OpenCode makes $60 of DeepSeek v4.1 Flash usage permanent
Under Operation Cheepseek Phase 2, OpenCode says $60 of usage for DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now permanent.
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View all AI newsHy Image 3.5 preview is live on GMI Cloud at $0.024 per image
GMI Cloud is offering the Hy Image 3.5 preview at $0.024 per image, a rate it says is 8.8x cheaper than GPT Image 2 and 5.6x cheaper than Nano Banana Pro.
Claude Code cloud sessions run on Pro or Max plans and spend one-time credits first
ClaudeDevs says officially available Claude Code cloud sessions are billed on Pro or Max plans like the rest of Claude Code. Existing subscribers get an optional one-time credit of $100 on Pro or $250 on Max, which those sessions spend before normal plan usage.
Claude Opus 5.5 scores 66 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index
At max effort in Claude Code, Artificial Analysis measures Opus 5.5 at 66, above Opus 5 at 60 and Claude Fable 5.1 at 62. Its cost per task is $13.04, higher than Opus 5’s $10.79 despite lower token prices.
Together AI releases tev1-4B-experimental on Together serverless
The Jev-like classifier is finetuned on Qwen3.5 4B and priced at $0.042/M input and $0/M output. Together AI is also releasing a data recipe and a finetuning tutorial, and says training Tev1 cost $17.
Together AI offers 40% off Qwen3.7-Max and Qwen3.8-Flash on serverless through September 30
The discount applies to both Alibaba_Qwen models on Together AI serverless and runs through September 30. Together AI recommends Qwen3.7-Max for long-horizon agent work and Qwen3.8-Flash for high-volume, cost-sensitive workloads.
Recraft V4.1 Flash is live on OpenRouter
OpenRouter lists Recraft V4.1 Flash at $0.007 per image and 1.3 seconds per image. It says the output still looks like Recraft for photography, portraits, complex scenes, logos, and early concepts.
Artificial Analysis prices Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS at $32.98 per million characters
Artificial Analysis lists Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS at $22.07 per million characters. Both are above Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS and SpaceXAI TTS, and below Eleven v3.
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Pronunciation Robustness Benchmark
Artificial Analysis says Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, Google DeepMind text-to-speech models with preset voices and voice replication. On its tests, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS scores 89.5% in pronunciation robustness and an Elo of 1,263 on the Provider Voice Arena.
Space Bunny Alpha is free, and its provider does not train on prompts or completions
OpenRouter says the stealth model Space Bunny Alpha is free. This time, the provider does not train on prompts or completions.
OpenCode offers Space Bunny free for one week
On September 23, 2026, OpenCode said Space Bunny, a stealth model, would be free for the next week.
Qwen introduces Qwen-Audio-3.1 and cuts TTS, Realtime, and ASR prices
The lineup upgrades ASR, TTS, and Realtime and adds ASR-Next for audio understanding and TTS-Next for audio creation. Qwen puts the cuts at about 70% for TTS, about 85% for Realtime, and up to 95% for ASR.
Dreamina offers 90% off the first month of Dreamina Basic
Dreamina AI says the first month of Dreamina Basic is 90% off and lists the price as $1.50 per month. The limited offer is available for 17 days.
Seedance 2.5 Draft Mode is available on Pika and the Pika API Club
Draft clips can be generated for as low as 10 cents per second and then finalized in high quality.
Artificial Analysis puts Claude Opus 5.5 (max) at $5.98 per Intelligence Index task
The estimate is close to $5.86 for Opus 5 (max). Higher token use is offset by a 20% base-price cut and a further reduction in cache-read pricing to $0.20.
Artificial Analysis says GPT-6 Sol and Luna halve predecessor costs
Artificial Analysis says GPT-6 Sol and Luna score similarly to their predecessors on its Intelligence Index at about half the cost, with the reduction driven by token prices that are roughly 50% lower.
Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Luna and GPT-6 Sol are available in Glean
Glean says Claude Opus 5.5 cuts token costs by 50% versus its predecessor on Glean's own evaluations, and that GPT-6 Luna and GPT-6 Sol each cost 50% less than their predecessors.
OpenAI Developers improves prompt caching for GPT-6 in the API
Higher default cache-hit rates let more GPT-6 input tokens receive cached-input discounts of up to 90%. OpenAI Developers says the change helps agents run faster and cost less.
Sam Altman says GPT-6 Sol and Luna are half the price per token
Sam Altman says GPT-6 Sol and Luna are big improvements over 5.6-family predecessors in intelligence, alignment, work output, coding and computer use, at half the price per token and even less per task. He says that on per-task pricing he does not think anything in the market is competitive.
Polymarket says OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Sol and Luna
According to Polymarket, OpenAI claims task costs are up to 93% cheaper than Claude Opus 5 in some coding evaluations.