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Rate cards, cached-input discounts and peak/off-peak schedules that determine the cost of long-running, token-heavy agent workloads.
OpenAI's Sol, Terra and Luna tiers went generally available on July 9, 2026, and a pricing update three weeks later cut Luna by around 80%. Upgrading is now a per-workload call.
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Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro and GLM-5.3 all chase agents that stay on task. The pricing underneath them is moving faster than the benchmarks.
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V4 Pro shipped with an API price increase of up to 12-fold, and Moonshot AI and ByteDance have added paid tiers. Anyone whose margins assumed cheap Chinese endpoints needs to re-model.
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Cache-hit pricing went from 0.025 to 0.3 yuan, peak and off-peak rates arrived, and Moonshot, ByteDance and Alibaba are moving the same direction. Reprice now.
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