LLM hosting prices: what changed in August 2026
No price cuts and no rises.
0 price cuts · 0 price rises · 0 models newly sold per token · 0 withdrawn · 0 new GPU instances · 0 new regions
The clouds' own announcements
- Google Cloud: Feature: IAM Unified Access Policies are generally available (GA)
- Google Cloud: Feature: Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and Gemini 3 Pro Image updates
- Google Cloud: Feature: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash is available in Public Preview
- Google Cloud: Feature: CodeMender updates (v0.5.0)
- Google Cloud: Feature: GLM 5.2 is available in Public Preview
- Google Cloud: Feature: xAI's Grok 4.6
- Anthropic: We’ve launched the browser use tool (browser_toolset_20260801), a client toolset for driving a browser that your application hosts.
- Google Cloud: Feature: CodeMender updates (v0.4.0): Model support
- Google Cloud: Feature: AlphaFold 3 is generally available
- Google Cloud: Feature: Gemini 3.7 Flash is generally available
- Anthropic: The introductory pricing for Claude Sonnet 5 ($2 / $10 USD per MTok) is now the standard price: the previously scheduled increase to $3 / $15 USD per MTok on September 1, 2026,…
- Anthropic: We’ve retired the Claude Opus 4.1 model (claude-opus-4-1-20250805).