https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/ AI model releases, official incidents, price changes and pricing guides. en https://whatdoesaicost.com/guides/ai-api-pricing-explained/https://whatdoesaicost.com/guides/ai-api-pricing-explained/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow AI API pricing works, with dollar examples: tokens, why output costs more, caching and batch discounts, and DeepSeek's peak hours. https://whatdoesaicost.com/guides/ai-image-video-generation-prices/https://whatdoesaicost.com/guides/ai-image-video-generation-prices/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPer-image and per-second prices for GPT-Image, Nano Banana, Imagen 4, FLUX.2, Veo 3.1, Runway and Luma, plus Midjourney plans. Sora's API is gone. https://whatdoesaicost.com/guides/claude-models-explained/https://whatdoesaicost.com/guides/claude-models-explained/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnthropic's Claude lineup in plain English: what each model is for, what it costs through the API, what claude.ai plans include, and Fable vs Mythos. https://whatdoesaicost.com/guides/google-gemini-models-explained/https://whatdoesaicost.com/guides/google-gemini-models-explained/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhich Gemini model to use, what 3.1 Pro and 3.8 Flash cost through the API, the promo price that ends December 31, and what Google AI plans include. https://whatdoesaicost.com/guides/jev-explained/https://whatdoesaicost.com/guides/jev-explained/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat TypeSafe AI's Jev decision model does, its API price ($0.042 per million input tokens, free output), the claims behind the hype and its known weak spots. https://whatdoesaicost.com/guides/openai-gpt-6-vs-gpt-5-6/https://whatdoesaicost.com/guides/openai-gpt-6-vs-gpt-5-6/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna cost, how they compare with GPT-5.6, and which model each ChatGPT plan actually uses. https://whatdoesaicost.com/guides/why-ai-models-feel-dumber/https://whatdoesaicost.com/guides/why-ai-models-feel-dumber/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe documented reasons an AI model gets worse: confirmed bugs, changed defaults, outages and long chats. What providers admitted and how to test it. https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-22-claude-opus-5-5-released/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-22-claude-opus-5-5-released/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-09-22. Official source: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5 https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-22-gpt-6-sol-and-luna-released/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-22-gpt-6-sol-and-luna-released/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-09-22. Official source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/ https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-21-grok-4-7-released/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-21-grok-4-7-released/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-09-21. Official source: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-7 https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-10-deepseek-v4-1-flash-released/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-10-deepseek-v4-1-flash-released/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-09-10. Official source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260910/ https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-03-openai-status-elevated-errors-across-chatgpt-and-codex/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-03-openai-status-elevated-errors-across-chatgpt-and-codex/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTOfficial incident on 2026-09-03. Official source: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M1KWEDH417T2CF44YYHZDFCR https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-03-gpt-6-astra-released/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-03-gpt-6-astra-released/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-09-03. Official source: https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/ https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-02-gemini-3-8-flash-released/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-02-gemini-3-8-flash-released/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-09-02. Official source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/ https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-01-claude-fable-5-1-and-mythos-5-1-released/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-09-01-claude-fable-5-1-and-mythos-5-1-released/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-09-01. Official source: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1 https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-20-anthropic-status-elevated-errors-on-requests-to-multiple-mod/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-20-anthropic-status-elevated-errors-on-requests-to-multiple-mod/Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMTOfficial incident on 2026-08-20. Official source: https://status.claude.com/incidents/c0ncxxm2wd9r https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-19-anthropic-status-degraded-performance-for-claude-opus-5-and/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-19-anthropic-status-degraded-performance-for-claude-opus-5-and/Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMTOfficial incident on 2026-08-19. Official source: https://status.claude.com/incidents/hkcw95k7r0f4 https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-18-anthropic-status-degraded-performance-for-multiple-models/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-18-anthropic-status-degraded-performance-for-multiple-models/Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMTOfficial incident on 2026-08-18. Official source: https://status.claude.com/incidents/q7txxvbsftgq https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-17-anthropic-status-degraded-performance-for-claude-opus-5-and/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-17-anthropic-status-degraded-performance-for-claude-opus-5-and/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMTOfficial incident on 2026-08-17. Official source: https://status.claude.com/incidents/zhk4v3yv1lsf https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-16-anthropic-status-service-disruption-on-claude-services/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-16-anthropic-status-service-disruption-on-claude-services/Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMTOfficial incident on 2026-08-16. Official source: https://status.claude.com/incidents/qt14v73myyy5 https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-14-anthropic-status-elevated-errors-for-claude-fable-5/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-14-anthropic-status-elevated-errors-for-claude-fable-5/Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMTOfficial incident on 2026-08-14. Official source: https://status.claude.com/incidents/hdynq1pc0fn8 https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-13-gemini-3-7-flash-released/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-13-gemini-3-7-flash-released/Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-08-13. Official source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/ https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-13-deepseek-v4-pro-generally-available/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-13-deepseek-v4-pro-generally-available/Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-08-13. Official source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260813/ https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-06-chatgpt-update-improved-gpt-5-6-sol-luna-becomes-default-for/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-08-06-chatgpt-update-improved-gpt-5-6-sol-luna-becomes-default-for/Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-08-06. Official source: https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/ https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-07-30-openai-cuts-gpt-5-6-terra-and-luna-prices/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-07-30-openai-cuts-gpt-5-6-terra-and-luna-prices/Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMTPrice change on 2026-07-30. Official source: https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/ https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-07-24-claude-opus-5-released/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-07-24-claude-opus-5-released/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-07-24. Official source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5 https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-07-21-gemini-3-6-flash-and-3-5-flash-lite-released/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-07-21-gemini-3-6-flash-and-3-5-flash-lite-released/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-07-21. Official source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/ https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-07-09-gpt-5-6-sol-terra-and-luna-generally-available/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-07-09-gpt-5-6-sol-terra-and-luna-generally-available/Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-07-09. Official source: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/ https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-07-01-claude-fable-5-access-restored-globally/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-07-01-claude-fable-5-access-restored-globally/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-07-01. Official source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5 https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-06-30-claude-sonnet-5-released-export-controls-on-fable-5-lifted/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-06-30-claude-sonnet-5-released-export-controls-on-fable-5-lifted/Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-06-30. Official source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5 https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-06-12-anthropic-suspends-fable-5-and-mythos-5-for-all-customers-af/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-06-12-anthropic-suspends-fable-5-and-mythos-5-for-all-customers-af/Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTOfficial incident on 2026-06-12. Official source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-06-09-claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5-released/https://whatdoesaicost.com/news/2026-06-09-claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5-released/Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTRelease on 2026-06-09. Official source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5