Token Ledger Digest – 2026-07-14

Added Models

• Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Air V2.5 – New offering. Prompt $0.15/1M, Completion $0.60/1M. Who should care: Teams needing a large‑context (256k) coding assistant at mid‑range cost.
• Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5 – New offering. Prompt $0.74/1M, Completion $2.96/1M. Who should care: Users prioritizing higher throughput and willing to pay premium for the same 256k context.

Removed Models (Free Tier)

• LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free) – Removed.
• LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free) – Removed.
• OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (free) – Removed. Who should care: Anyone relying on zero‑cost experimentation; must migrate to paid alternatives or other free models.

Price Changes

Model	Change	Old Prompt ($/1M)	New Prompt ($/1M)	Old Completion ($/1M)	New Completion ($/1M)	Who should care
Z.ai: GLM 5.2	↓ Completion –$0.0828; slight Prompt ↓ –$0.0018	0.93	0.9282	3.00	2.9172	Cost‑sensitive users of GLM 5.2; savings on long completions.
Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B	↑ Prompt +$0.004; Completion unchanged	0.285	0.289	2.40	2.40	Developers using Qwen3.6 for prompt‑heavy workloads.
DeepSeek: V4 Flash	↑ Prompt +$0.013; ↑ Completion +$0.026	0.077	0.090	0.154	0.18	Teams balancing low‑cost flash inference; modest cost rise.
Google: Gemma 4 31B	↓ Prompt –$0.060; Completion unchanged	0.12	0.06	0.35	0.35	Users of Gemma 4 seeing halved prompt cost.
DeepSeek: V3.1	↑ Prompt +$0.040; ↑ Completion +$0.160	0.21	0.25	0.79	0.95	Heavy‑usage applications; notable increase for completion‑intensive tasks.
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b	↓ Prompt –$0.006; ↓ Completion –$0.030	0.036	0.030	0.18	0.15	Existing users benefit from lower overall cost.

Note: Per‑million‑token prices are derived by multiplying the per‑token rate by 1,000,000 and rounding to five decimal places for readability.

Cheapest models today (for reference: inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash ($0.01/1M prompt, $0.03/1M completion), IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro ($0.017/1M, $0.112/1M), Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct ($0.02/1M, $0.03/1M).

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