News / #pricing Tag Pricing changes 500 articles archived under #pricing · RSS Sign in to follow r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago A lot of good M5 Max options available at Apple Refurbished Just a heads-up. After Apple's price hike announcement, they added a bunch of top-of-the-line 14" M5 Pro/Max options to their refurbished website. If you got discouraged by the price hike, check out their refurbished store.   submitted by   /u/Hanthunius [link]  … 13 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago Sell ddr5 for vram? Hi, I have 768gb ddr5 6400 ecc ram, given current ram prices should I sell half and buy rtx 6000 pros? Edit: currently have an epyc 9255 and 2 x rtx 6000 pro max q but could add another three Blackwell potentially then and run something like glm 5.2 in q4 at faster speeds then… 6 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago Finally.. my rig is maxed out Got all the parts before the crazy price increase except for the rtx pro 5k! Was saving up to order rtx pro 6000 in US and i did, but wanted to join nvidia inception program for the discount. It was around $8.5k during that time, less 1k if I succeeded. It took around 3 months… 7 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago How to distill my own models? I've been using cloud provided models for agentic theorem proving a lot, and cost is becoming an issue for me. I have funding for hardware cost but I can't use them for LLM credits which put me in a unique situation where it might be cheaper to self-host models instead of paying… 29 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago Took the plunge! (Minisforum MS-S1 Max) With Apple prices entering the stratosphere, the recent Fable gov't rug pull, and the inevitable closed-model price increases, I decided to pick up a (lightly) used Minisforum MS-S1 Max with 128GB of memory. Comes with a 10-day return and a 3-month warranty. Paid the local equiv… 30 Simon Willison community 4mo ago Quoting OpenAI We're beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable model. Terra has competitive performance to GPT‑5.5 while being 2x cheaper and Luna brings strong capability at our lowest… 34 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 4mo ago Early Bird pricing ends tonight for TechCrunch Founder Summit Save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026. Early Bird pricing ends today, at 11:59 p.m. PT, after which rates increase. Register now. 11 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4mo ago Embedding Foundation Model Predictions in Discrete-Choice Models with Structural Guarantees arXiv:2606.26432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular foundation models achieve strong accuracy on choice prediction tasks, but their predictions often violate the economic logic those tasks require: raising a price can increase predicted demand, implied willingness-to-pay… 36 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4mo ago AIGP: An LLM-Based Framework for Long-Term Value Alignment in E-Commerce Pricing arXiv:2606.26787v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional dynamic pricing models in large-scale e-commerce suffer from limited interpretability, poor utilization of unstructured information, and misalignment with long-term business objectives such as cumulative Gross… 26 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4mo ago State Representation Matters in Deep Reinforcement Learning: Application to Energy Trading arXiv:2606.27032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Energy trading decisions depend not only on current market prices, but also on expected future market conditions, and operational constraints. This makes the state representation given to a reinforcement learning agent an important… 5 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago Prices of graphic cards are going crazy, should I buy a second card though? A few months ago, I bought a RX 7900 XTX 24g to start toying with local LLM, at 900€ new. Little I knew that now I want to add a second card to my rig, but prices have gone insane! Adding a new 7900 XTX would cost me 1200€ as new now, used price is around 900€ now, and the last… 38 r/MachineLearning community 4mo ago [R] Compiling Agentic Workflows into LLM Weights: Near-Frontier Quality at Two Orders of Magnitude Less Cost Token-based billing is causing my company to reevaluate small language models. I came across this paper that shows SLM supervised fine-tuning on traces from orchestration of frontier models can be nearly as performant and much cheaper. Has any tried this in the real world?  … 34 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago rtx 6000 pro owners, do you regret? I found the last dealership in my area that has rtx 6000 pro available, i already wanted to buy it 6 months ago when it was around $8k, now prices increased to $13k ish. Regardless the price, are you happy with it? I assume you are using qwen3.6 27b, is it worth it? Please share… 9 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago New Apple Memory Prices https://preview.redd.it/00o5xtaznf9h1.png?width=696&format=png&auto=webp&s=60a3306ea86a9b0d1f58c435b7dbb0a42761a415 Apple raised the prices across the product line this morning:… 33 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 4mo ago Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/25/apple-price-increases-mac-ipa... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672732 Points: 362 # Comments: 565 7 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4mo ago MacroLens: A Multi-Task Benchmark for Contextual Financial Reasoning under Macroeconomic Scenarios arXiv:2606.24950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial decision-making is contextual: forecasting prices, valuing companies, and assessing event exposure weigh price history, accounting fundamentals, macroeconomic regime, and contemporaneous text. A benchmark over these four… 25 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago Locked Dell quote for 6x RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q at $8,960 — expires tonight. What would you do? Building an inference cluster to run GLM 5.2 locally. Got a Dell quote locked at $8,959.99/unit for 6x RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q (300W). List price just jumped to $15,999 yesterday. Quote expires in ~3 hours and I can't swing all 6 right now. I have a second quote for 2 units… 36 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago MINISFORUM DEG1 Oculink eGPU Dock Refurbished - $59 I got one of these refurbished units last year. I have nothing but good things to say about it. It works great. It has heft to it to keep the GPU secure. And unlike some cheaper Oculink docks, it has redrivers for signal integrity.   submitted by   /u/fallingdowndizzyvr… 20 r/MachineLearning community 4mo ago I compiled LLM inference pricing across 7 providers — the caching numbers are surprising(spreadsheet included) [R] I've been comparing GPU/LLM providers for a side project and ended up with way too many browser tabs and spreadsheets. So I decided to pull the public pricing data into one sheet and compare it side by side. A quick disclaimer: this is not benchmark data . I didn't run latency… 32 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4mo ago Task Decomposition for Efficient Annotation arXiv:2606.24734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-quality annotations of structured representations are expensive to collect over large corpora. Manual annotation of structure is laborious, and model-based annotation, although cheaper to generate, requires expensive… 24 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago I want to add a second 7900XTX, question about pcie2/3/4 I've got a 7900XTX in my old gaming PC, now I want more vram and if I stay on one GPU I can only reasonably get 32GB and that just doesn't sound good enough. Using two slots, 48GB sounds way better and is much cheaper. I think 48GB is the minimum I want to have after going to… 26 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago Openrouter model prices implying heavier quantization? Theres been a lot of talk about quiet quantization of models and what access to guaranteed model quality would look like. I’ve been trying to sanity check the economics of running large open models, and I’m having trouble making the numbers work. Take GLM-5.2 as an example. Even… 18 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago Chinese Hackers Latest Masterpiece with NVIDIA They reverse-engineered the Tesla v100's pinout definition, soldered it onto a half height PCB, then naming it Tesla v100 v4. Price (with 3 years warranty): 16G version: 1499 rmb (220 usd) 32G version: 3999 rmb (590 usd) The hacker's op:… 10 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago been tracking EU DDR5 data for 25 days: Prices are dropping, and the DE vs. NL gap is wild (good news for local LLM builders in EU) hey again! been tracking DDR5 prices across 4 EU countries (DE, NL, ES, BE) for the past month. some findings relevant to local LLM builders: prices are falling: G.Skill DDR5 Aegis 2x16GB 6000: -28% in 25 days (€579 → €419) Kingston FURY Beast RGB 2x16GB 6000: -26% (€499 → €369)… 37 Stratechery (Ben Thompson) community 4mo ago Apple Price Increases, Apple Intelligence and the E.U. Apple is (finally) raising prices, but they're not shipping Siri AI to the E.U. 9 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago Do you think dedicated hardware for running local LLMs will become affordable anytime soon? Models like qwen 27b dense have already proved to be useful coding/general purpose assistants, but issue is still with hardware even the entry level hardware is relatively expensive, would we be getting hardware specifically built for inference for consumers at affordable price… 6 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago What happens when they stop subsidizing LLM subscriptions? We are literally burning through VC money like crazy with our coding subscriptions. I read the $200 Anthropic sub gets you $8000 worth of API calls. It's obvious that this doesn't hold for very long but what happens when they raise prices? The reason to keep the prices low for… 24 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago The economics of AI are starting to favor open models For the last couple of years, the assumption was pretty simple: Want the smartest model? Pay for a closed API. Want something cheaper? Accept a capability hit. Looking at recent model releases, that tradeoff is starting to break down. The most interesting part of the chart isn't… 15 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 4mo ago The Price of Anarchy in Disaggregated Inference Abstract Disaggregated inference architectures separate prefill and decode phases across distinct GPU pools, and a game-theoretic analysis characterizes how GPU saturation affects system performance through regime transitions and payoff structure changes, enabling an adaptive… 25 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4mo ago Credibility-Weighted Pricing of Autonomous Vehicle Liability Under Operational Design Domain Shift arXiv:2606.17451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated Driving System deployments create a foundational ratemaking challenge: sparse experience, shifting operational design domains, and non-stationary risk across software releases. We propose a hierarchical Bayesian… 22 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4mo ago QueryMarket: Cost-Aware Online Active Learning in Data Markets arXiv:2606.17805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data acquisition is a major bottleneck for learning in real-time streams: analysts must decide on the fly which labels to purchase while respecting a rolling budget. However, existing online active learning rarely unifies pricing,… 35 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4mo ago PIVOT: Bridging Black-Scholes Implied-Volatility and Price Objectives via Differentiable J\"ackel Operator arXiv:2606.17065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern option-learning systems operate in two coordinates: price space, where markets quote and no-arbitrage constraints are most naturally enforced, and implied volatility (IV) space, where volatility surfaces are smoothed,… 13 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 4mo ago Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity Article URL: https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-of Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557079 Points: 209 # Comments: 80 20 The Information — AI news-outlet 4mo ago Index Startup Ornn Launches Anthropic, OpenAI Token Benchmarks Ornn, a startup that tracks the cost of computing power for artificial intelligence, has launched a service to track the price of tokens produced by the leading AI labs. The new benchmark comes as AI firms’ customers and financial backers search for better ways to track major AI… 9 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4mo ago {\alpha}-Fair Insurance Pricing: A Fairness Continuum arXiv:2606.14898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fairness in insurance pricing remains a long-standing and deeply debated puzzle. On one hand, insurers, driven by profitability considerations, set premiums that differentiate across individual risks to achieve actuarial fairness.… 16 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4mo ago Repeated Bilateral Trade: The Quest for Fairness arXiv:2606.15369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study repeated bilateral trade from a fairness perspective. At each round, a fresh seller-buyer pair arrives, and the platform posts a price before observing the traders' valuations. Trade occurs only if both agents accept the… 34 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago Cheapest hardware for Qwen 3.6: both 27B and 35B-A3B - "Qwen 3.6/3.5 27b > Qwen 3.6/3.5 35b > Gemma4 31b > Qwen 3.5 9b > Gemma4 12b > Gemma4 26b", people say - "Qwen 3.6 for coding & Agentic, Gemma4 for human sounding text", people say ​ So I have been eyeing the RTX 3090 24 GB (or sometimes its cheaper Chinese companion… 30 r/LocalLLaMA community 4mo ago Finally - 4xRTX 5060TI nvtop showing clocks and PCIe speed while running gpu_burn I wrote a while ago about my plans to put together a quad 5060ti 16gb based system after finding them nicely discounted. Everything got delayed due to issues with CPU seating (damn re-used stock cooler with plastic push… 32 The Information — AI news-outlet 4mo ago Qualcomm in Talks to Buy Tenstorrent to Expand AI Chip Capabilities Qualcomm has been in talks to buy Tenstorrent, a startup that designs chips for AI, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. The two companies have discussed a price between at least $8 billion and $10 billion, the person said, which would be a significant… 11 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 4mo ago Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x A few months after raising prices ~30%, Hetzner has increased bare metal pricing again, this time by 3-4x: AX102: €124 -> €454 AX162 (256GB): €244 -> €844 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542064 Points: 251 # Comments: 169 28 The Information — AI news-outlet 5mo ago Salesforce to Acquire Customer AI Agent Fin for $3.6 Billion Salesforce has agreed to buy Fin, a startup that develops customer agents formerly known as Intercom, for $3.6 billion, as the software giant hopes to win new businesses from enterprises to adopt its own AI offering. The sale price is a big premium to Fin’s last valuation of $2… 18 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 5mo ago Hetzner Price Adjustment https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/standardization-and-price-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540844 Points: 256 # Comments: 380 34 r/LocalLLaMA community 5mo ago I got tired of juggling OpenRouter + Artificial Analysis + Design Arena tabs to pick a model, so I put them in one filterable table So every time I pick a model for a feature or random use-case I have I end up having like 12 tabs open — usually OpenRouter for price and context, Artificial Analysis for benchmarks, Design Arena for the UI/frontend Elo if thats relevant, a status/model page for throughput or… 34 The Information — AI news-outlet 5mo ago Fox to Buy Roku for $22 Billion The Murdoch family’s Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion in cash and stock, or $160 a share, giving Roku shareholders an exit at the highest price at which the stock has traded since the 2020-2022 Covid-fueled surge. In recent years Roku has traded mostly below $100 a share.… 21 arXiv — Machine Learning research 5mo ago High-Frequency Pricing at Scale for E-Commerce arXiv:2606.13741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents the design, development, and implementation of a specialized forecast-then-optimize algorithmic pricing tool for sales campaigns in fashion e-commerce. Sales events present unique challenges for pricing… 20 arXiv — Machine Learning research 5mo ago A Longitudinal Attribute-Conditioned Neural Network for Modeling Health-State Transition Probabilities in Temporally Irregular Data: The LANTERN Framework arXiv:2606.13880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate estimation of long-term care transition probabilities is central to disability insurance pricing, reserving, and solvency assessment. Classical actuarial multi-state models commonly rely on Markov, semi-Markov, or… 32 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5mo ago Creative Integration: A Decidable Criterion of Creativity arXiv:2606.13977v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: "Integrative" solutions are widely praised but rarely defined: we lack an operational way to tell a genuine integration -- one that makes the world cheaper to describe -- from a tidy re-description. Building on the lineage that… 35 r/MachineLearning community 5mo ago Quant firms at ICML 2026 [D] I noted that in ICML 2026, quant firms are flocking and sponsoring as Diamond sponsors. Any reason? Source: https://icml.cc/sponsors/sponsors-list?year=2026at   submitted by   /u/Intrepid_Discount_67 [link]   [comments] 4 r/LocalLLaMA community 5mo ago I am losing my mind with FOMO and need some sanity checking about model capabilities The constant onslaught of new models and drops and releases and hardware price increases and civitai bans and now the ITAR restrictions I am becoming fixated on preparing my local data centre that I cannot afford to purchase or power. I recall when GPT 3.5 dropped thinking to… 28 r/LocalLLaMA community 5mo ago GLM 5.2 is deployed in GLM Coding Plan. API and MIT weights in a week. Voting and benchmarks on X. The model now supports a 1M context window and two thinking modes: max and high. z.ai recommends using max for coding. Vote on X What should we prioritize most? Longer context window MIT-licensed open weights No price increase Other links: GLM 5.2 announcement LLM Benchmark… 32 Page 9 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer Older →
