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Token Ledger Digest – 2026-09-27

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Token Ledger Digest – 2026-09-27

Biggest cost impact: Z.ai: GLM 5.3 – Prompt price jumped from $0.38/M to $1.40/M (+$1.02/M); Completion price rose from $1.19/M to $4.40/M (+$3.21/M). Who should care: Anyone using GLM 5.3 for generation‑heavy workloads; costs increase >4×.

Other notable changes:

  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 – Prompt ↓ $0.264→$0.245/M (-$0.019/M); Completion ↑ $0.792→$3.50/M (+$2.71/M). Who should care: Completion‑intensive users see higher per‑token cost.
  • Z.ai: GLM Latest – Prompt ↓ $0.379→$0.274/M (-$0.106/M); Completion ↑ $1.19→$2.57/M (+$1.38/M). Who should care: Balanced users notice higher completion expense.
  • MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest – Prompt ↓ $1.03→$0.988/M (-$0.043/M); Completion ↓ $9.04→$5.53/M (-$3.51/M). Who should care: Heavy completion users save ~39%.
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash – Prompt ↓ $0.30→$0.035/M (-$0.265/M); Completion ↓ $1.20→$0.29/M (-$0.91/M). Who should care: Large savings on both sides.
  • Z.ai: GLM Flash Latest / GLM 5.3 Flash – Prompt ↑ $0.04→$0.045/M (+$0.005/M); Completion ↓ $0.50→$0.14/M (-$0.36/M). Who should care: Completion cost cut ~72%.
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek Pro Latest – Prompt ↓ $0.249→$0.244/M (-$0.005/M); Completion ↓ $0.748→$0.733/M (-$0.016/M). Who should care: Minor savings.
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp – Prompt ↓ $0.22→$0.216/M (-$0.004/M); Completion ↓ $0.66→$0.647/M (-$0.013/M). Who should care: Tiny savings.
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 – Prompt ↓ $0.047→$0.0469/M (-$0.0001/M); Completion ↓ $0.094→$0.0938/M (-$0.0003/M). Who should care: Negligible change.
  • MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 – Prompt ↓ $0.30→$0.21/M (-$0.09/M); Completion ↓ $1.20→$0.84/M (-$0.36/M). Who should care: Moderate savings.

Cheapest models today (per‑million tokens):

  • IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro – Prompt $0.017/M, Completion $0.112/M
  • OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b – Prompt $0.018/M, Completion $0.09/M
  • Mistral: Mistral Nemo – Prompt $0.019/M, Completion $0.03/M

No models were added or removed; 11 price adjustments were recorded. Total models tracked: 458.

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