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The Token Ledger Digest – 2026-07-15

The Token Ledger Digest – 2026-07-15

Most cost‑impacting change

  • NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra – Completion price rose from $2.20 / 1M to $3.60 / 1M (+$1.40); prompt price rose from $0.50 / 1M to $0.60 / 1M (+$0.10). Who should care: Users running long‑form generation workloads on this model will see ~64% higher per‑token cost.

Other notable price moves

Model Change Old ($/1M) New ($/1M) Δ ($/1M)
Z.ai: GLM 5 Prompt ↑ 0.60 0.95 +0.35
Completion ↑ 1.92 3.15 +1.23
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5 Prompt ↑ 0.38 0.57 +0.19
Completion ↑ 2.03 2.85 +0.83
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B Prompt ↑ 0.39 0.45 +0.07
Completion ↑ 2.45 3.00 +0.55
Tencent: Hy3 Prompt ↑ 0.14 0.20 +0.06
Completion ↑ 0.58 0.80 +0.22
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 Prompt ↑ 0.24 0.30 +0.06
Completion ↑ 0.96 1.20 +0.24
Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B Prompt ↑ 0.29 0.45 +0.16
Completion ↑ 2.40 2.70 +0.30
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 Prompt ↓ 0.93 0.89 –0.04
Completion ↓ 2.92 2.79 –0.13
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B Prompt ↑ 0.06 0.10 +0.04
Completion ↓ 0.33 0.30 –0.03

Removed model

  • Sao10K: Llama 3.1 70B Hanami x1 – Deleted; previously $3.00 / 1M for both prompt and completion. Who should care: Anyone relying on this specific 70B variant must migrate to an alternative.

Cheapest models today (per‑million‑token rates)

  1. inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash – $0.01 prompt / $0.03 completion
  2. IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro – $0.017 prompt / $0.112 completion
  3. Mistral: Mistral Nemo – $0.02 prompt / $0.04 completion

Total models tracked: 343.


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