News / #pricing Tag Pricing changes 339 articles archived under #pricing · RSS Sign in to follow arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 28d ago Smarter and Cheaper at Once: Byte-Exact KV-Cache Grafting Turns a Frozen Small Model into a Verified-Knowledge Flywheel arXiv:2607.14431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We report a way to make a frozen small language model both more capable and dramatically cheaper at once, without changing any weights. Verified knowledge is deposited once as a byte-exact key-value (KV) state artifact and later… 10 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 28d ago Smarter and Cheaper at Once: Byte-Exact KV-Cache Grafting Turns a Frozen Small Model into a Verified-Knowledge Flywheel Abstract We report a way to make a frozen small language model both more capable and dramatically cheaper at once, without changing any weights. Verified knowledge is deposited once as a byte-exact key-value (KV) state artifact and later restored, by graft, into a fresh… 17 Latent.Space news-outlet 28d ago [AINews] Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B: the largest open model ever released; Opus 4.8-class at Sonnet 5 pricing a great week for open models continues. 37 Vercel — AI dev-tools 28d ago GLM 5.2 is 35% off via Novita on AI Gateway GLM 5.2 is 35% off on AI Gateway through July 24 when routed through Novita. To get the discounted rate, set the model to zai/glm-5.2 in the AI SDK and route requests through Novita: After July 24, the model stays available at standard provider rates with no markup. Try GLM 5.2… 24 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 28d ago Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence https://www.kimi.com/en Kimi K3 Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342 Points: 1341 # Comments: 827 6 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 29d ago SpaceX slips below its $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after SpaceX went public. 25 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 29d ago SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after SpaceX went public. 35 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 29d ago SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/3a023b95-66c3-41e1-b0ce-df752a499541 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920181 Points: 202 # Comments: 102 33 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1mo ago Speculate with Memory: Lossless Acceleration for LLM Agents arXiv:2607.12236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative execution accelerates LLM agents by using a smaller, cheaper model to predict and pre-launch the next step while the environment is idle. However, existing speculators are stateless and discard all information between… 19 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Big Tech who built their empires on web scraping. Crying "existential threat" over model distillation is peak irony I just don't get it. These big tech companies can illegally scrape the entire internet and gatekeep their better models behind higher prices. So it's natural that people look for affordable options, and there will be providers who apparently distill models from themThe hypocrisy… 27 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Quota Marketplace: Dynamic Pricing for Efficient Allocation of ML Training Resources arXiv:2607.09802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The escalating demand for Machine Learning (ML) training resources in recent years has resulted in a substantial gap between the high demand and the available supply. Efficient allocation of these scarce and expensive resources is… 23 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Optimizing ARDL Models for Retail Sales Forecasting and Fair Pricing arXiv:2607.09956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pricing food products to balance profitability with consumer welfare is a central challenge for retailers. Dynamic pricing is widely used to maximize revenue, yet most pricing models optimize business objectives while overlooking… 26 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago I just don't get it. These big tech companies can illegally scrape the entire internet and gatekeep their better models behind higher prices. So it's natural that people look for affordable options, and there will be providers who apparently distill models from them. The irony? They cry existential threat when they were the ones who made us feel that way first.   submitted by   /u/Blue-Sea2255 [link]   [comments] 33 Don't Worry About the Vase community 1mo ago Better Call Sol The Workhorse OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol is finally here, along with the cheaper Terra and Luna. 31 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans. 38 Vercel — AI dev-tools 1mo ago Open-weight models surge to 29% of volume, price per token flattens AI Gateway Production Index — July 2026 Every month, AI Gateway routes tens of trillions of tokens between production applications and AI labs, giving us a view of what AI usage actually looks like in today’s enterprise. We publish that view here. See the Production Index… 13 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago DaDaDa: A Dataset for Data Pricing in Data Marketplaces arXiv:2607.08785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-quality data drives machine learning advances across industries. Recognizing the value of data, data transactions are increasingly common, giving rise to many data marketplaces, e.g., AWS Marketplace, Databricks, and Datarade.… 36 Vercel — AI dev-tools 1mo ago Web Analytics and Speed Insights are now more cost-efficient Web Analytics and Speed Insights are now almost 10% more cost-efficient for all Pro and Enterprise teams. Infrastructure and event-processing improvements reduced cost across both products, so page views, referrers, top routes, and Core Web Vitals are now processed more… 18 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 1mo ago Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper Article URL: https://ploy.ai/blog/migrating-a-production-ai-agent-to-gpt-5-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882716 Points: 206 # Comments: 88 17 r/MachineLearning community 1mo ago Obtaining Irregular Learning Curves with HyberBand Tuned ANN model for Price Prediction [P] I have used Hyperband automatic tuning for an ANN model to predict price. After running HyberBand automatic tuning to get the 'best' architecture, I am obtaining a strange Val/Training loss learning curve. I cannot figure out if this is due to an error within the code or just a… 24 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago The U.S. tech industry is increasingly anxious about the rising power and competitive price of open-source AI models from China — and whether the Trump administration will respond with yet another executive order | Politico Politico: Wall Street’s new obsession: Which CEOs have Trump’s ear?: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2026/07/10/wall-streets-new-obsession-which-ceos-have-trumps-ear-00993324   submitted by   /u/Nunki08 [link]   [comments] 29 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago According to DataBricks, pi-coding-agent is ~2x cheaper than CC/Codex, GLM 5.2 on par with Opus 4.8 high https://preview.redd.it/3p60zyf8afch1.png?width=1840&format=png&auto=webp&s=10dcc90945f0db03352239579fca2132d0c90dfa https://www.databricks.com/blog/benchmarking-coding-agents-databricks-multi-million-line-codebase tl;dr pi-coding-agent (bash for everything/minimum tools) is up… 27 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Neuralwatt Pricing will Double From 07/16 - Got This Email Welp, the age of cheap tokens coming to an end. Many here use this service to access GLM 5.2. Looks like only sustainable way moving forward to local LLM.   submitted by   /u/BoogerheadCult [link]   [comments] 26 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Spectral Analysis of Dueling Q-Learning arXiv:2607.08340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Q-learning is a fundamental algorithm in reinforcement learning (RL) for solving discounted Markov decision processes (MDPs) when the transition kernel is unknown. The deep Q-network (DQN) extends Q-learning by using a deep neural… 31 llama.cpp releases dev-tools 1mo ago b9941 Only index by compile times + always multiply/add ( #25445 ) The first one avoids relying on compile to optimize local memory away, and the second is cheaper than issuing control flow statements macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled)… 28 Simon Willison community 1mo ago The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol OpenAI's latest flagship model hit general availability this morning , and comes in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol (from smallest to largest). The new models are priced per 1M input/output tokens as Luna $1/$6, Terra $2.50/$15, Sol $5/$30. For comparison, the Claude Opus… 35 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Help for server quotation with RTX 6000 Pro (France) I would like to make a quotation for a server with RTX 6000 Pro (96 GB). Rackable and tower variants. I do prefer reliable hardware than lowest price. I am looking for suggestions: vendor, model, points to check... Thank you for your help!   submitted by  … 18 Smol AI News news-outlet 1mo ago not much happened today **OpenAI** launched the **GPT-5.6** family including **Sol, Terra, and Luna** models, integrated across **ChatGPT, Codex, and API** with immediate rollout. The release emphasized improved **performance-per-dollar** with pricing matching GPT-5.5 but better capabilities,… 21 Smol AI News news-outlet 1mo ago OpenAI launches GPT 5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna **OpenAI** launched the **GPT-5.6** family with three models: **Sol**, **Terra**, and **Luna**, integrated across **ChatGPT**, **Codex**, and the API. Pricing tiers range from **$1 to $5 per million tokens** with new cache-write pricing and a 90% cache-read discount. The launch… 21 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Now brothers we know why we are so fucked up Samsung chip division's single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined, due to increased memory and storage prices — Samsung passes Nvidia to become most profitable company in the world, notches 19x quarterly increase in profit… 33 r/MachineLearning community 1mo ago Why does the same H100 cost 5x more depending on where you rent it? [D] I kept finding wildly different prices for the same GPU across providers and data centers, so I built a OS CLI that searches live GPU capacity and shows the cheapest available routes npx gpu-price-finder Supports RTX 4090, RTX 5090, L40S, A100, H100 and lets you filter by… 20 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’ Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models. 30 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Mimo & deepseek are really amazing at optimizing ai. Read the the official blog page i linked, it will give amazing insight on how they pulled off this kind of low pricing with 2x - 3x profit margins. For quick look --> https://x.com/i/status/2059618247553745204 Detailed --> https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-v2-5-inference I hope in future we get fable lvl ai at the cost of current DSV4. Thats far more sufficient for like 90% of people. Xai is also pushing for low cost api… 17 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Evaluating Time Series Foundation Models for Electricity Price Forecasting: Contamination Risk, Distributional Shifts, and Covariate Dependence arXiv:2607.02623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time series foundation models (TSFMs) have shown strong zero-shot forecasting performance, but their generalization in covariate-driven, non-stationary settings is underexplored. Electricity price forecasting (EPF) presents a… 12 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Trading Confidence: Comprehensive Uncertainty Estimation in Algorithmic Trading arXiv:2607.02864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful approach in financial trading, enabling agents to learn optimal strategies through direct market interaction. However, financial markets are highly uncertain, with price… 12 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Dynamic Regret for Non-Stationary Linear Bandits via Misspecification Reductions arXiv:2607.02891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many online decision-making problems involve both round-specific feasible actions and drifting reward models: eligible ad impressions, feasible prices, and available treatments can change over time, while user preferences, demand… 34 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Blower 5060 Ti's from Alibaba, good idea? Asking price is 580 USD on Alibaba, maybe stacking a few of these together for a "power-efficient" system is a good idea? They have 8 pin connectors as usual. I'm aware the 3080 20GB exists for 500 USD with 25% more bandwidth, but they require a larger PSU and run hotter also… 37 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents "The reality is, when you're optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance," Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch. 34 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 1mo ago Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper Article URL: https://www.wafer.ai/blog/glm52-amd Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780417 Points: 218 # Comments: 68 11 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 1mo ago The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing Article URL: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/crime-pays-the-egg-bandits-made-a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761229 Points: 230 # Comments: 97 6 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Neural Certificate Pricing for Combinatorial Optimization Problems arXiv:2607.01185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Combinatorial optimization (CO) problems are difficult because certifiable discrete structure induces exponential search. One needs to search over the set exponentially many candidates to certify optimality, however, the structural… 23 r/MachineLearning community 1mo ago [D] Self-Promotion Thread Please post your personal projects, startups, product placements, collaboration needs, blogs etc. Please mention the payment and pricing requirements for products and services. Please do not post link shorteners, link aggregator websites , or auto-subscribe links. -- Any abuse… 17 r/MachineLearning community 1mo ago Spot/interruptible H100 and A100 pricing across RunPod, Vast.ai, and AWS - June 2026 data [D] Following up on the on-demand comparison from a couple weeks back - pulled spot/ interruptible pricing this time since that's where the real savings conversation actually lives for anyone running checkpointed training or batch jobs. Checked: June 2026. Spot/interruptible tier,… 35 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content. 15 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro. 5 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago Tesla V100 16GB local LLMs, single and dual NVLink benchmarks Picked up a couple of Tesla V100-SXM2-16GB modules a while back to run local models and drive Claude Code fully offline, figured the actual numbers and the traps might save someone else the pain. They've come right down in price and the 16GB of HBM2 at ~900 GB/s still holds up… 33 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago When Prices Double in a Week: Forecasting of Agricultural Volatility in Import-Isolated Markets arXiv:2606.29248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vegetable prices in Sri Lanka are highly volatile because the market is largely import-isolated, so supply disruptions quickly drive prices up. This study develops a machine learning framework to forecast such volatility by… 8 Vercel — AI dev-tools 1mo ago Claude Sonnet 5 now available on Vercel AI Gateway Claude Sonnet 5 from Anthropic is now available on AI Gateway . Sonnet 5 improves on Sonnet 4.6 across coding and agentic work, reaching outcomes on many tasks that previously needed an Opus model, at Sonnet pricing. The model is more agentic and follows instructions more… 14 Vercel — AI dev-tools 1mo ago Vercel Agent has updated pricing Vercel Agent pricing is changing. You no longer need to pre-load credits or manage a separate wallet for Vercel Agent. Instead of a $0.30 per-request fee, you now pay a Vercel Token Rate of $0.25 per million tokens, plus provider inference costs at the underlying token rate. The… 6 r/MachineLearning community 1mo ago Price elasticity model [R] Need to build a ml model to find the price elasticity at the product group level first the given price and discount. What are features I need have and which model used in the industry for these type of use cases . I have used regression and random regression to predict the qty… 30 Page 3 of 7 · 339 articles ← Newer Older →
