Weekly Build Brief — 26 October 2026
Dated changes in the LLM API catalogue and GPU rental floor between 2026-10-25 and 2026-10-26: 5 price move(s), 5 GPU rate move(s), 4 added / 4 removed model(s). Read from source APIs, with the monthly bill for a stated workload.
Window: 2026-10-25 → 2026-10-26 (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-v4-flash-0731 |
input | $0.0422 | $0.4400 | +942.7% up |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 |
output | $0.1694 | $1.3200 | +679.2% up |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro |
input | $0.2088 | $0.9553 | +357.5% up |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro |
output | $0.4176 | $1.9105 | +357.5% up |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash |
output | $0.1820 | $0.4500 | +147.3% 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-v4-flash-0731 |
$7.44 | $15.40 | +7.96 $/month |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 |
$9.65 | $15.40 | +5.75 $/month |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro |
$13.73 | $28.66 | +14.93 $/month |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro |
$21.19 | $28.66 | +7.46 $/month |
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash |
$1.91 | $3.25 | +1.34 $/month |
Live rates: /api-pricing/.
GPU rental floor
| GPU | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q |
$0.8022 | $0.2831 | -64.7% |
RTX PRO 6000 WS |
$1.5552 | $0.7622 | -51.0% |
RTX 5070 Ti |
$0.2037 | $0.1007 | -50.6% |
RTX PRO 6000 S |
$1.0689 | $1.5400 | +44.1% |
RTX 4070S Ti |
$0.1084 | $0.0689 | -36.4% |
Lowest observed hourly price per card: /gpu-pricing/.
Catalogue entries and exits
| Movement | Model |
|---|---|
| added | Kijai/WanVideo_comfy_fp8_scaled |
| added | Qdrant/multilingual-e5-large-onnx |
| added | agentionai/Qwen3.8-27B-AP-GGUF |
| added | trl-internal-testing/tiny-Qwen3ForCausalLM |
| removed | Serveurperso/MiniMax-Music3-GGUF |
| removed | google/flan-t5-base |
| removed | nvidia/Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4 |
| removed | unitary/unbiased-toxic-roberta |
4 added, 4 removed between the two snapshots.
Published this week
| Date | Pipeline | Identifier |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-19 | openrouter_catalogue | ~deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-latest |
| 2026-10-19 | openrouter_catalogue | deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash |
| 2026-10-19 | openrouter_catalogue | deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash |
| 2026-10-19 | openrouter_catalogue | ~deepseek/deepseek-flash-latest |
| 2026-10-19 | openrouter_catalogue | ~z-ai/glm-latest |
| 2026-10-19 | openrouter_catalogue | z-ai/glm-5.3 |
| 2026-10-19 | openrouter_catalogue | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 |
| 2026-10-19 | openrouter_catalogue | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 |
| 2026-10-19 | openrouter_catalogue | qwen/qwen3.5-27b |
| 2026-10-19 | openrouter_catalogue | qwen/qwen3.5-27b |
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 2026-10-25 and 2026-10-26 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 2026-10-26 05:55 (local time).
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