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pricing: the story so far

3 stories, newest first, each linking to the original reporting.

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Nov 9, 2026
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 parameters, a 1-million-token context window, and image input. It was pretraine…
Nov 9, 2026
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 which the model returns to its $5 / $30 list rate. The same page shows …
Nov 8, 2026
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 November 30, 2026, rising to $4 and $20 from December 1. The Flash models c…

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