Weekly Build Brief — 12 October 2026
Dated changes in the LLM API catalogue and GPU rental floor between 2026-10-11 and 2026-10-12: 5 price move(s), 3 GPU rate move(s), 6 added / 5 removed model(s). Read from source APIs, with the monthly bill for a stated workload.
Window: 2026-10-11 → 2026-10-12 (two consecutive dated snapshots of the catalogue, read from the source APIs — never written by a model).
What moved in the API catalogue
| Model | Per 1M tokens | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
~deepseek/deepseek-flash-latest |
input | $0.0001 | $0.0330 | +32900.0% up |
~deepseek/deepseek-pro-latest |
output | $0.6574 | $5.0000 | +660.6% up |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro |
input | $0.2088 | $0.9483 | +354.2% up |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro |
output | $0.4176 | $1.8966 | +354.2% up |
~z-ai/glm-flash-latest |
output | $0.5000 | $1.2000 | +140.0% up |
Full dated log: /llm-costs/changes/.
What it costs on a fixed workload
Reference workload: 20M input tokens + 5M output tokens per month, priced with the observed rates above — recompute it yourself, the rates are the only input.
| Model | Before | After | Monthly difference |
|---|---|---|---|
~deepseek/deepseek-flash-latest |
$4.95 | $5.61 | +0.66 $/month |
~deepseek/deepseek-pro-latest |
$7.49 | $29.20 | +21.71 $/month |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro |
$13.66 | $28.45 | +14.79 $/month |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro |
$21.05 | $28.45 | +7.39 $/month |
~z-ai/glm-flash-latest |
$3.14 | $6.64 | +3.50 $/month |
Live rates: /api-pricing/.
GPU rental floor
| GPU | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
Tesla V100 |
$0.0176 | $0.0422 | +139.8% |
RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q |
$1.0037 | $1.2815 | +27.7% |
RTX 5060 Ti |
$0.0826 | $0.0745 | -9.8% |
Lowest observed hourly price per card: /gpu-pricing/.
Catalogue entries and exits
| Movement | Model |
|---|---|
| added | DeepBeepMeep/Wan2.1 |
| added | SC117/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-GGUF |
| added | comodoro/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-cs-250 |
| added | openai/whisper-tiny |
| added | trl-internal-testing/tiny-Qwen3ForCausalLM |
| added | unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4-Fast |
| removed | MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7 |
| removed | Xenova/whisper-tiny |
| removed | answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1 |
| removed | cross-encoder/ms-marco-electra-base |
| removed | usyd-community/vitpose-plus-base |
6 added, 5 removed between the two snapshots.
Published this week
| Date | Pipeline | Identifier |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | openrouter_catalogue | deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash |
| 2026-10-05 | openrouter_catalogue | deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash |
| 2026-10-05 | openrouter_catalogue | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash |
| 2026-10-05 | openrouter_catalogue | ~z-ai/glm-latest |
| 2026-10-05 | openrouter_catalogue | z-ai/glm-5.2 |
| 2026-10-05 | openrouter_catalogue | z-ai/glm-5.2 |
| 2026-10-05 | openrouter_catalogue | qwen/qwen3.6-27b |
| 2026-10-05 | openrouter_catalogue | qwen/qwen3.8-27b |
| 2026-10-05 | openrouter_catalogue | ~moonshotai/kimi-latest |
| 2026-10-05 | openrouter_catalogue | moonshotai/kimi-k3 |
Every entry is a page on this site; the registry that produces it is data/content_registry.json.
How this page is built
- Prices, GPU rates and catalogue entries are read from the source APIs and stored as dated snapshots (
data/history/pricing/,data/history/gpu/,data/history/models/). - This page compares 2026-10-11 and 2026-10-12 and shows only what crossed the materiality thresholds (5% and $0.02 per 1M tokens for prices, 5% for GPU rates).
- No language model writes this page. The only arithmetic is the monthly bill above, from the rates shown.
- Nothing to report means no page: a week without a material change is not published.
- Observed 2026-10-12 05:55 (local time).
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