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By The Numbers

AgentU · Govern the AI Workforce

27 August 2026 America/Chicago
Haul about 6:41pm CT

Dated. Sourced. Quiet if a host failed.

Nine public-safe signals from the 27 August 2026 haul. The figure is the street or clock number that matters. Also read as restates the same claim in a second unit we already have. Status is the confidence. Dollars are input / output per 1M tokens unless a row says otherwise.

Signal Figure Also read as Clock Source Status

Street vs book

GPT-5.6 Sol

$4 / $20

per 1M · short context · street

Long context $8 / $30. Cached $0.40. Alias gpt-5.6 routes to sol.

Book $5 / $30

Street is under the listed book on short context.

Promo at least through 2026-11-21

OpenAI

developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing

developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog (21 Aug 2026)

As of 27 Aug 2026

Verified

Street vs book

Claude Sonnet 5

$2 / $10

per 1M · now the standard

Book $3 / $15

Hike cancelled. The 2026-09-01 move will not occur.

2026-09-01 hike will not occur

Anthropic

platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing

As of 27 Aug 2026

Verified

Two SKUs, one family

Opus 5 / Fable 5

$5 / $25

per 1M · Opus 5

Cache hit $0.50. Fast mode $10 / $50 is a 2x chip, not the default.

Fable 5 $10 / $50

Same list as Mythos 5, limited. Do not alias Fable onto Opus.

No sunset named this haul

Anthropic

platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing

As of 27 Aug 2026

Verified

New on allowlist

GLM-5.3

$1.4 / $4.4

per 1M · flagship glm-5.3

Text-only. 1M context.

Cached $0.26

Book still lists glm-5.2 / glm-5.1 at the same $1.4 / $4.4.

Flash promo through 2026-09-09 24:00 UTC+8

glm-5.3-flash $0.075 / $0.25. Footnote only. Not a peer bar.

Z.AI

docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing

docs.z.ai/guides/llm/glm-5.3

As of 27 Aug 2026

Verified

New on allowlist

Qwen 3.8 Max

$2 / $6

per 1M · Singapore International · qwen3.8-max

Other listed regions $1.65 / $4.951

Sibling billed id qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b. Same Singapore $2 / $6. 1M context.

Book still Qwen 3.7

Alibaba Cloud

alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen3-8-max

alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen3-8-2-4t-a95b

As of 27 Aug 2026

Verified

Sunset clocks

Nova Premier

14 Sep 2026

EOL · 18 days from this haul

Perplexity Sonar until 27 Sep 2026

31 days. Successor Agent API.

18 days · 31 days

Amazon Bedrock · Perplexity

docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-lifecycle.html

docs.perplexity.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing

As of 27 Aug 2026

Verified

Length cliff

grok-4.6

$2 / $6

per 1M · prompt under 200k

Cached $0.50 under the cliff.

At or above 200k $4 / $12

Applies to all tokens once the prompt is at or above 200k.

Cliff at 200k prompt

Book newest listed grok is 4.5.

xAI

docs.x.ai/developers/models/grok-4.6

As of 27 Aug 2026

Verified

Weekday clock

DeepSeek V4-Pro

$1.32 / $3.96

per 1M · peak · cache-miss

Off-peak $0.66 / $1.98

Half of peak.

Peak UTC Mon-Fri 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00

All other hours off-peak, weekends included. CT this date (UTC-5): 8:00pm-11:00pm Sun-Thu and 1:00am-5:00am Mon-Fri.

DeepSeek

api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing

As of 27 Aug 2026

Verified

Permanent discount

MiniMax-M3

$0.30 / $1.20

per 1M · at or under 512k · permanent 50% off

Cache-read $0.06.

Above 512k $0.60 / $2.40

Permanent. No end date named.

MiniMax

platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-paygo

As of 27 Aug 2026

Verified

Honesty strip

Failed this haul is not no-change. Never fill a failed chip with a third-party number. No Gemini dollar. No Meta dollar. No MAI dollar.

Fetched

9 signals

First-party host returned the figure on this haul.

Failed

Google · Meta · Microsoft

Host timed out, errored, or returned 404.

Unverified

Gemini 3.1 Flash · Muse Spark $

Names may exist. Dollars are withheld.

Google. Failed.

Pricing page timed out. Gemini 3.1 Flash is UNVERIFIED.

ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing

Meta. Failed.

Pricing-rate-limits failed. Muse Spark Standard $ retracted. Landing names 1.1 / 1.2 only. No Meta dollar.

llama.developer.meta.com/docs/getting-started/pricing-rate-limits
llama.developer.meta.com (landing)

Microsoft. Failed.

Hub returned 404. No MAI dollar.

learn.microsoft.com/microsoft.ai

How to read this tab

Each row is one claim. The figure is large so it can be scanned. Also read as is the same claim in a second honest unit (street vs book, days to end of life, peak vs off-peak, or under vs over a length cliff). Clock holds the date window. Source is the first-party host and the live URL. Status does the confidence job.

This page does not invent doubling times, orders of magnitude per year, or interval estimates. Those are not in the haul. A quiet morning still ships the strip plus the last verified dollars, dated.