What providers changed

Anthropic released claude-fable-5-1 on September 1, 2026. Official docs list 1M context, 128K max output, $10/$50 standard input/output per 1M, $0.25 cached input, and Batch at $5/$25. Adaptive thinking is always on. Source: anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1 and platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/fable-5-1/overview (verified 2026-09-02).

Anthropic Tier 1

Moonshot AI retired Kimi K2.5 and Moonshot V1 series. Official replacement: Kimi K3.

Moonshot AI Tier 1

Anthropic's pricing page now lists $2/$10 per 1M as Claude Sonnet 5's standard price. The increase to $3/$15 scheduled for September 1, 2026 was cancelled; cache-hit input stays $0.20. Verified 2026-08-31.

Provider changes affecting this: One screenshot in, a working page out · Drive a real browser, not a scraper · Operate a desktop application · Understand a codebase nobody has explained to you · Analyse a data file and get a chart you can trust

Anthropic Tier 1

Cache-miss input rose from a flat $0.435 to $1.32 peak / $0.66 off-peak per 1M tokens, output from $0.87 to $3.96 / $1.98, and cache-hit input from $0.003625 to $0.044 / $0.022. DeepSeek replaced flat API pricing with peak/off-peak billing at 16:00 UTC on August 16, 2026. Peak hours are 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday to Friday; all other hours bill at half the peak rate. The pricing figures here are the peak (list) rates. Source: api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing (read 2026-08-28).

DeepSeek Tier 1

Cache-miss input rose from a flat $0.14 to $0.44 peak / $0.22 off-peak per 1M tokens, output from $0.28 to $1.32 / $0.66, and cache-hit input from $0.0028 to $0.014 / $0.007. DeepSeek replaced flat API pricing with peak/off-peak billing at 16:00 UTC on August 16, 2026. Peak hours are 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday to Friday; all other hours bill at half the peak rate. The pricing figures here are the peak (list) rates. Source: api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing (read 2026-08-28).

DeepSeek Tier 1

OpenAI retired OpenAI Assistants API. Official replacement: Responses API + Conversations API.

OpenAI Tier 1

Google's pricing table now lists Gemini 3.6 Flash at $0.75/$3.75 per 1M tokens through December 31, 2026, down from the $1.50/$7.50 recorded on 2026-07-22, with $1.50/$7.50 returning January 1, 2027. Context caching drops to $0.075. Source: ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing (read 2026-08-24).

Google Tier 1

Moonshot released kimi-k3 on 2026-07-16 and later published official weights. Global hosted pricing is $3 cache-miss input, $0.30 cache-hit input, and $15 output per 1M; the model card lists 2.8T total and 104B active parameters. Source: kimi.ai technical blog, platform.kimi.ai docs, and the official Moonshot AI model card (verified 2026-08-21).

Moonshot AI Tier 1

xAI launched grok-4.6 on 2026-08-12. Official pricing lists $2 input / $0.50 cached / $6 output per 1M below 200K prompt tokens, and $4 / $1 / $12 at or above 200K; the higher tier applies to all tokens in that request. The developer guide lists 500K context and no numeric text-output limit. Sources: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6, https://docs.x.ai/developers/pricing, and https://docs.x.ai/developers/grok-4-6 (verified 2026-08-21).

xAI Tier 1

Z.AI released the hosted glm-5.3 endpoint on 2026-08-18 with $1.40/$4.40 per 1M, $0.26 cached input, 1M context, and 128K max output. Weights were announced for later release after safety hardening and were not recorded as available. Source: z.ai/blog/glm-5.3 and docs.z.ai (verified 2026-08-21).

Z.ai Tier 1

Google released gemini-3.7-flash as stable GA on 2026-08-13. Introductory Standard pricing through 2026-12-31 is $0.75/$3.75 per 1M with $0.075 cached input; scheduled 2027 Standard pricing is $1.50/$7.50. Source: ai.google.dev Gemini API changelog, model, latest-model, and pricing pages (verified 2026-08-21).

Provider changes affecting this: Let the model write and run real code mid-answer · Fit a whole codebase in one prompt, and find its limit · Understand a codebase nobody has explained to you · Analyse a data file and get a chart you can trust

Google Tier 1

Anthropic retired Anthropic experimental prompt tools API and Workbench.

Anthropic Tier 1

OpenAI retired GPT-5.2 / 5.3 chat-latest snapshots. Official replacement: GPT-5.6 Sol.

OpenAI Tier 1

Google retired Gemini Embedding 2 Preview. Official replacement: Gemini Embedding 2.

Google Tier 1

Anthropic retired Claude Opus 4.1. Official replacement: Claude Opus 4.8.

Anthropic Tier 1

Google announced the deprecation of Gemini Robotics ER 1.6 Preview. Official replacement: Gemini Robotics ER 2 Preview.

Google Tier 1

DeepSeek retired deepseek-chat / deepseek-reasoner (legacy aliases). Official replacement: DeepSeek V4-Flash / DeepSeek V4-Pro.

DeepSeek Tier 1

Anthropic retired Claude Opus 4.7 fast mode. Official replacement: Claude Opus 4.8 fast mode or Claude Opus 4.7 standard mode.

Anthropic Tier 1

OpenAI retired GPT-5 era Codex models. Official replacement: GPT-5.5.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI retired o4-mini-deep-research. Official replacement: GPT-5.5 Pro.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI retired o3-deep-research. Official replacement: GPT-5.5 Pro.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI retired GPT-5 / 5.1 chat-latest snapshots. Official replacement: GPT-5.5.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI retired computer-use-preview. Official replacement: GPT-5.4 mini.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of OpenAI legacy audio, realtime, and transcription models. Official replacement: GPT Realtime 2.1 / GPT Audio 1.5.

OpenAI Tier 1

Correction after live re-read of Anthropic's official pricing page: Claude Sonnet 5 launches with introductory API pricing of $2 input / $10 output per 1M tokens through August 31, 2026, then $3/$15 from September 1, 2026. Previous benchr July 1 entry incorrectly recorded $4/$20. Source: platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing

Provider changes affecting this: One screenshot in, a working page out · Drive a real browser, not a scraper · Operate a desktop application · Understand a codebase nobody has explained to you · Analyse a data file and get a chart you can trust

Anthropic Tier 1

Released July 1, 2026. Anthropic's second Mythos-class-architecture model after Fable 5, priced mid-tier between Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.8; 128,000-token max output. Safety-classified requests return an explicit refusal; another-model retry requires configured application logic. Shipped the same day Anthropic restored Claude Fable 5 to all customers. Source: anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5

Provider changes affecting this: One screenshot in, a working page out · Drive a real browser, not a scraper · Operate a desktop application · Understand a codebase nobody has explained to you · Analyse a data file and get a chart you can trust

Anthropic Tier 1

Google retired Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview. Official replacement: Gemini 3 Pro Image (stable).

Google Tier 1

Google retired Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview. Official replacement: Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (stable).

Google Tier 1

Google announced the deprecation of Imagen 4.0 image models. Official replacement: Gemini 3.1 Flash Image.

Google Tier 1

Anthropic retired Claude Sonnet 4. Official replacement: Claude Sonnet 4.6.

Anthropic Tier 1

Anthropic retired Claude Opus 4. Official replacement: Claude Opus 4.8.

Anthropic Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of Older GPT-5 and o3 model snapshots. Official replacement: GPT-5.5 / GPT-5.4 mini / GPT-5.4 nano / GPT-5.5 Pro.

OpenAI Tier 1

Re-added after verification. Released March 5, 2026; wrongly removed June 1 as 'unverified'. Source: openai.com/api/pricing

OpenAI Tier 1

Released June 9, 2026. Mythos-class and generally available; safety-classified cyber/bio/distillation requests return an explicit refusal, and another-model retry requires configured application logic. Suspended June 12 and restored globally July 1, 2026. Source: anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5

Provider changes affecting this: Drive a real browser, not a scraper · Operate a desktop application · Stop paying twice for the same file · Automate something on a site that has no API · Cut the API bill without changing the answer

Anthropic Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of OpenAI Reusable Prompts API.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of OpenAI Evals platform (dashboard + API).

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of OpenAI Agent Builder. Official replacement: Agents SDK.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of GPT Image 1 mini and 1.5. Official replacement: GPT Image 2.

OpenAI Tier 1

Mistral Large 3 released December 2, 2025. Apache 2.0. API id: mistral-large-2512. Source: mistral.ai/technology/models

Mistral AI Tier 1

Llama 4 Scout released April 5, 2025. Community License. 10M token context. Self-hosted. Source: ai.meta.com/llama

Provider changes affecting this: Run a capable model on your own machine · Cut the API bill without changing the answer · Use a model without sending anything anywhere

Meta Tier 1

Llama 4 Maverick released April 5, 2025. Community License. Self-hosted, no API fee. Source: ai.meta.com/llama

Meta Tier 1

Kimi K2.6 released April 20, 2026. Modified MIT. Source: platform.moonshot.ai/docs/pricing

Moonshot AI Tier 1

Grok 4.3 — $1.25/$2.50; cached $0.20. Source: x.ai/api

xAI Tier 1

GPT-5 launched August 7, 2025. $1.25/$10. Source: openai.com/pricing

Provider changes affecting this: Get JSON that always matches your schema · Analyse a data file and get a chart you can trust · Get output a program can consume, every single time

OpenAI Tier 1

GPT-5 Mini — $0.25/$2.00. Cached input $0.025. Source: openai.com/pricing

OpenAI Tier 1

GPT-5.5 launched April 24, 2026. $5/$30 standard; $2.50/$15 batch. Source: openai.com/pricing

Provider changes affecting this: Get JSON that always matches your schema · Analyse a data file and get a chart you can trust · Get output a program can consume, every single time

OpenAI Tier 1

Gemini 3.5 Flash GA since May 19, 2026 (Google I/O). $1.50/$9.00. Source: ai.google.dev/pricing

Provider changes affecting this: Let the model write and run real code mid-answer · Analyse a data file and get a chart you can trust · Get output a program can consume, every single time

Google Tier 1

Google retired Gemini 2.0 Flash family. Official replacement: Gemini 3.5 Flash.

Google Tier 1

DeepSeek V4-Pro launched April 24, 2026. MIT license. Source: api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing

DeepSeek Tier 1

DeepSeek V4-Flash launched April 24, 2026. MIT license. Cheapest commercial API in this set. Source: api-docs.deepseek.com

DeepSeek Tier 1

Claude Opus 4.8 launched May 28, 2026. $5/$25 standard; $10/$50 fast mode. SWE-Bench Pro 69.2%. 1M context window confirmed on platform.claude.com. Source: anthropic.com/news

Provider changes affecting this: Drive a real browser, not a scraper · Operate a desktop application · Let the model write and run real code mid-answer · Understand a codebase nobody has explained to you · Analyse a data file and get a chart you can trust

Anthropic Tier 1

OpenAI retired DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3. Official replacement: GPT Image 2.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of o4-mini. Official replacement: GPT-5.4 mini.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of o3-mini. Official replacement: GPT-5.5.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of o1-pro. Official replacement: GPT-5.5 Pro.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of o1. Official replacement: GPT-5.5.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of GPT Image 1. Official replacement: GPT Image 2.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of GPT-4o. Official replacement: GPT-5.5.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of GPT-4 Turbo. Official replacement: GPT-5.5.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of GPT-4.1 nano. Official replacement: GPT-5.4 nano.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of GPT-4. Official replacement: GPT-5.5.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of GPT-3.5 Turbo. Official replacement: GPT-5.4 mini.

OpenAI Tier 1

Anthropic retired Claude Haiku 3. Official replacement: Claude Haiku 4.5.

Anthropic Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of Sora 2 and Sora 2 Pro.

OpenAI Tier 1

OpenAI announced the deprecation of OpenAI Videos API.

OpenAI Tier 1

Google retired Gemini 3 Pro Preview. Official replacement: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.

Google Tier 1

Anthropic retired Claude Sonnet 3.7. Official replacement: Claude Sonnet 4.6.

Anthropic Tier 1

Anthropic retired Claude Haiku 3.5. Official replacement: Claude Haiku 4.5.

Anthropic Tier 1

Anthropic retired Claude 3 Opus. Official replacement: Claude Opus 4.8.

Anthropic Tier 1

Anthropic retired Claude Sonnet 3.5 (both snapshots). Official replacement: Claude Sonnet 4.6.

Anthropic Tier 1