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30 posts about Pricing from Simon Carter.
OpenAI's Ultrafast service tier for GPT-6 Astra exits its grace period on 5 October 2026. Here's what you'll pay and what to expect.
Microsoft has pushed the CSP usage-based billing default date to 1 December 2026 and confirmed a 4,000 Copilot Credits/user/month spending cap.
GPT-6.1 Sol brings near-Astra benchmark results to the API and ChatGPT Work at $2/M input and $0.10/M cached tokens.
OpenAI's Ultrafast tier delivers up to 8× faster token generation for GPT-6 Astra. Available now via service_tier: 'ultrafast'. Billing starts 5 October 2026.
OpenAI's Pro 500 plan costs $500/month, offers 25x the Plus usage allowance, and is the only tier with Astra Ultrafast access.
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol offers near-Astra performance at $2/$10 per million tokens. Here's what the pricing and new Pro 500 plan mean for you.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 runs 30%+ faster at unchanged Sonnet 5 pricing, adds cyber safeguards, and ships with zero data retention across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 on key benchmarks, cuts API costs 20: 60%, and raises usage limits for Pro and Team subscribers.
From 19 October 2026, new Copilot Business licences include default usage-based billing for agentic AI. Admins need to act before then.
From 17 September 2026, new and renewed Gemini Enterprise Standard and Plus subscriptions no longer include Gemini Code Assist by default.
Anthropic's permanent 25% limit increase from 14 September 2026 is a 17% cut versus the temporary boost users have relied on since May.
The temporary 50% boost to Claude Code weekly limits ends 13 September 2026. The permanent replacement is 25% above the original baseline: not today's.
OpenAI's Images 2.5 replaces 2.0 across all ChatGPT tiers and the API, cutting latency by 50% and adding Sketch, comment editing, and two new model IDs.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on 3 September 2026, with Greg Brockman calling it a generational leap and suggesting it may represent AGI.
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash launched on 2 September 2026 at the same $0.75/$3.75 introductory price as 3.7 Flash, with stronger agentic and coding scores.
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 with cache reads cut 75% to $0.25/MTok, saving up to 45% on agentic workloads. Mythos 5.1 stays restricted.
Anthropic has confirmed the $2/$10 per million token rate for Claude Sonnet 5 is now permanent. The planned 50% increase from 1 September 2026 will not happen.
Anthropic's new Claude Team plan gives verified researchers free or $15/month premium seats, expands science credits to $50k, and enrolls first Mythos users.
Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash hits the API with big coding and agent gains at half price until end of 2026, plus Omni 1.1 Flash adds 4K video tools.
Three free Copilot features are being cut on 18 August 2026. Here's what you need to save, what it costs to keep Deep Research, and what's changing.
ChatGPT for PowerPoint's free promotional period ends 6 August 2026. Enterprise and Business customers then move to token-based credit billing.
Google's new Gemini 3.6 Flash uses 17% fewer output tokens, scores 83% on computer use, and costs $1.50/$7.50 per million tokens.
The Copilot Business promotional price of $18/user/month ends June 30. Here's what the new pricing means and whether the bundles make sense for your team.
OpenAI drops Luna API prices to $0.20/$1.20 per million tokens and trims Terra by 20%, calling it the beginning of an 'abundance flywheel' strategy.
Claude Code Pro/Max limits stay 50% higher through August 19, 2026. Sonnet 5 API intro pricing ends August 31 — and a tokenizer change makes the real cost rise bigger than it looks.
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has graduated from preview to GA, locking in pricing at $0.25/1M input and $1.50/1M output tokens.
Anthropic pulled back its planned Agent SDK credit separation on June 15, the day it was set to go live, saying it will rework the plan before any future change.
Microsoft's July 2026 pricing update bundles Copilot Chat, extra storage, and security tools into most M365 plans, with price rises of 5–43%.
OpenAI switches container billing to per-minute with a 5-minute minimum from June 2, 2026, cutting costs for sessions under 20 minutes.
GitHub Copilot replaced flat premium request units with token-based AI Credits on June 1, 2026. Here's what changed and who it affects most.