Ai Pricing

Anthropic extended free Claude Fable 5 access to July 19, 2026 — its second delay in a week. The real timeline, the 50% cap, and how to plan a moving paywall.

Grok 4.5 changes the model-routing question: when does a cheaper near-frontier model beat the benchmark leader on cost per accepted task?

Fable 5 moved to per-token billing at $10/$50 per million tokens on July 12. Here's the real cost math, priced alternatives, and how to route by task class.

DeepSeek V4 is no longer alone. GLM-5.1 leads SWE-Bench Pro, Kimi K2.6 runs 300-agent swarms, Qwen 3.6 ships dense Apache-2.0 weights, and V4-Pro hits #1 on LiveCodeBench. The April 2026 open-source pricing reset is real.

OpenAI and GitHub just showed why agentic compute breaks flat-rate AI pricing. Learn how to price, govern, and scale long-running agent workflows.