AI Pricing Digest – 2026-06-19

Most impactful change

• Z.ai: GLM 5.2 – Prompt price ↓ from $1.40 to $1.20 per 1M tokens; completion price ↓ from $4.40 to $4.10 per 1M tokens. Net saving ≈ $0.50 per 1M tokens. Teams with high-volume GLM 5.2 usage see the largest cost reduction today.

Other price changes

• MoonshotAI Kimi Latest – Prompt ↓ $0.68→$0.67 per 1M; completion ↑ $3.41→$3.50 per 1M. Net +$0.08 per 1M.
• Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B – Prompt ↓ $0.15→$0.14 per 1M; completion unchanged $1.00 per 1M. Net –$0.01 per 1M.
• MoonshotAI Kimi K2.6 – Same delta as Kimi Latest (+$0.08 per 1M).

Added models

• Poolside Laguna XS.2 – Prompt $0.10/1M, completion $0.20/1M, context 262k tokens.
• Poolside Laguna M.1 – Prompt $0.20/1M, completion $0.40/1M, context 262k tokens.

Cheapest models today (per 1M tokens)

1. inclusionAI Ling-2.6-flash – prompt $0.01, completion $0.03
2. IBM Granite 4.0 Micro – prompt $0.017, completion $0.112
3. Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct – prompt $0.02, completion $0.03
4. Mistral Nemo – prompt $0.02, completion $0.03
5. Meta Llama 3.2 1B Instruct – prompt $0.027, completion $0.201

Total models tracked: 341.

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