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Emergent Yearly Plans Surge to $204/$2,004; Claude Code Pro Falls to $17/yr

Prices (model APIs) GLM-5.2 cut input $0.9→$0.54/MTok, output $3.08→$1.76 (evt 3859); OpenRouter mirror -35.7% (evt 3839). Minimax-m2.5 input $0.12→$0.15, output $0.48→$0.9 (evt 3864/3844); m2.7 input $0.18→$0.24, output $0.72→$0.96 (evt 3865/3843). GPT-oss-120b input $0.03→$0.036, output $0.15→$0.18 (evt 3860/3846). Deepseek-v3.2 cut input $0.2288→$0.2145 (evt 3845). Kimi-k2.6/kimi-latest input $0.65→$0.66 (evt 3857/3842/3863/3841); kimi-k2.7-code cut $0.74→$0.72 (evt 3855). Laguna-m.1 and laguna-xs.2 input doubled $0.1→$0.2, output $0.3→$0.4 (evt 3867, 3866).

Usage glm-5 passed 50B OpenRouter tokens/day, hitting 82,345,510,888 (evt 4823). zed crossed 10B tokens/day at 10,406,713,137 (evt 4822). openhands crossed 10B at 10,474,508,849 (evt 4821).

Benchmarks openai/gpt-5.6-sol posted top5 marks: 54 on aa-agentic-index, 77.4 on aa-coding-index, 58.9 on aa-intelligence-index (evt 4812, 4811, 4810). gpt-5.6-terra followed with 47.4, 76.7, and 55 on the same indices (evt 4809, 4808, 4807).

Plans Emergent's Standard jumped $17→$204/yr and Pro $167→$2,004/yr (evt 3892). Claude Code's Pro dropped $200→$17/yr, with Free at $0/yr and Enterprise at $20/mo (evt 3887). Replit Core fell $25→$20/mo (evt 3897). Warp introduced Free $0/yr, Build $18/yr, Max $180/yr, Business $45/yr (evt 3898). Base44 shifted Elite/Pro/Builder/Starter from yearly to $160/$80/$40/$16 monthly (evt 3886). Lovable dropped Enterprise and hid Pro/Business pricing (evt 3895). Codebuff's Pay As You Go moved to $0/mo (evt 3888).

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