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Free Gemini users drop to Flash-Lite on 9 October, while Google's Singapore page still sells AI Plus with Pro
Pro now starts at AI Pro, about four times the AI Plus price. Google's help page and its sales page disagree on what Plus buys.
Cloudflare AI Search starts billing on 1 November, and semantic queries cost 7.5 times full-text
AI Search left beta on 1 October with native image embeddings and OCR. The free tier now splits its 2,000 monthly queries into 1,000 semantic and 1,000 full-text, a change worth at most $0.75 a month.
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 on 28 September at unchanged Sonnet 5 prices
Anthropic says Sonnet 5.5 runs more than 30% faster and costs up to 30% less per task. Anthropic also calls it the first Sonnet with cyber safeguards and classifiers that prevent reasoning extraction.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna in API, Codex, and ChatGPT Work on 22 September
Mid-tier GPT-6 models under Astra. Sol $2 input and $10 output per MTok, Luna $0.10 and $0.50; Free and Go get Luna on desktop only; not yet in Chat.
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5.5 on 22 September with Fable-class claims at lower list prices
First Claude release since the lab's pace-the-frontier call. API id claude-opus-5-5; $4/$20 per MTok and $0.20 cache reads; AWS, GCP, and Azure named.
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 at $5 input and $25 output with cheaper fast mode
28 May 2026. Same list price as Opus 4.7. Fast mode $10 input and $50 output. System card: not past Mythos Preview on RSP. Prompt-injection tests vs 4.7 are mixed.