Token Ledger Digest – 2026-08-10

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Token Ledger Digest – 2026-08-10

The most cost‑impacting change today is a price increase for Z.ai GLM 5.2 completion tokens (+$2.20 per 1M tokens).

Price changes

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
- Prompt: $0.09 → $0.08 / 1M (−$0.01)
- Completion: unchanged $0.18 / 1M
- Who should care: Teams running prompt‑heavy workloads see a slight saving.
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
- Prompt: $0.07 → $0.76 / 1M (+$0.69)
- Completion: $0.22 → $2.42 / 1M (+$2.20)
- Who should care: Any application using this model for completion‑heavy tasks (chat, code generation) will see costs rise sharply.
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
- Prompt: $0.58 → $0.95 / 1M (+$0.37)
- Completion: $2.44 → $4.00 / 1M (+$1.56)
- Who should care: Users generating long outputs will notice a notable cost increase.
Z.ai: GLM 5.1
- Prompt: $0.95 → $1.40 / 1M (+$0.45)
- Completion: $2.99 → $4.40 / 1M (+$1.41)
- Who should care: Both prompt and completion costs rise; affects all usage patterns.
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B
- Prompt: $0.07 → $0.12 / 1M (+$0.05)
- Completion: $0.34 → $0.40 / 1M (+$0.06)
- Who should care: Minor uptick; relevant for budget‑sensitive deployments.
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super
- Prompt: $0.30 → $0.09 / 1M (−$0.22)
- Completion: $0.90 → $0.40 / 1M (−$0.50)
- Who should care: Significant reduction benefits both prompt‑ and completion‑heavy jobs.
Qwen: Qwen3 14B
- Prompt: $0.23 → $0.12 / 1M (−$0.11)
- Completion: $0.91 → $0.24 / 1M (−$0.67)
- Who should care: Large savings, especially for completion‑intensive workloads.
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick
- Prompt: unchanged $0.20 / 1M
- Completion: $0.80 → $0.70 / 1M (−$0.10)
- Who should care: Small completion cost cut.
MythoMax 13B
- Prompt: $0.08 → $0.06 / 1M (−$0.02)
- Completion: $0.11 → $0.06 / 1M (−$0.05)
- Who should care: Minor reductions across the board.