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Kimi K2.6 Price Cut 38%; Codebuff Overtakes Portkey at 169B Tokens

Prices Heavy repricing across gateways today. Kimi K2.6 fell 38% on input ($0.95→$0.589/MTok) and output ($4→$2.48) via models.dev (evt 33932), with a parallel OpenRouter cut to $0.6/$3.41 (evt 33793). GLM-5.2 moved opposite ways by venue: models.dev raised input +15.9% to $1.12 (evt 33909) while OpenRouter cut it -36.1% to $0.7601 (evt 33763). Qwen3-235B-thinking-2507 dropped 23.3% to $0.23/$2.3 (evt 33947); Mistral Small 3.2-24B fell 25% to $0.075/MTok on both models.dev (evt 33924) and OpenRouter (evt 33841); Qwen3-VL-30B fell 13.3% on both venues (evt 33937, evt 33821). GPT-5.6 variants saw steep cuts: Luna -80% to $0.2/$1.2 across opencode (evt 33893), llmgateway (evt 33878), and crossmodel (evt 33863); Terra -20% to $2/$12 (evt 33868, evt 33862). GPT-OSS-120B rose 5.6% input/14.4% output (evt 34023). Minimax-M2.7 fell 12.5%/12.9% (evt 34013). Qwen3-Coder-480B rose 2.8%/5.2% (evt 34025); DeepSeek-V4-Flash edged up 1.4%/1.8% (evt 33991).

Usage Codebuff overtook Portkey AI in OpenRouter coding tokens, 169453936123 vs 159038688906 over 7 days (+6.5% margin) (evt 34246), after passing 50B tokens/day at 60810658459 the prior day (evt 35329).

Plans Replit Core dropped to $20/mo from $25 (evt 34244). Codex, Cursor, and Claude Code restructured tiers (evts 34236, 34238, 34234); Claude Code Pro now lists $200/yr (evt 34234). Devin dropped its $80/mo Teams price (evt 34239); Base44 delisted four paid tiers (evt 34232); Kilo Code shifted its $588/yr Pass from Starter to Pro (evt 34242).

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