The Token Ledger Digest – 2026-09-18

📉 Biggest Cost Impact

• Model: MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
• Change: Prompt price ↓ from $3.00 to $2.10 per 1M tokens; Completion price ↓ from $15.00 to $10.95 per 1M tokens.
• Who should care: Teams running large‑scale completion or long‑context workloads where token volume drives cost.

➕ Added Models

Model	Prompt ($/1M)	Completion ($/1M)	Context
Pareto (unbiased/pareto)	2.50	7.50	262,144
Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free)	0.00	0.00	262,144
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (free)	0.00	0.00	1,048,576

➖ Removed Models

Model	Prompt ($/1M)	Completion ($/1M)	Context
Union Alpha (stealth/union-alpha)	0.00	0.00	262,144
Mistral Large 3 2512 (mistralai/mistral-large-2512)	0.50	1.50	262,144

🔄 Other Price Changes

Model	Prompt Δ ($/1M)	Completion Δ ($/1M)	Note
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	–0.0044	–0.0132	Small downward tweak
DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest	+0.0258	+0.0467	Prompt & completion up
Z.ai GLM 5.2	–0.8375	–2.60	Notable cost cut
OpenAI gpt-oss-120b	+0.113	+0.430	Prompt & completion up
DeepSeek V3	+0.0626	–0.1387	Prompt up, completion down

All per‑token prices have been multiplied by 1,000,000 for readability.

Total models tracked: 445.

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