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DeepSeek V4 Pro: 75% Price Cut Becomes Permanent
DeepSeek makes its 75% V4-Pro discount permanent: $0.435 input, $0.87 output per million tokens. What the price pressure means for model choice.
LLM-Pricing
Was kosten KI-Modelle? Token-Preise, Input vs. Output, Tool Use, Batch-Rabatte, Prompt Caching.
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MiniMax M3: Open-Weight Frontier Model With Sparse Attention
MiniMax M3 launches as an open-weight model with sparse attention, a 1M context window and frontier-level coding benchmarks — at a fraction of the cost.
News
GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro are live — and Pro costs six times the standard model
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro on 23 April 2026. Pro lists at $30/$180 per MTok — six times the standard price. What that means.
News
Anthropic introduces volume tier discounts for the Claude API
Tiered discounts kick in automatically from $50,000 monthly spend. What changes for heavy users and when moving up the tier pays off.
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AI providers move toward usage-based pricing — what is shifting right now
Anthropic, OpenAI and Cursor are tilting flat rates toward metered billing. What has concretely changed and what hits you.
News
Qwen 3.7 Max — Alibaba's agentic flagship with a 1M context
Alibaba ships Qwen 3.7 Max: 1M context, 35h autonomous, 1,158 tool calls. What the agentic flagship does and why vendor benchmarks call for caution.
Blog
Prompt Caching in practice: from €280 to €47 per month
Real numbers from a customer setup with Claude Sonnet. What prompt caching delivers, when it pays off — and where the pitfalls are.
Blog
Usage-based instead of flat-rate: The AI cost turn was predictable — and here is how to absorb it
AI providers are pushing flat rates toward metered billing. Why it had to happen, what it costs and three levers that soften the shift.