The AI Model Pricing and Value War
aarthir · x · 2026-07-10
Grok 4.5's pricing has been revealed at $2/$6 per million tokens, and Meta has introduced a paid tier for Muse Spark, aggressively entering a price war. Meanwhile, GLM 5.2, featuring open weights and an MIT license, reportedly beats GPT-5.5 on SWE-bench Pro at roughly 1/6 the cost.
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