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Claude Code Pro Jumps to $204/yr; Kimi Model Prices Spike Up to 354%

Plans Claude Code overhauled pricing: Pro $17→$204/yr, Team Standard seat $20→$240/yr, Team Premium seat $100→$1200/yr, with usage-limit tweaks across Free, Max and Enterprise tiers (evt 11849). Junie's AI Free tier now lists $0/mo with added anytime top-ups across Pro/Ultimate/dotUltimate plans (evt 11855). Emergent introduced Standard at $17/yr and Pro at $167/yr, the latter losing its 1M context window (evt 11853). Codex's Plus plan gained new local-message allowances for GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 models, alongside Cloud chats/Code Reviews limits (evt 11851). Kilo Code retired its four legacy Kilo Pass tiers for new Starter/Pro/Expert passes (evt 11856). Smaller limit adjustments landed at Lovable, Bolt, Amazon Q Developer, Devin and Firebase Studio.

Prices Moonshot's kimi-latest input price jumped $0.66→$3/MTok (+354.5%), output to $15 (evt 11692). kimi-k2.6 input rose $0.66→$0.95/MTok (+43.9%) (evt 11661). qwen3.7-max climbed $1.25→$1.475/MTok (+18%) (evt 11694). google/gemma-3-27b-it input rose $0.08→$0.1/MTok (+25%) while output fell to $0.3 (evt 11618). minimax-m2.7 dropped $0.3→$0.25/MTok (-16.7%) (evt 11585), and mistral-nemo eased $0.02→$0.019/MTok (-5%) (evt 11627).

Usage kimi-k2.6 crossed 50B OpenRouter tokens/day, hitting 55,787,031,108 tokens, up from 40,185,798,415 (evt 12851).

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