OpenAI is testing an undocumented fallback tier called Luna Reserve for its Codex coding agent, which switches eligible Plus and Pro users to a separate gpt-reserve model after their advanced-model al…
GLM-5.3, a coding model from Zhipu AI, scored 100% in Reinvently's 28-task Ed-o-meter benchmark on August 23, 2026, with a total test cost of $0.28, and completed a root of an Amazon Fire HD 10 in one…
DeepSeek V4-Flash costs about 98% less than OpenAI's GPT-5.5 for heavy workloads, with monthly costs dropping to $12.60 versus around $210 for the same 30M/30M token workload. DeepSeek's pricing is $0…
OpenAI cut prices on its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model on August 21, reducing input tokens from $5 to $4 per million and output tokens from $30 to $20 per million, a 33% reduction on output, effective th…
OpenAI has cut API and credit pricing for its GPT-5.6 Sol model by over 20% for three months, with input dropping from $5.00 to $4.00 per million tokens, cached input from $0.50 to $0.40, and output f…
OpenAI cut API and purchased-credit pricing for its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model by up to one-third for three months, effective August 21 through at least November 21. The price for output tokens droppe…
OpenAI has introduced promotional pricing for its GPT-5.6 series on OpenRouter, offering discounts of up to 50% with prices starting at $0.10 to $2.50 per million input tokens, undercutting Anthropic'…
In a blind comparison, three AI models preferred machine-generated literary passages over works by famous authors more than 90% of the time, with DeepSeek V4 Flash choosing machine text in 94% of deci…
Replit launched Free Mode powered by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna, eliminating per-token billing for users and allowing them to build small agents and prototypes at zero marginal cost. This move breaks the p…
Replit launched Free Mode, a lower-cost setting for its coding agent powered by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna, giving paid Core and Pro subscribers credit-free everyday tasks with five-hour limits and up to 3…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna, positioned as the fastest and most affordable model in the GPT-5.6 family, may power a new Replit Free Mode, signaling a shift toward cost-efficient AI in developer tools. Miche…
Replit has launched Free Mode, powered by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna model, allowing subscribers on the $20/month Core and $100/month Pro tiers to handle lightweight tasks without consuming their AI credit…
DeepSeek raised its V4 Flash API price by 93 percent on August 14, from $0.14 to $0.27 per million input tokens, while OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna's price by 80 percent to $0.20 per million and made it th…
Replit launched Free Mode, a new feature powered by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna model, available to Core and Pro subscribers at $20 and $100 per month, respectively. The feature aims to reduce AI token usag…
Parallel, Exa, and Firecrawl lead the Artificial Analysis Search Index for search APIs, with Parallel winning on quality, Exa on speed and cost, and Firecrawl on free-tier accessibility, according to …
ARK Invest reports that AI inference token prices have fallen from $2.07 to $1.02 per million tokens, a decline of more than 50%, while transaction volumes have surged up to 10x in certain use cases. …
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Luna via its API on July 9, 2026, with vendor-reported HealthBench Professional score of 55.7, HealthBench score of 55.8, HealthBench Hard score of 32, and HealthBench Consensu…
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B, a 27-billion-parameter model, matched OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, outperforming larger rivals while running on everyday hardware. The mo…
Qwen 3.8 27B scored 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching GPT-5.6 Luna and trailing GLM-5.2 (753B) by one point despite being 27 times smaller. The model's performance enables dep…
Users report that OpenAI's ChatGPT has been swearing more frequently since the company switched free users to the GPT-5.6 Luna model earlier this month, with examples including the chatbot using the f…