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A comprehensive pricing guide covering 42 AI models from 10 providers. Budget models start under $0.10/M tokens, Claude 4 Opus and Sonnet 4 were retired June 15, and OpenAI launched the GPT-5.5 family. Teams can save 60-80% by choosing wisely.
Tencent Cloud's Token Plan targets AI agents and coding tools. Here is a cost-per-token breakdown and the best-value choice for different users.
Recent pricing trackers show a clear pattern: AI coding tools are clustering around $20/month for Pro plans and $200/month for power users.
Anthropic releases its first publicly available Mythos-class model, Claude Fable 5, with a limited free access window for Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise subscribers until June 22. The model delivers 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro — 11 points ahead of the nearest competitor.
Inception Labs says its Mercury diffusion language models can generate code at more than 1,000 tokens per second on H100 GPUs.
Volcengine Ark is running a limited-time Coding Plan promotion with 75% off Lite and Pro subscriptions for the first two months.