AI Pricing

OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast on ChatGPT Work, Codex, and API

• October 8, 2026
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OpenAI has rolled out Ultrafast mode for GPT-6.1 Sol in the API, Codex and ChatGPT Work, promising up to 8x faster generation than Sol Standard. It costs $12 per million input tokens and $60 per million output, six times Standard, and in ChatGPT it is limited to Pro $500 and eligible Enterprise and Edu plans. We cover the measured speed, every price tier, the 8x allowance burn, EU residency, the Cerebras question and when the premium pays.

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Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5 and Reduces Sonnet 5.5 Caching Costs

• October 8, 2026
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Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest and fastest small model, at up to 90% lower per-token prices than Haiku 4.5, and halved the cache read price on Sonnet 5.5. We explain the two price tiers, the tokenizer catch, the benchmarks and early customer results, the arithmetic behind the 20% Sonnet saving, the new monthly API credits for Max and Team plans, and the breaking changes developers must handle before switching.

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OpenAI’s New Agent Is a Shot at Meta — but Can It Compete With Free?

• October 1, 2026
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OpenAI’s Dots agents launched at DevDay as a direct challenge to Meta’s Muse, but Dots needs a $100-plus ChatGPT plan while Muse is free for most uses. We compare the two agents on price, purpose, safety and reach, correct a pricing detail in the coverage, explain the economics behind OpenAI’s choice, and set out what it means for UK users and businesses.

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Google Tests Gemini 4 Argon With 1M Output Tokens and a New Coding SOTA

• October 1, 2026
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Google’s Gemini 4 Argon is in limited testing with trusted cyber defenders before a wider release. We explain the one-million-token output and what independent testers measured, how strong the DeepSWE coding record is, what the model costs per task against GPT-6 Astra and Claude, why defenders get it first, and what developers should test.

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ChatGPT’s $500 Tier Buys Speed While the $200 Plan Shrinks

• September 30, 2026
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OpenAI’s new $500 plan is the only personal ChatGPT tier with Astra Ultrafast, and it arrived as the $200 plan lost half its allowance. We check 18 claims against OpenAI’s own documents, show that every rung from Plus upward now costs $20 per unit of usage, and work out what Ultrafast does to a 25x allowance.

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New AI Tool: GPT-6.1 Sol Has Landed on AIxploria

• September 30, 2026
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OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol reached AIxploria about 14 hours after DevDay, badged #4 in LLM models. We checked 24 claims on the card against OpenAI’s docs, system card, Artificial Analysis, OpenRouter and GitHub. Twenty-one hold up; a Terminal-Bench claim, a safety summary and the Freemium tag do not, and the card omits cache-write costs and latency.

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OpenAI Unveils Low-Cost AI Model, a Day After Shelving Astra Upgrade

• September 29, 2026
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OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay on 29 September at one-fifth of GPT-6 Astra’s token price, a day after it shelved GPT-6.1 Astra for ignoring instructions. We compare prices with Astra, GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5, break down OpenAI’s benchmarks, read the system card’s Critical cybersecurity rating and alignment results, and explain when to switch.

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Fo AI Agent Launches With Free Mini Tier and Unlimited OG Version

• September 29, 2026
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Wajo has opened its Fo AI agent to the public with a free Fo Mini tier capped at 1,000 tasks a day, a free but invite-only OG Fo tier with unlimited tasks and call time, and a Pro plan priced on request. We set out what each tier includes, how to get an invite, what free does not cover, how Fo compares with Muse, Instinct and OpenClaw, and the risks to weigh first.

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OpenAI Plans $500 ChatGPT Pro Max Tier and Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Live

• September 25, 2026
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ChatGPT Pro Max, a $500-a-month ChatGPT plan, appeared in OpenAI’s web app code and in a Codex commit on 24 and 25 September 2026. The same week Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and made Live Avatar generally available. This article covers the leak evidence, the renamed Pro ladder, the Gemini benchmarks and pricing, and what businesses should do.

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Wikis.ai Sends One Question to 30 AI Models at Once

• September 7, 2026
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Wikis.ai is a workspace built on a simple refusal: it will not give you one answer. Type a question, pick your models, and it returns several independent replies side by side in a grid — GPT next to Claude next to Gemini — and leaves you to decide which one is actually useful. The product’s […]

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