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Claude Code Pro Rises $17→$200/yr; OpenRouter Hikes Prices on 20+ Models

Prices

OpenRouter repriced a swath of open models today, mostly upward: qwen/qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct input +220% to $0.8/MTok (evt 9139), z-ai/glm-5 input +58.3% to $0.95/MTok (evt 9114), moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 input +52% to $0.57/MTok (evt 9116), qwen/qwen3.6-27b input +55.7% to $0.45/MTok (evt 9101), nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b input +162.5% to $0.21/MTok (evt 9111), and deepseek/deepseek-v3.2 input +25.4% to $0.269/MTok (evt 9119). meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct jumped +150% to $0.05/MTok (evt 9142). Not all moves were hikes: models.dev cut ambient/ambient/large and ambient/z-ai/glm-5.2 input prices -25% to $1.05/MTok (evt 9196, evt 9195), openai/gpt-oss-120b fell -16.7% to $0.03/MTok on models.dev (evt 9176), and google/gemma-4-31b-it dropped -50% to $0.06/MTok (evt 9166). Separately, openai/gpt-oss-120b rose +23.3% to $0.037/MTok on OpenRouter (evt 9128). openai/gpt-5.3-chat is slated for removal from OpenRouter on 2026-08-10 (evt 10265).

Usage

On OpenRouter's 7-day coding-token leaderboard, Codex overtook Peezy Gateway (86,658,352,771 vs 78,418,778,746 tokens, +10.5%, evt 9300), Cursor did the same (83,481,983,750 vs 78,418,778,746, +6.5%, evt 9301), and Oh-My-Pi surpassed Peezy Gateway too (90,255,319,508 vs 78,418,778,746, +15.1%, evt 9299). OpenHands passed Roo Code (43,517,786,462 vs 40,465,076,444, +7.5%, evt 9302), OpenSquilla passed Ito (22,601,277,417 vs 20,640,311,825, +9.5%, evt 9303), Agent Zero passed Letaido (15,895,185,176 vs 15,052,854,036, +5.6%, evt 9304), and mimocode passed Qwen Code (14,511,699,266 vs 13,406,242,010, +8.2%, evt 9305).

Plans

Claude Code's Pro tier annual price moved $17→$200/yr, Enterprise added a $20/mo tier, and Team seat prices were removed from listing while an Education plan was added (evt 9288). Codex introduced a $0/mo Free plan and revised Plus/API Key limits (evt 9290). Zencoder set yearly pricing: Pro $40/yr, Pro Plus $85/yr, Pro Max $175/yr (evt 9298). Replit's Starter tier is listed at $0/yr with updated deployment limits (evt 9296).

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