2026-06-17 Digest

Most Impactful Change

• NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra – completion price fell from $2.50/1M to $2.20/1M (prompt unchanged at $0.50/1M). Who should care: Teams running long‑form generation workloads where output tokens dominate cost.

Other Price Changes

• MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code – prompt price down $0.75/1M → $0.74/1M (‑$0.01/1M); completion steady at $3.50/1M.
  
  Who should care: Developers sensitive to input token costs for code‑assistant prompts.

• DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash – prompt price down $0.098/1M → $0.090/1M (‑$0.008/1M); completion down $0.196/1M → $0.180/1M (‑$0.016/1M).
  
  Who should care: Users of flash‑mode inference seeking low‑latency, low‑cost completions.

New Model Added

• Z.ai: GLM 5.2 – 1,048,576 token context; prompt $1.40/1M, completion $4.40/1M. Who should care: Applications needing very long context with moderate‑to‑high generation cost.

Cheapest Models Today (per 1M tokens)

1. inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash – prompt $0.01/1M, completion $0.03/1M
2. IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro – prompt $0.017/1M, completion $0.112/1M
3. Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct – prompt $0.02/1M, completion $0.03/1M

Total models tracked: 337.

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