Token Ledger Digest – 2026-08-11

Most Cost‑Impact Change

• Model: Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
• What changed: price increase
• Numbers: prompt $0.39 → $0.50 /1M tokens, completion $2.34 → $3.60 /1M tokens (total +$1.37 /1M)
• Who should care: teams running high‑volume completion workloads on this large model; budget forecasts need upward adjustment.

Other Price Changes

• DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro – prompt $0.435 → $0.632 /1M, completion $0.870 → $1.263 /1M (+$0.59 /1M).
• Z.ai: GLM 4.6 – prompt $0.50 → $0.55 /1M, completion $2.00 → $2.20 /1M (+$0.25 /1M).
• Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct – prompt unchanged $0.07 /1M, completion $0.27 → $0.28 /1M (+$0.01 /1M).

Added Models

• Sakana: Sakana Namazu – prompt $0.95 /1M, completion $4.00 /1M, context 262k.
• Upstage: Solar Pro 4 – prompt $0.03 /1M, completion $0.12 /1M, context 524k.
• Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B – prompt $0.35 /1M, completion $1.50 /1M, context 131k.

Removed Model

• OpenAI: GPT-5.3 Chat – prompt $1.75 /1M, completion $14.00 /1M, context 128k.

Developers using the removed model should migrate to alternatives; those evaluating new entrants can compare the above rates against their workload profiles.

Total models tracked: 402.

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