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.
Articles Tagged "Pricing"
Muse Spark 1.1 Review: Cheap, Capable, US-Only
Meta's second Muse Spark ships with a real API, a 1M-token context window and the cheapest pricing among frontier-class agents, but only US developers can touch it.
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.
Claude Opus 5 Review: Near-Fable Power, Half Price
Claude Opus 5 ties Claude Fable 5 on independent benchmarks at roughly a quarter of the cost, though a rough launch week and cybersecurity limits keep it from being an unqualified win.
Claude Opus 5
Anthropic's July 2026 release prices near-Fable-5 coding and agentic performance at Opus 4.8 rates, doubling Frontier-Bench scores and landing within 0.5 points of Fable 5 on CursorBench at half the cost.
Anthropic's Opus 5 Chases Fable 5 at Half the Price
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, pitching it as near-Fable 5 intelligence at half the cost rather than a new smartest model, with weaker safety classifiers and a new effort-level toggle.
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.
Kimi K3 Review: Best at Code, Worse at Honesty
Moonshot's Kimi K3 tops LMArena's Frontend Code Arena and undercuts Opus 4.8 on cost per task, but a tripled price tag, a rising hallucination rate, and an unresolved distillation question complicate the win.
Kimi K3 Tops Frontend Arena Just as Its Price Triples
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 jumped 17 spots to #1 on LMArena's Frontend Code Arena, but the win comes with a tripled price tag and a weaker showing on broader intelligence benchmarks.
GitHub Copilot Goes Metered - Agentic Devs See 25x Bills
June 30 closes GitHub Copilot's first full month under token-based billing. Some agentic developers are looking at monthly costs 25x higher than their old flat-rate plans.
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.
Sora 2
OpenAI's Sora 2 generates physics-accurate video with synchronized audio from text or images, available API-only until its September 24, 2026 sunset.
