Agent Platform Pricing Compared - August 2026
Updated August 10: Anthropic's Agent SDK credit plan died before launch, Claude Managed Agents adds a new session-hour billing line, and E2B, Modal, and Daytona all rebuilt their per-second pricing.
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LLM API Pricing Comparison - July 2026
Verified July 27: Claude Opus 5 lands at Opus 4.8 pricing ($5/$25) while claiming near-Fable-5 quality, Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts output pricing 17%, and Grok's whole lineup turns out to carry a 2x long-context surcharge nobody's headline price mentions.
AI Video Generation Pricing - July 2026
Runway cut Gen-4.5 pricing in half and Kling 3.0 went first-party - normalized per-second video API pricing across nine vendors, plus the Sora API shutdown risk nobody's pricing page mentions.
Embedding Models Pricing - June 2026
Embedding API cost comparison: voyage-4-lite, OpenAI 3-small, Jina v3, and Amazon Titan V2 tie at $0.02/MTok. Gemini Embedding 2 now GA, Cohere Embed 4 dimensions corrected to 1,536 default.
AI Coding Tools Pricing - June 2026
June 2026: GitHub Copilot moves to AI-Credits billing, Windsurf becomes Devin Desktop, and Amazon Q Developer enters EOL. Cline cheapest; Copilot Pro best value at $10/month.
Open Source LLM Hosting Costs - June 2026
Verified June 2026: real cost per million tokens for self-hosting Llama 4 Scout, Maverick, Qwen3-235B, and DeepSeek V3.2 - GPU requirements, cost formulas, and when cheap APIs actually win.
AI API Pricing Q2 2026: What Dropped and What Didn't
Q2 2026 AI API pricing review: DeepSeek V4 hits the API, GPT-5.5 launches at $5/1M, and overall token costs are down 60-80% year-over-year - but a hidden tokenizer change at Anthropic quietly raised effective prices.
Enterprise AI Platform Pricing - May 2026
Amazon Q Lite stays cheapest at $3/user, ChatGPT Business dropped to $20 annual, and Anthropic shifted Enterprise to pure usage-based billing.
Reasoning Model API Pricing Compared - May 2026
Updated May 2026: DeepSeek V4-Flash reasoning now $0.28/MTok output (8x cheaper than R1), o3-pro launched at $20/$80, Grok 4 retires May 15 - verified pricing across 11 models.
Fine-Tuning Costs Comparison - Train Your Own AI
May 2026: Together AI adds Llama 4 and DeepSeek fine-tuning, Fireworks raised deployment prices $1/hr, and H100 rentals fell to under $2.40/hr.
Image Generation API Pricing - April 2026
Per-image API costs for GPT Image 2, FLUX.2 Pro, Imagen 4, Ideogram v3, Stable Diffusion, and more - with price corrections and new additions for April 2026.
Cloud GPU Rental Pricing Compared - April 2026
Raw GPU rental rates across 20+ providers normalized to per-GPU-hour - H100, H200, A100, L40S, RTX 4090, on-demand vs spot vs reserved, with hidden costs and value-tier recommendations.
