pricing: the story so far
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Thinking Machines ships Inkling 2 Small: 594B-parameter MoE, 17B active, weights promised under Apache 2.0
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling 2 Small on November 5, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion total and 17 billion active parameter…

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol discount ends November 30; the real price ladder is now GPT-6.1 at $2 / $10
OpenAI's pricing page confirms that promotional pricing on GPT-5.6 Sol ($4 input / $20 output per million tokens) runs only until November 30, after w…

Google's Gemini 4 Argon launch pricing expires December 1, doubling to $4 / $20
Google's official Gemini API pricing page now lists Gemini 4 Argon at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens only through Novem…
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