
LLM API Pricing Comparison - July 2026
Verified July 6: Claude Sonnet 5 at $2/$10 intro through Aug 31, Fable 5 restored after export-control suspension, GLM-5.2 enters at $1.40/$4.40, DeepSeek peak-hour doubling starts mid-July.
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Verified July 6: Claude Sonnet 5 at $2/$10 intro through Aug 31, Fable 5 restored after export-control suspension, GLM-5.2 enters at $1.40/$4.40, DeepSeek peak-hour doubling starts mid-July.

Mistral's first open-weight text-to-speech model: 4B parameters, 70ms latency, voice cloning from 3 seconds of audio, and a 68.4% win rate over ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 in blind tests.

ElevenLabs Scribe v2 leads ASR at 2.2% WER after a price cut to $3.67/1000 min, Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-1.5 debuted at #3, and Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS now tops the naturalness leaderboard.

Mistral's 128B open-weight model consolidates reasoning, coding, and vision into one checkpoint, with remote agents that file pull requests autonomously.

The EU Commission has warned that Washington's Anthropic export ban is discriminatory against allies, as European politicians demand AI sovereignty and Dario Amodei heads to the G7 in France.

Mistral AI is in talks to raise €3 billion at a €20 billion valuation, nearly doubling its September 2025 price tag in under a year and cementing its status as Europe's most valuable AI company.

Mistral AI's mid-tier open-weight edge model - 8B parameters, 256K context, Apache 2.0 license, built for agentic pipelines and cost-sensitive production workloads.

Mistral's open-weight coding agent model - 123B parameters, 256K context window, 72.2% on SWE-bench Verified, priced at $0.40/M input tokens.

Mistral AI's largest Ministral 3 model - 14B parameters, 256K context, Apache 2.0 license, multimodal, built for local deployment and agentic workflows.

Mistral rebrands Le Chat as Vibe, ships Work Mode with enterprise integrations, a VS Code extension, and remote coding agents powered by Mistral Medium 3.5 at 77.6% SWE-Bench.

Mistral acquired Vienna-based Emmi AI and launched Physics AI - models that replace multi-day engineering simulations with seconds of inference on a single GPU.

Mistral AI's smallest open-weight model - 3B parameters, 256K context, Apache 2.0 license, built for edge and cost-sensitive deployments.