Permanent +25% over the pre-May base. Seat prices unchanged. Anthropic has never published the absolute weekly figure the percentages refer to. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/claude-code-weekly-limits-17-percent-cut-undisclosed-base-2026-09-13/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnthropicallowanceinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-10-deepseek-v4-1-flash-launches-up-to-86-below-v4-p/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-10-deepseek-v4-1-flash-launches-up-to-86-below-v4-p/DeepSeek · DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. $0.15 in / $0.60 out off-peak. Peak hours on weekdays cost double. A planned forced migration from V4 Pro was reversed on 14 September. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/deepseek-v4-1-flash-pro-routing-capability-downgrade-peak-hours-2026-09-10/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDeepSeeklaunchinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-03-gpt-6-astra-launches-at-2-5x-gpt-5-6-sol/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-03-gpt-6-astra-launches-at-2-5x-gpt-5-6-sol/OpenAI · GPT-6 Astra. $10 in / $50 out. OpenAI argued price per task, not per token. Prompts over 272K tokens bill at 2x input and 1.5x output for the whole request. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/gpt-6-astra-launch-price-per-task-arithmetic-272k-cliff-2026-09-04/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpenAIlaunchinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-02-gemini-3-8-flash-launches-on-the-same-introducto/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-02-gemini-3-8-flash-launches-on-the-same-introducto/Google · Gemini 3.8 Flash. $0.75 in / $3.75 out until 31 Dec. Same price and same expiry as 3.7 Flash three weeks earlier. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/gemini-3-8-flash-fourth-flash-shared-january-price-cliff-2026-09-03/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTGooglelaunchinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-01-keeping-foundry-inference-in-the-eu-got-more-exp/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-01-keeping-foundry-inference-in-the-eu-got-more-exp/Microsoft · Foundry EU Data Zone deployments. EU Data Zone at 10% over Global → EU Data Zone at 20% over Global; US Data Zone unchanged at 10%. Microsoft's Foundry model deployment pricing update took effect on this date, raising EU Data Zone and non-US Regional prices and launching an APAC Data Zone. Microsoft's own GPT-6 Foundry announcement now prices Data Zone deployments at 10% over Global for the US and 20% for the EU, so residency inside Europe costs double what residency inside the US costs. Azure's public pricing page still renders the GPT-6 rows as '$-' and refers readers to the blog, so the premium is not currently readable from the price list. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/gpt-6-astra-eu-data-residency-no-fast-tier-capability-gap-2026-09-06/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTMicrosoftincreaseinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-01-fable-5-1-cuts-only-the-cache-read-rate/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-01-fable-5-1-cuts-only-the-cache-read-rate/Anthropic · Claude Fable 5.1. $1.00 cache reads → $0.25 cache reads ($10/$50 base unchanged). Worth close to 50% on cache-heavy coding agents and under 5% on conversational traffic. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/anthropic-fable-5-1-cache-read-price-cut-workload-shape-2026-09-01/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnthropiccutinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-01-copilot-s-promotional-credits-end/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-09-01-copilot-s-promotional-credits-end/GitHub · Copilot Business and Enterprise. Business 3,000 / Enterprise 7,000 credits per user → Business 1,900 / Enterprise 3,900. Seat prices unchanged; the included budget fell by up to 44%. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/github-copilot-promotional-credits-expire-included-usage-drop-2026-09-01/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTGitHuballowanceinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-08-21-gpt-5-6-sol-cut-to-4-20-as-a-promotion/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-08-21-gpt-5-6-sol-cut-to-4-20-as-a-promotion/OpenAI · GPT-5.6 Sol. $5 in / $30 out → $4 in / $20 out. The first time an OpenAI frontier tier undercut Claude Opus on both input and output. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/openai-sol-price-cut-promotional-clock-expiry-2026-08-22/Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTOpenAIcutinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-08-17-deepseek-raises-api-prices-and-adds-peak-hour-pr/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-08-17-deepseek-raises-api-prices-and-adds-peak-hour-pr/DeepSeek · DeepSeek V4 Pro. $0.435 in / $0.87 out → Today: $0.66 in / $1.98 out off-peak, double at peak. It reversed the usual pattern: a Chinese lab raising prices while US labs were cutting. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/ai-price-war-flips-deepseek-raises-us-labs-cut-2026-08-14/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDeepSeekincreaseinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-08-13-gemini-3-7-flash-launches-at-half-the-3-6-flash-/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-08-13-gemini-3-7-flash-launches-at-half-the-3-6-flash-/Google · Gemini 3.7 Flash. 3.6 Flash: $1.50 in / $7.50 out → $0.75 in / $3.75 out (introductory). The 3.6 Flash rate was later aligned to the same introductory price and the same 31 December expiry. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/gemini-3-7-flash-launch-price-war-coding-workhorse-2026-08-13/Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTGooglelaunchinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-07-24-claude-opus-5-launches-at-half-the-fable-5-price/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-07-24-claude-opus-5-launches-at-half-the-fable-5-price/Anthropic · Claude Opus 5. Fable 5: $10 in / $50 out → $5 in / $25 out. Near-Fable quality at half the price; it became the default on Claude Max. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/anthropic-claude-opus-5-launch-half-price-fable-2026-07-24/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnthropiclaunchinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-06-30-claude-sonnet-5-launches-at-2-10/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-06-30-claude-sonnet-5-launches-at-2-10/Anthropic · Claude Sonnet 5. Sonnet 4.6: $3 in / $15 out → $2 in / $10 out. Launched as introductory pricing and made permanent on 11 August 2026. It also introduced the newer tokenizer to the Sonnet line. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/anthropic-claude-sonnet-5-launch-2026-06-30/Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnthropiclaunchinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-06-01-copilot-moves-every-plan-to-usage-based-billing/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-06-01-copilot-moves-every-plan-to-usage-based-billing/GitHub · GitHub Copilot. Flat monthly plans → Same prices, paid as AI Credits. The monthly fee now buys an equal dollar amount of credits. Completions stay free; agentic users reported 10-50x bill spikes. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/github-copilot-token-billing-2026-06-01/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTGitHubbillinginfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-05-19-google-ai-ultra-gets-a-100-tier/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-05-19-google-ai-ultra-gets-a-100-tier/Google · Google AI Ultra. $249.99/month → $99.99 (5x) or $199.99 (20x). Announced at Google I/O 2026 alongside Gemini 3.5 Flash. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/google-io-2026-recap-2026-05-19/Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTGooglecutinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-05-02-deepseek-cuts-v4-pro-by-75/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-05-02-deepseek-cuts-v4-pro-by-75/DeepSeek · DeepSeek V4 Pro. $1.74 in / $3.48 out → $0.435 in / $0.87 out. Announced as a promotion and made permanent in late May; reversed upward in August. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/deepseek-v4-pro-75-percent-cut-2026-05-02/Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTDeepSeekcutinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-04-01-google-ai-pro-s-included-storage-goes-from-2tb-t/https://pick-right.com/pricing-tracker/#evt-2026-04-01-google-ai-pro-s-included-storage-goes-from-2tb-t/Google · Google AI Pro. 2 TB across Gmail, Drive and Photos at $19.99/month → 5 TB across Gmail, Drive and Photos at $19.99/month. 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. Analysis: https://pick-right.com/news/gemini-app-free-tier-flash-lite-ai-plus-pro-removed-unpublished-date-2026-10-04/Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTGoogleallowanceinfo@pick-right.com (Pick Right AI Desk)