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Quick answer: ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, and Google AI Pro all sit at roughly $20 a month in September 2026, so price alone won’t decide this for you. Claude Pro wins for long writing and coding sessions where output quality matters more than speed. Google AI Pro is the clear pick if you already pay…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, priced at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. About 90 minutes later, OpenAI answered with two new models: GPT-6 Sol at $2 in / $10 out per million tokens, and GPT-6 Luna at just $0.10 in / $0.50 out. None of…
xAI shipped Grok 4.7 on September 21, 2026, and GitHub rolled it into Copilot’s model picker the same week. As of September 21, 2026, xAI prices Grok 4.7 at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens — unchanged from Grok 4.6, according to GitHub’s own changelog. The model itself is bigger:…
A Windows security update on September 8, 2026 broke the folder-sharing link that Claude Cowork uses to run commands on your machine, so anything that needed Cowork to touch local files or scripts just failed. Microsoft confirmed the cause and shipped an out-of-band fix, KB5129195, on September 14, 2026. According to Microsoft’s own KB5124008 known-issues…
📌 Quick AnswerGemini 3.8 Flash costs $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens right now.That rate holds through December 31, 2026.On January 1, 2027, Google doubles both numbers to $1.50 and $7.50 per million tokens.If your app or agent calls this model at any real volume, the math on switching, batching,…
OpenAI’s official API pricing for GPT-6 Astra is now live: $10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output tokens, and a steep discount on anything reused through prompt caching. Cached input tokens bill at $1 per million instead of $10 — a 90% cut — but writing to that cache costs $12.50 per million,…
Perplexity shipped a Comet update on September 19, 2026 that lets the browser search, create, and update Notion pages, Linear tickets, and GitHub pull requests directly from the assistant sidebar. The catch: only Enterprise Pro and Max subscribers get it at launch. Free and standard Pro users keep the older Drive and Dropbox-style integrations, plus…
Microsoft Copilot broke for thousands of users on September 17, 2026, throwing a generic “I’m having trouble responding to requests right now” message instead of answers. The outage started around 13:50 UTC and Microsoft called it resolved by 5:21 PM ET the same day. If you’re still seeing the error, it’s almost always a cached…
Quick answer: Meta shipped Muse Spark 1.3 on September 2, 2026, and it’s an efficiency update, not a bigger brain. Same context window, same output ceiling, same standard pricing as 1.2. What actually changed is that it uses about 20% fewer tool calls and 25% fewer tokens to finish the same agentic task, according to…
Quick answer Three unrelated AI releases landed in the same week of September 2026. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is an open-weights coding model that undercuts closed models on price. Sakana Fugu Max is not a model you talk to directly — it is a routing layer that picks a cheaper model for simple requests. GPT Image…