The Token Ledger Digest – 2026-05-16

No meaningful changes today.

Cheapest models (per 1M tokens)

• inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash

  • What changed: —
  • Prompt: $0.01 / 1M Completion: $0.03 / 1M
  • Who should care: Developers seeking the lowest‑cost inference for short‑to‑medium prompts.

• Mistral: Mistral Nemo

  • What changed: —
  • Prompt: $0.02 / 1M Completion: $0.03 / 1M
  • Who should care: Teams needing a balanced low‑cost model with strong multilingual ability.

• Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

  • What changed: —
  • Prompt: $0.02 / 1M Completion: $0.05 / 1M
  • Who should care: Users who want a widely‑available 8B model at minimal expense.

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