Tag: pricing
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AI Is Quietly Killing Off the Cheap Plane Ticket
Remember the trick of booking odd hours or clearing your cookies to find a cheaper flight. Bloomberg reports that trick is quietly dying, and AI is the reason why. Airlines used to price seats with fairly blunt rules. Something like, bump the fare 20 percent once a flight hits a quarter full. A human analyst…
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Chinese AI Models Just Won the Price War
Chinese AI models now handle between 30 and 46 percent of the tokens US companies are sending through public developer platforms. That is according to CNBC’s analysis of OpenRouter traffic, the biggest router of API calls to AI models. What changed: GLM-5.2, a Chinese model, landed on Vercel in late June and saw 27x growth…
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Anthropic Just Made Fable 5 Expensive on Purpose
Fable 5 went from subscription-included to credits-only starting July 8. Pro subscribers now pay $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. That is the most expensive pricing Anthropic has ever put on a publicly available model. But here is the catch: Anthropic got backlash and extended free access through July 12.…
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Anthropic’s Sonnet 5 Just Changed the Game
Anthropic dropped Claude Sonnet 5 today, and this is the move that changes how AI gets built from here on out. Here is what happened: Sonnet 5 is a capable, agentic model that can run autonomously, make plans, use tools like browsers and terminals, and do the work that used to require Opus or larger…
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Fable 5 Just Got Expensive
Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s newest and most capable model, is no longer free on your subscription today. Starting June 23rd, if you want to use it on Claude Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise, you pay extra. The cost: $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. That is double what you pay…
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GitHub Copilot’s Cost Just Became Terrifying
On June 1, GitHub switched Copilot to token-based billing. Developers who paid a flat $29 or $39 per month are now seeing bills hit $750, $1,500, even $3,000 for heavy agentic workloads. This is what happens when you price AI by the token: usage explodes, costs explode faster. Heavy users got hit first. Agentic workflows,…
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GitHub Copilot’s Cost Just Became Terrifying
On June 1, GitHub switched Copilot to token-based billing. Developers who paid a flat $29 or $39 per month are now seeing bills hit $750, $1,500, even $3,000 for heavy agentic workloads. This is what happens when you price AI by the token: usage explodes, costs explode faster. Heavy users got hit first. Agentic workflows,…