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This matrix compares the seven model providers behind every model in the Model Selection guide, provider by provider, so the vendor choice is as visible as the model choice; prices below are as of 2026-11-08.

Provider choice is a bundle decision, list price, cache discount, batch policy, context flatness, weights, and where your subscription does and does not transfer, and the challengers win that bundle on every axis except subscriptions.

Legend: ✓ supported, ✗ not supported, ~ partial or conditional, ? not verified. Each column links to the provider’s canonical pricing page; every cell traces to the guide or to a source cited in its references.

The matrix
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Provider Alibaba (Qwen) Anthropic (Claude) DeepSeek Google (Gemini) Moonshot AI (Kimi) OpenAI (GPT) Zhipu (GLM)
Flagship model Qwen3.8-Max, $2 / $6 Claude Fable 5.1, $10 / $50 DeepSeek V4 Pro, $1.32 / $3.96 peak, the Flash routing cancelled, rates continue Gemini 4 Argon, $2 / $10 launch rate through November 30, then $4 / $20 Kimi K3.1 Pro, $2 / $10, released 2026-10-23 (K3 stays listed at $3 / $15; OpenRouter’s floors split again as of 2026-11-08, the input leg to Wafer’s re-priced fast row at $0.167 / $16.00 with cache reads at $0.166 and the output leg holding on Relace’s fp4 row at $0.1824 / $9.3388 with cache reads at $0.18, Chutes’ mxfp4 row still at $1.85 / $9.50 without either leg, the aggregator listing holding at $0.192 / $16.00, the roster narrowing to 29) GPT-6 Astra, $10 / $50 GLM-5.3, $1.40 / $4.40
Workhorse model Qwen3.8-Max doubles as the workhorse Claude Sonnet 5.5, $2 / $10 deepseek-flash (V4.1-Flash), $0.30 / $1.20 peak Gemini 4 Argon doubles as the workhorse at the launch rate; Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, $2 / $12, stays listed K3.1 Pro doubles as the workhorse at $2 / $10; kimi-k2.7-code holds the coding slot at $0.95 / $4.00 list (host floor $0.60 / $3.00 on CoreWeave’s int4 row, held at the 2026-11-08 read) on a dated lease, the K2 series retires by end of December 2026 gpt-6.1-sol, $2 / $10 GLM-5.3 covers the class at $1.40 / $4.40
Cheap model Qwen3.8-Flash, $0.15 / $0.47 Claude Haiku 5.5, $0.10 / $0.50 under 100K prompts, $0.50 / $2.50 past deepseek-flash doubles as the cheap tier, $0.15 / $0.60 off-peak Flash-Lite $0.25 / $1.50, 3.6 Flash $0.75 intro k2.7-code doubles as the cheap tier until the K2 retirement gpt-6-luna, $0.10 / $0.50 GLM-5.3-Flash, $0.15 / $0.50, GLM-4.7-Flash free
Coding-specialized model ? none in this guide (the open Coder family is separate) ✗ none, the general lineup carries coding ✗ none in the guide ✗ none in the guide ✓ kimi-k2.7-code, retiring with the K2 series by end of December 2026 ✓ gpt-5.3-codex, $1.75 / $14 ✗ none in the guide
Cached input discount ~ model tables name the discount, the billing note prices hits at one tenth ✓ one tenth, Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 at one twentieth, the Fable pair at one fortieth ✓ about one fiftieth on Flash, the deepest ~ about one tenth, Gemini 4 Argon at one twentieth ($0.10) ✓ one tenth on K3 and K3.1 Pro, one fifth on k2.7-code ✓ about one tenth ✓ about one fifth
Long-context policy ✓ 1M flat ~ 1M flat from Claude 4.6 onward, Haiku 5.5 repriced past a 100K prompt ✓ 1M flat, 384K max output ~ Gemini 3.1 Pro doubles beyond 200K, Gemini 4 Argon flat 1M ~ K3 and K3.1 Pro flat 1M, k2.7-code 256K ~ doubles past thresholds ✓ 1M flat
Batch or time discounts ~ batch half price on Max ✓ batch half price ~ off-peak half price instead of batch ✓ batch half price ~ batch at 60% of standard on K3 and K3.1 Pro ✓ batch half price ? not stated
Live pricing windows ~ 1M-token free quota for new accounts, 90 days ~ Sonnet 5’s planned increase was cancelled ~ off-peak is standing policy; the 2026-09-14 Flash routing was cancelled, V4 Pro rates continue; Search and Fetch bill $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests each under a standing pricing section on the page, the free-through-October wording removed five days past the stated 2026-11-01 start ~ Flash intro rate ends 2026-12-31; Argon’s launch rate doubles 2026-12-01 ~ K3.1 Pro HighSpeed at $4 / $20, k2.7-code HighSpeed at $1.90 / $8.00; the K2 series retires by end of December 2026 ~ Sol promo until 2026-11-30, extended from 2026-11-21 ✓ none; the 50% promo ended 2026-09-09 into the $0.15 / $0.50 list
Weights ✓ open weights (27B and Flash-Next) ✗ closed ✓ open weights ✗ closed ✓ open weights (K3.1 Pro, K3, K2.7) ✗ closed ✓ open weights
Subscription includes an agent ? none verified ✓ Claude Code from Pro $20 to Max 20x $200 ✗ API and BYOK only ~ the Antigravity platform is free ~ Kimi OAuth reuse via Kimi Code, now under a rolling 5-hour rate window ✓ Codex from ChatGPT Free tier up ~ coding plans from $18/month
BYOK harness fit ~ OpenAI-compatible, rides OpenRouter or any compatible endpoint ~ subscription does not transfer to third-party harnesses ✓ native OpenCode provider, plus an Anthropic-format endpoint ? not verified here ✓ native OpenCode provider ~ API key works everywhere, the ChatGPT subscription now also signs into OpenCode directly; on OpenRouter the -pro GPT ids bill at their base id’s rate while spending far more reasoning tokens, a same-rate, more-tokens cost trap (as of 2026-10-23) ✓ native OpenCode provider

Reading the matrix
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I read this table as a bundle scorecard rather than a price list, because the rows move together in ways the model-level table hides. The big three monetize closed frontier weights plus subscriptions, and the four challengers monetize cheap tokens plus open weights, with almost no overlap in which rows they win. On the price rows the challengers own the floor, and Moonshot’s K3.1 Pro now matches the big-three workhorse rate exactly at $2 / $10, the first challenger flagship to stop undercutting it, while Zhipu’s free GLM-4.7-Flash still has no big-three analogue at any price. On the policy rows the field is closer than list prices suggest, and this is the part I check before switching: DeepSeek’s cache discount is the deepest at about one fiftieth on Flash, Alibaba’s model tables name a discount and its billing note prices hits at one tenth, and batch is half price at the big three and Qwen, 60 percent of standard at Moonshot, and still unverified at Zhipu. Long context splits cleanly by flatness: Anthropic (except Haiku 5.5’s prompt-length repricing past 100K), DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot K3, and Zhipu keep 1M pricing flat, while OpenAI and Google double past thresholds, which decides whole-repository prompting before any model-quality question. The weights row is the quiet differentiator: open weights from Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot, and Zhipu mean a private deployment path the closed big three do not offer at all. The subscription row runs the other way: only OpenAI and Anthropic ship a first-party agent on subscription, and Anthropic’s is the one that explicitly does not transfer to third-party harnesses.

Choosing between providers
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  • Default workhorse loop: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google price identically at the tier, so pick by harness fit and let the challenger prices below pressure that default yearly.
  • Price-floor BYOK loops: DeepSeek and Zhipu, with Alibaba close behind at flagship quality for $6 out.
  • Flat 1M context: Anthropic above the cheap tier, DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot’s K3 line (K3 and K3.1 Pro), and Zhipu, the vendors that keep whole-repository reads predictable.
  • Coding-specialized spend: Moonshot’s k2.7-code (a dated lease, the K2 series retires by end of December 2026) or OpenAI’s gpt-5.3-codex, the only two columns with a model built for the job.
  • Weights you can host: Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot, or Zhipu, and none of the big three at any price.
  • Subscription-first teams: OpenAI or Anthropic, and read the transfer row before assuming the subscription follows your harness.

Changes
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  • 2026-09-08 - Created on owner request with seven provider columns sorted alphabetically as a companion to the model selection guide.
  • 2026-09-08 - Moved Zhipu’s long-context cell to 1M flat on models.dev evidence, widened the flat-1M club to five, and added the models.dev reference.
  • 2026-09-09 - Updated the Moonshot workhorse and pricing-window cells and fixed the Zhipu cached-price prose contradiction.
  • 2026-09-10 - Moved the DeepSeek workhorse cell to deepseek-flash and updated the Zhipu cells as the promo resolved to list.
  • 2026-09-12 - Updated the DeepSeek cells for the routing cancellation and gave Moonshot’s flagship cell the OpenRouter price with the platform lag.
  • 2026-09-16 - Updated the Moonshot workhorse cell for OpenRouter’s kimi-k2.7-code cut to $3.21 and moved its cache discount to one quarter.
  • 2026-09-18 - Updated the Moonshot flagship cell for OpenRouter’s kimi-k3 cut to $2.10 / $10.95.
  • 2026-09-20 - Updated the Moonshot flagship cell again for OpenRouter’s kimi-k3 cut to $1.70 / $8.50 with cache hits at $0.17, and moved its cache-discount cell from about one ninth to one tenth.
  • 2026-09-24 - Removed the verification preamble line on owner request.
  • 2026-09-25 - Re-grounded the Moonshot flagship and workhorse cells on Moonshot’s official list prices ($3/$15 and $0.95/$4.00) after the endpoints API showed the earlier “OpenRouter price with platform lag” readings were third-party host floors, and moved the OpenAI workhorse and cheap cells to the 2026-09-22 GPT-6 Sol and Luna releases.
  • 2026-09-27 - Refreshed against all seven pricing pages: noted the new Claude Opus 5.5 tier in the cache-discount cell, moved the Kimi K3 host floor to $0.88 / $4.90, and flagged gpt-5.6-terra’s removal from OpenAI’s pricing page in the workhorse cell.
  • 2026-09-29 - Synced with the guide’s refresh: the Anthropic workhorse cell moved to the 2026-09-28 Claude Sonnet 5.5 at the same $2 / $10, the gpt-5.6-terra removal note dropped from the OpenAI workhorse cell (it is listed again), and the Kimi K3 host floor moved to $0.40 / $10.00.
  • 2026-10-02 - Synced with the guide’s refresh: the OpenAI workhorse cell moved to the 2026-09-29 gpt-6.1-sol at the same $2 / $10 with cache hits at $0.10, all seven pricing pages re-verified with no other vendor moves, and the Moonshot host-floor spot readings updated (K3 $0.38 / $10.00, k2.7-code $0.67 / $3.35).
  • 2026-10-02 - Moved the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter host floor from $0.38 / $10.00 on Relace to $1.39 / $13.00 on InferenceNet; the k2.7-code floor host (Inceptron, $0.67 / $3.35) re-verified unchanged, and no other vendor cell moved.
  • 2026-10-03 - Moved the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter host floor again, from $1.39 / $13.00 on InferenceNet to $0.98 / $13.00 on Relace; Moonshot’s official $3 / $15 endpoint, the k2.7-code floor (Inceptron, $0.67 / $3.35), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against all seven pricing pages.
  • 2026-10-04 - Synced with the guide’s refresh: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter host floor moved from $0.98 / $13.00 on Relace to $0.40 / $13.00, with InferenceNet at $0.72 / $13.00; Moonshot’s official $3 / $15 (its pricing page now serves its tables through a JS shell, so the read came from the same URL’s markdown render plus its official endpoint) and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against all seven pricing pages, OpenRouter, and models.dev.
  • 2026-10-06 - Synced with the guide’s refresh: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter host floor moved again, from $0.40 / $13.00 to $0.96 / $13.00 on Relace with cache reads at $0.45, and Wafer sitting at $0.97 / $14.00; Moonshot’s official $3 / $15 endpoint (its pricing page read through the markdown render), the k2.7-code floor (Inceptron, $0.67 / $3.35), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against all seven pricing pages, OpenRouter, and models.dev.
  • 2026-10-06 - Moved the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter host floor a sixth time in six days, from $0.96 / $13.00 to $0.66 / $13.00 on Relace (cache reads $0.30), with InferenceNet and Wafer at $0.83 / $14.00 and the aggregator listing at $0.83 / $14.00, and recorded Kimi Code’s own rolling 5-hour rate window in the Moonshot subscription cell per its membership docs; Moonshot’s official $3 / $15 endpoint, the k2.7-code floor (Inceptron, $0.67 / $3.35), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged this run.
  • 2026-10-07 - Synced with the guide’s refresh: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter host floor moved a seventh time in seven days, from $0.66 / $13.00 to $0.61 / $13.00 on Relace with cache reads at $0.45, and the Alibaba cache-discount cell corrected, the billing page’s context-cache note prices hits at one tenth of input where the cell had said the rate was unpublished; Moonshot’s official $3 / $15 endpoint, the k2.7-code floor (Inceptron, $0.67 / $3.35), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against all seven pricing pages, OpenRouter, and models.dev.
  • 2026-10-10 - Synced with the guide’s refresh: the Claude cheap cell moved to the 2026-10-07 Haiku 5.5 ($0.10 / $0.50 under 100K prompts) with the Anthropic long-context cell and the flat-1M recommendation noting its prompt-length repricing, and the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter host floor moved an eighth time in eight days, from $0.61 / $13.00 on Relace to $0.37 / $14.89 on Wafer (cache reads $0.30); Moonshot’s official $3 / $15 endpoint, the k2.7-code floor (Inceptron, $0.67 / $3.35), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against all seven pricing pages, OpenRouter, and models.dev.
  • 2026-10-11 - Synced with the guide’s refresh: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter host floor moved a ninth time in nine days, from $0.37 / $14.89 on Wafer to $0.45 / $16.50 on Wafer (cache reads $0.30), with InferenceNet at $0.73 / $10.00 and the aggregator listing at $0.73 / $10.00, and the gpt-5.6-terra and gpt-5.6-luna cells’ off-the-page state flipped back to listed at launch prices on OpenAI’s pricing page; Moonshot’s official $3 / $15 endpoint, the k2.7-code floor (Inceptron, $0.67 / $3.35), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against all seven pricing pages, OpenRouter, and models.dev.
  • 2026-10-13 - Moved the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter host floor from $0.45 / $16.50 on Wafer to $0.73 / $13.50 on InferenceNet (cache reads $0.55), with Wafer’s cheap endpoint at $0.78 / $24.00 (cache reads $0.30) and the aggregator listing at $0.73 / $15.00; moved the Anthropic cache-discount cell’s Sonnet 5.5 into the one-twentieth group per the pricing page’s 0.05x multiplier footnote, and corrected the OpenAI BYOK cell, OpenCode’s provider docs now sign ChatGPT subscriptions in directly; Moonshot’s official $3 / $15 endpoint, the k2.7-code floor (Inceptron, $0.67 / $3.35), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against all seven pricing pages, OpenRouter, and models.dev.
  • 2026-10-13 - Synced with the guide’s refresh: the Google flagship and workhorse cells moved to the same-day-launched Gemini 4 Argon ($2 / $10 launch rate through November 30, then $4 / $20 per the pricing page), its cache-discount cell noting the one-twentieth hit and its windows cell the December 1 doubling, and the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter host floor moved from $0.73 / $13.50 to $0.73 / $10.00 on InferenceNet; Moonshot’s official $3 / $15 endpoint, the k2.7-code floor (Inceptron, $0.67 / $3.35), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against all seven pricing pages, OpenRouter, and models.dev.
  • 2026-10-16 - Synced with the guide’s refresh: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter floor moved to $0.29 / $28.00 by input on Wafer with the aggregator listing at $0.304 / $11.936 (cache reads $0.21), and the intro gained its as-of clause; Moonshot’s official $3 / $15 endpoint, the k2.7-code floor (Inceptron, $0.67 / $3.35), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against all seven pricing pages, OpenRouter, and models.dev.
  • 2026-10-17 - Synced with the guide’s refresh: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter floor moved to $0.27 / $14.2307 by input on Relace with the output floor at $0.504 / $8.10 on Sail Research’s fp4 endpoint and the aggregator listing holding at $0.304 / $11.936 (cache reads $0.21); Moonshot’s official $3 / $15 endpoint, the k2.7-code floor (Inceptron, $0.67 / $3.35), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against all seven pricing pages, OpenRouter, and models.dev.
  • 2026-10-18 - Synced with the guide’s refresh: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter floor moved to $0.27 / $14.00 by input on Relace (the output leg down from $14.2307) with the aggregator listing holding at $0.304 / $11.936 (cache reads $0.21) and the output floor unchanged at $0.504 / $8.10 on Sail Research’s fp4 endpoint; Moonshot’s official $3 / $15 endpoint, the k2.7-code floor (Inceptron, $0.67 / $3.35), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against all seven pricing pages, OpenRouter, and models.dev.
  • 2026-10-19 - Synced with the guide’s refresh: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter floor moved to $0.238 / $16.00 by input on Wafer, the output floor collapsed to $0.80 / $3.00 on Relace after its wholesale reprice from $0.27 / $14.00, and the aggregator listing’s input leg dropped to $0.239 / $11.936 (cache reads $0.21); Moonshot’s official $3 / $15 endpoint, the k2.7-code floor (Inceptron, $0.67 / $3.35), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against all seven pricing pages, OpenRouter, and models.dev.
  • 2026-10-21 - Delta-pass price check: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter output floor moved from $0.80 / $3.00 on Relace (that endpoint re-priced to $0.30 / $12.00) to $0.36 / $11.90 on Wafer’s second endpoint, with the input floor holding on Wafer at $0.238 / $16.00, the aggregator listing holding at $0.239 / $11.936 (cache reads $0.21), Sail Research’s output leg down to $5.50, and the endpoints roster widening from 26 to 28; the two daily-churn anchors held (kimi-k2.7-code’s host floor at $0.67 / $3.35 on Inceptron, the kimi-k3 listing at $0.239 / $11.936), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against all seven pricing pages, OpenRouter, and models.dev.
  • 2026-10-23 - Added the OpenRouter -pro GPT-id cost trap to the OpenAI BYOK cell: the -pro ids are provider-side serving tiers that bill at their base id’s per-token rate while spending far more reasoning tokens (verified id-for-id against OpenRouter’s models API, from gpt-5.6-luna-pro to gpt-6.1-sol-pro); the OpenAI pricing page re-fetched the same day with every OpenAI cell unchanged, the K3 floors held at the 2026-10-21 readings (listing $0.239 / $11.936 on InferenceNet, input $0.238 / $16.00 and output $0.36 / $11.90 on Wafer’s endpoints), and the endpoints roster widened from 28 to 29 with a Makora fp4 row at $0.65 / $15.00 not previously recorded.
  • 2026-10-25 - Moved the Moonshot flagship cell to K3.1 Pro (released 2026-10-23, $2 / $10 with cache reads at $0.20), the first challenger flagship priced at the big-three workhorse rate, with K3’s OpenRouter floors at their 2026-10-25 readings (input $0.19 / $8.94 on Relace, output $1.20 / $5.50 on Sail Research, the listing at $0.239 / $10.80, roster 29); the K2-series retirement (closed to new users 2026-10-31, retirement by end of December 2026) stamped across the workhorse, cheap, coding-specialized, and windows cells, and the sweep line in Reading the matrix rewritten since K3.1 Pro now matches rather than undercuts the big-three workhorse rate; Moonshot’s official endpoint ($3 / $15 for K3, $0.95 / $4.00 for k2.7-code), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against all seven pricing pages, OpenRouter, and models.dev.
  • 2026-10-28 - Synced with the guide’s refresh: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter floors moved (input to $0.169 / $20.00 on Wafer, output to $0.17 / $8.099 on Relace’s fp4 endpoint, the aggregator listing to $0.15 / $20.00 with cache reads at $0.14) and the workhorse cell’s kimi-k2.7-code host floor was cut from $0.67 / $3.35 to $0.56 / $3.10 on Inceptron’s int4 row; the endpoints roster widened from 29 to 30; Moonshot’s official endpoint ($3 / $15 for K3, $0.95 / $4.00 for k2.7-code), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against all seven pricing pages, OpenRouter, and models.dev.
  • 2026-10-29 - Delta-pass price check: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter readings moved (the floor to $0.182 / $9.34 on one Relace kimi-k3-20260715 endpoint holding both legs, the aggregator listing to $0.192 / $15.00 with cache reads at $0.182, the roster steady at 30) while the workhorse cell’s kimi-k2.7-code host floor held at $0.56 / $3.10; Moonshot’s official endpoint ($3 / $15 for K3, $0.95 / $4.00 for k2.7-code), and every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against the pricing pages whose last reading predated this week (Anthropic, Google, and Alibaba re-fetched this run, OpenAI read 2026-10-28) plus OpenRouter.
  • 2026-10-31 - All seven provider pricing pages re-fetched with the OpenAI cells holding (gpt-6.1-terra confirmed listed in the standard table at $1 / $5 with the $0.05 cache read, Astra at $10 / $50 with the $1.00 cache read, gpt-5.6-terra and gpt-5.6-luna still listed, Sol’s promo still stated through 2026-11-21); the Moonshot batch cell moved from not stated to 60% of standard on K3 and K3.1 Pro per the pricing page’s new batch statement, DeepSeek’s windows cell gained the Search and Fetch per-request billing starting 2026-11-01, and the Kimi floors moved on OpenRouter (the K3 floor to $0.1495 / $7.15 on Sail Research’s fp4 endpoint with the aggregator listing holding at $0.192 / $15.00, the kimi-k2.7-code floor to $0.60 / $3.00 on CoreWeave’s new int4 row with Inceptron re-priced to $0.60 / $3.50); every other cell re-verified unchanged.
  • 2026-11-01 - Delta-pass price check: the Kimi floors moved on OpenRouter (the kimi-k3 input floor to a new Wafer fast row at $0.149 / $22.00 while the output floor stayed on Sail Research’s fp4 row at $0.1495 / $7.15, Relace’s former-floor row re-priced to $0.1824 / $9.34, Makora down to $0.50 / $13.00, the roster narrowing to 29, and the aggregator listing holding at $0.192 / $15.00) while the kimi-k2.7-code floor held at $0.60 / $3.00 on CoreWeave’s int4 row; all seven provider pricing pages re-fetched with every other cell unchanged, and the OpenAI page still lists gpt-6.1-terra at $1 / $5, Astra at $10 / $50, gpt-5.6-terra and gpt-5.6-luna at launch prices, and Sol’s promo through 2026-11-21.
  • 2026-11-03 - Synced with the guide’s seven-page sweep: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter floors moved (the Wafer fast row’s input floor re-priced up from $0.149 to $0.152 / $22.00, the output floor leaving Sail Research’s re-priced fp4 rows for Wafer’s us row at $0.276 / $9.60, Relace’s fp4 row now the cheapest single row at $0.1529 / $9.7471, the aggregator listing holding at $0.192 / $15.00, the roster back at 30) while the workhorse cell’s kimi-k2.7-code floor held at $0.60 / $3.00; all seven provider pricing pages re-fetched with every other cell unchanged, and the DeepSeek Search-and-Fetch billing sentence stands with the page still carrying its free-of-charge wording past the stated 2026-11-01 start.
  • 2026-11-04 - Delta-pass price check on the daily-churn anchors: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter readings moved again (the floors now on Relace’s re-priced fp4 row at $0.19 / $8.94, again the cheapest single row, after Wafer’s fast row re-priced up to $0.233 / $22.00 and its us row re-priced its output to $11.50, the aggregator listing re-priced from $0.192 / $15.00 to $0.20 / $16.00 with cache reads at $0.19, the roster steady at 30) while the workhorse cell’s kimi-k2.7-code floor held at $0.60 / $3.00 on CoreWeave’s int4 row; every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against the pricing pages whose latest full sweep ran 2026-11-03, with the DeepSeek page still carrying its free-of-charge Search-and-Fetch wording four days past the stated start.
  • 2026-11-05 - Delta-pass price check on the daily-churn anchors: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter readings split their floors across hosts (the input floor back on Wafer’s fast row at $0.153 / $22.00 after its re-price down from $0.233, the output floor falling to Chutes’ mxfp4 row at $1.85 / $9.50, Relace’s re-priced fp4 row at $0.1539 / $10.5539 holding neither leg, the aggregator listing re-priced back to $0.192 / $16.00, the roster widening to 31) while the workhorse cell’s kimi-k2.7-code floor held at $0.60 / $3.00 on CoreWeave’s int4 row; the OpenAI windows cell moved to Sol’s promo extension until 2026-11-30 and the DeepSeek windows cell to the standing Search-and-Fetch pricing section that replaced the free-through-October wording; every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against the pricing pages re-fetched this run (Google, Anthropic, Z.ai, and Moonshot with all cells unchanged, the Aliyun billing page again in its Chinese locale with the USD rates corroborated by OpenRouter and models.dev).
  • 2026-11-07 - Delta-pass price check on the daily-churn anchors: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter floors re-converged on Relace’s re-priced fp4 row at $0.1824 / $9.3388 (cache reads $0.18), again the cheapest single row holding both legs, after Wafer’s fast row re-priced up from $0.153 / $22.00 to $0.192 / $16.00 (cache reads $0.182) and Chutes’ mxfp4 row held at $1.85 / $9.50 without either floor, with the aggregator listing holding at $0.192 / $16.00 and the roster narrowing to 30; the workhorse cell’s kimi-k2.7-code floor held at $0.60 / $3.00 on CoreWeave’s int4 row (its aggregator listing’s cache read moved to $0.16 at the same prompt and output rates); every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against the seven pricing pages re-fetched this run, and models.dev’s canonical Weights column read K3.1 Pro Closed this run against Moonshot’s open-weight card and the public Hugging Face release, recorded as a reference disagreement with the weights cell staying grounded on the primaries.
  • 2026-11-08 - Delta-pass price check on the daily-churn anchors: the Moonshot flagship cell’s OpenRouter floors split again (the input leg to Wafer’s re-priced fast row at $0.167 / $16.00 with cache reads at $0.166, the output leg holding on Relace’s fp4 row at $0.1824 / $9.3388 with cache reads at $0.18, Chutes’ mxfp4 row still at $1.85 / $9.50 without either leg, the roster narrowing from 30 to 29) while the aggregator listing held at $0.192 / $16.00 (cache reads $0.182) and the workhorse cell’s kimi-k2.7-code floor held at $0.60 / $3.00 on CoreWeave’s int4 row (its aggregator listing holding at $0.60 / $3.50 with the cache read at $0.16); every other vendor cell re-verified unchanged against the pricing pages re-fetched this run.

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References
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  • https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing - GPT-5.6 and GPT-6 family prices including the 2026-09-22 GPT-6 Sol and Luna, the 2026-09-29 gpt-6.1-sol, batch discount, long-context doubling, gpt-5.6-cyber added under Daybreak; gpt-5.6-terra and gpt-5.6-luna still listed at launch prices at this fetch, with OpenRouter serving both at the same rates, and gpt-6.1-terra listed in the page’s standard table at $1 / $5 with a $0.05 cache read, re-confirmed at the 2026-10-31 fetch alongside Astra’s $10 / $50 with the $1.00 cache read; Sol’s promo end extended from 2026-11-21 to November 30, 2026 at the 2026-11-05 fetch (fetched 2026-10-22, all cells unchanged; re-fetched 2026-10-23, 2026-10-25, 2026-10-28, 2026-10-31, 2026-11-01, 2026-11-03, 2026-11-04, and again 2026-11-05, all cells unchanged each time except the Sol promo end date, gpt-5.6-terra and gpt-5.6-luna still listed at launch prices; re-fetched again 2026-11-07 with every cell unchanged, the promo still stated through November 30, and both models still listed at launch prices; re-fetched again 2026-11-08 with every cell unchanged, the promo still stated through November 30, and both models still listed at launch prices)
  • https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing - Claude lineup prices including Sonnet 5.5 ($2/$10, 2026-09-28), Opus 5.5 ($4/$20, 5% cache), and Haiku 5.5 ($0.10/$0.50 under 100K prompts, 2026-10-07), cache multipliers, 1M-context policy with the Haiku 5.5 exception (fetched 2026-10-22, all cells unchanged; re-fetched 2026-10-25, 2026-10-28, 2026-10-29, 2026-10-31, 2026-11-01, 2026-11-03, 2026-11-04, and again 2026-11-05, all cells unchanged; re-fetched again 2026-11-07, all cells unchanged; re-fetched again 2026-11-08, all cells unchanged)
  • https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/pricing - Gemini 3 family prices, intro windows (the 2026-12-31 end and 2027-01-01 doubling both stated on the page), long-context and batch rates, 3.8 Flash Cyber at $1.50 / $7.50, and Gemini 4 Argon’s launch table ($2 / $10 through November 30, then $4 / $20) (fetched 2026-10-22, all cells unchanged; re-fetched 2026-10-25, 2026-10-28, 2026-10-29, 2026-10-31, 2026-11-01, 2026-11-03, 2026-11-04, and again 2026-11-05, all cells unchanged; re-fetched again 2026-11-07, all cells unchanged with the Argon launch window and December 1 doubling still stated; re-fetched again 2026-11-08, all cells unchanged with the Argon launch window and December 1 doubling still stated, plus the page’s new Gemini 4 footnote scheduling retrievable-usage billing for completions over 32K tokens even on timed-out requests from November 13, 2026)
  • https://help.aliyun.com/zh/model-studio/billing-for-model-studio - Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-Flash official prices, batch half price, context-cache note (explicit-cache hits at one tenth of input, writes at 1.25x), free quota, qwen3.8-max-prime speed variant (fetched 2026-10-22, all cells unchanged; re-fetched 2026-10-25, 2026-10-28, 2026-10-29, 2026-10-31, 2026-11-01, 2026-11-03, 2026-11-04, and again 2026-11-05, unchanged, the 11-04 and 11-05 fetches serving the page’s Chinese locale with the batch and cache terms intact and the USD rates corroborated those days by the OpenRouter listing and models.dev; the 2026-11-07 fetch serving the Chinese locale again with the batch and cache terms intact, the USD rates corroborated by the OpenRouter listing and models.dev; re-fetched 200 on 2026-11-08)
  • https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260910 - the 2026-09-10 V4.1-Flash release and V4 Pro routing announcement behind the DeepSeek column’s workhorse and windows cells (fetched 2026-09-10, routing cancelled per the DeepSeek pricing page fetched 2026-10-22)
  • https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models - aggregator listings for the Qwen pair and the GPT-6 pair, serving gpt-5.6-terra and gpt-5.6-luna at their launch rates and gpt-6.1-terra at $1 / $5 (fetched 2026-10-22; re-fetched 2026-10-23, 2026-10-25, 2026-10-28, 2026-10-29, 2026-10-31, 2026-11-01, and again 2026-11-03, same GPT and Qwen rates with gpt-6-astra-pro billing at the base id’s rate, and the source of the -pro id verification behind the OpenAI BYOK cell, the pro ids re-confirmed at their base ids’ rates on 2026-10-31, 2026-11-01, 2026-11-03, 2026-11-04, and again 2026-11-05; the kimi-k2.7-code listing on this same read moved to $0.60 / $3.50 with the cache read at $0.15 by the 10-31 read and held at the 2026-11-01, 2026-11-03, 2026-11-04, and 2026-11-05 reads, and the kimi-k3 listing re-priced from $0.192 / $15.00 (cache reads $0.182, held 2026-10-29 through 2026-11-03) to $0.20 / $16.00 (cache reads $0.19) on the 2026-11-04 read and back to $0.192 / $16.00 (cache reads $0.182) on the 2026-11-05 read; the 2026-11-07 read held the kimi-k3 listing at $0.192 / $16.00 (cache reads $0.182), moved the kimi-k2.7-code listing’s cache read from $0.15 to $0.16 at its held $0.60 / $3.50 prompt and output rates, and re-confirmed every current-generation -pro id at its base id’s rate; the 2026-11-08 read held both Kimi listings at their 11-07 rates and re-confirmed the -pro set at their base ids’ rates)
  • https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models/moonshotai/kimi-k3/endpoints - per-provider endpoint prices separating Moonshot’s official list prices from third-party host floors; the 2026-11-05 read split the floors across hosts, Wafer’s fast row re-pricing down from $0.233 / $22.00 to $0.153 / $22.00 (cache reads $0.152) and taking the input floor, Relace’s re-priced fp4 row at $0.1539 / $10.5539 (cache reads $0.15) losing the legs it held on 11-04, Wafer’s us row re-pricing its output back down to $9.60, and the output floor falling to Chutes’ mxfp4 row at $1.85 / $9.50 (cache reads $0.185), leaving no single row holding both legs, with the roster widening to 31 endpoints (fetched 2026-10-22; re-fetched 2026-10-23, 2026-10-25, 2026-10-28, 2026-10-29, 2026-10-31, 2026-11-01, 2026-11-03, 2026-11-04, and again 2026-11-05, the floor leaving Relace for Sail Research’s fp4 row on the 10-31 read before Wafer’s fast row split it, the board re-converging on Relace on the 11-04 read, and splitting again on the 11-05 read; the 2026-11-07 read re-converged the board on Relace’s re-priced fp4 row at $0.1824 / $9.3388 (cache reads $0.18) holding both legs while Wafer’s fast row re-priced up to $0.192 / $16.00 and the roster narrowed to 30; the 2026-11-08 read split the floors again, Wafer’s fast row re-pricing down to $0.167 / $16.00 (cache reads $0.166) and taking the input leg while Relace’s fp4 row held the output leg at $0.1824 / $9.3388, with the roster narrowing to 29)
  • https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat-k3 - Moonshot’s K3-series pricing page, whose prose states the batch-at-60%-of-standard term behind the Moonshot batch cell and carries the K2-series retirement notice; its price tables render through a JS shell, so the per-token figures come from the endpoints API and the guide (fetched 2026-10-31, re-fetched 2026-11-01, 2026-11-03, 2026-11-04, and again 2026-11-05, same shell and same statements; re-fetched again 2026-11-07 with the same shell, the same batch term, and the same retirement notice; re-fetched 200 on 2026-11-08)
  • https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/membership.html - Kimi Code’s own rolling 5-hour rate window on top of the shared monthly credit pool, behind the Moonshot subscription cell (fetched 2026-10-13, re-fetched 200 on 2026-10-22, again 2026-10-28, and 200 on 2026-11-08)
  • https://models.dev - the community model list reference: model ids, release dates, and context windows behind the lineup, including the GPT-6 pair’s, Opus 5.5’s, Sonnet 5.5’s, and Haiku 5.5’s release dates, with kimi-k3.1-pro and its HighSpeed sibling released 2026-10-23 and gpt-6.1-terra released 2026-10-26, and the deepseek-flash entry re-stamped at the 2026-10-17 V4.1-Flash-1017 checkpoint (fetched 2026-10-25, 2026-10-28, 2026-10-31, 2026-11-01, 2026-11-03, 2026-11-04, and again 2026-11-05, no new covered-provider releases after the 2026-10-26 terra rung, and the 11-05 fetch marking kimi-k3.1-pro’s weights Open, matching the matrix’s weights cell; the 2026-11-07 fetch still showing no new covered-provider releases but reading kimi-k3.1-pro’s canonical Weights column Closed against Moonshot’s open-weight card and the public Hugging Face release, the disagreement recorded with the weights cell grounded on the primaries; the 2026-11-08 fetch showing no new covered-provider releases and the same Weights disagreement standing)