The Token Ledger Digest – 2026-07-11

Price Changes

• Z.ai: GLM 5.2 – Prompt price ↓ 52% (0.84 → 0.406 $/1M); Completion price ↓ 52% (2.64 → 1.276 $/1M). Who should care: Developers using GLM 5.2 for long‑form generation see per‑token cost cut roughly in half.
• MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code – Prompt unchanged (0.72 $/1M); Completion price ↑ 0.3% (3.49 → 3.50 $/1M). Who should care: Negligible impact; mainly relevant for cost‑sensitive completion workloads.
• DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash – Prompt price ↓ 14% (0.09 → 0.077 $/1M); Completion price ↓ 14% (0.18 → 0.154 $/1M). Who should care: Users of V4 Flash benefit from modest savings on both prompt and completion.

Model Removals

• Arcee AI: Trinity Mini – Removed. Was 0.045 $/1M prompt, 0.15 $/1M completion. Who should care: Anyone relying on this model must migrate to an alternative.
• Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct – Removed. Was 0.14 $/1M prompt and completion. Who should care: Users of this 8B instruct variant need to switch to other Llama 3 versions or comparable models.

Cheapest Models Today (reference)

1. inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash – 0.0.0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0.01 $/1M prompt, 0.03 $/1M completion
2. IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro – 0.017 $/1M prompt, 0.112 $/1M completion
3. Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct – 0.02 $/1M prompt, 0.03 $/1M completion

Total models tracked: 345.

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