AI pricing

Meta's new Muse Spark model comes with a two-tier pricing scheme: a standard rate, and a discounted 'contributor' rate — up to 95% cheaper — for customers who let Meta use their prompts and outputs for training future models. The move follows a failed attempt earlier this year to track employee computer usage for the same purpose.

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks, pricing it identically to its predecessor at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. The launch coincides with a favorable antitrust ruling and public praise from Berkshire Hathaway's Greg Abel, giving Alphabet a stronger narrative after a four-month stock slide.

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and its restricted-access sibling Mythos 5.1, more than doubling Fable 5's score on Terminal-Bench-Science and cutting cache-read pricing from $1 to $0.25 per million tokens. The models are the first Claude release to ship with built-in watermarking and a private-preview detection API.

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates just 6 billion parameters per token and previews architecture planned for Qwen4. The model outperforms the much larger Qwen3.7-Plus at roughly one-ninth the training cost and ships at $0.16 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens.

Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after its predecessor, posting sharp gains on coding benchmarks while cutting launch pricing in half to $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.

New Ramp spending data shows Anthropic's flagship Fable 5 model, priced at $10/$50 per million tokens, is seeing weak corporate adoption compared to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol. Analysts suggest frontier AI pricing may have hit a ceiling.

Meta has launched an early beta of Muse Code, a terminal-based coding agent powered by its new Muse Spark 1.2 model, aiming to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex on price. Standard pricing is $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $4.25 per 1M output tokens, with a discounted contributor tier at $0.10/$0.20 per 1M tokens.

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5, its new flagship model, claiming performance comparable to rival model Fable 5 at half the cost. The company says Opus 5 leads on several coding and knowledge-work benchmarks while requiring far less manual intervention.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, pricing it identically to Opus 4.8 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens while claiming performance approaching its higher-tier Fable 5 model. The release includes a faster processing mode, automatic safety fallbacks, and mid-conversation tool switching that preserves prompt caching.