The Token Ledger Digest – 2026-05-23

Price Changes

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

• Prompt price: rose from $0.1794 to $0.325 per 1M tokens (+$0.1456/1M)
• Completion price: rose from $1.07315 to $1.95 per 1M tokens (+$0.87685/1M)
• Who should care: teams running large‑scale generation workloads where completion cost dominates.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash

• Prompt price: rose from $0.12375 to $0.1875 per 1M tokens (+$0.06375/1M)
• Completion price: rose from $0.7425 to $1.125 per 1M tokens (+$0.3825/1M)
• Who should care: latency‑focused apps using Flash variants; cost increase affects both input and output.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash

• Prompt price: fell from $0.112 to $0.10 per 1M tokens (−$0.012/1M)
• Completion price: fell from $0.224 to $0.20 per 1M tokens (−$0.024/1M)
• Who should care: cost‑sensitive deployments can save a few cents per million tokens.

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