GLM-5.2 Price Cut 63%; Ito Overtakes OpenHands, gpt-5-codex Delisted

Prices Heavy repricing across OpenRouter/models.dev today. z-ai/glm-5.2 input cut $1.12→$0.4186/MTok (-62.6%) on models.dev (evt 35494), with OpenRouter's own listing dropping $0.7601→$0.3682 (-51.6%) (evt 35353). deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 input fell $0.14→$0.09/MTok (-35.7%), mirrored on both OpenRouter and models.dev (evt 35610, evt 35612). venice/zai-org-glm-4.7-flash input cut $0.125→$0.06 (-52%) (evt 35471). thinkingmachines/inkling-small input cut $0.58→$0.5 (-13.8%) (evt 35611). Bucking the trend, moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 output jumped $2.48→$3.41/MTok (+37.5%) (evt 35516). Minor moves: openai/gpt-oss-20b output cut $0.14→$0.13 (-7.1%) (evt 35566, evt 35421), qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct output up $0.27→$0.28 (+3.7%) (evt 35529).

Usage On OpenRouter coding-token leaderboards, Ito overtook OpenHands: 53,862,995,368 vs 45,498,841,576 tokens (7d, +18.4%) (evt 35826). Letaido overtook mimocode: 23,681,885,739 vs 22,319,930,071 tokens (7d, +6.1%) (evt 35827).

Releases/Deprecations openai/gpt-5-codex no longer listed on OpenRouter, last seen 2026-07-30 (evt 36902). Also delisted: openai/o4-mini-deep-research and openai/o3-deep-research (evt 36901, evt 36900).

Plans Codex added Free tier at $0/mo and swapped Pro (5x)/(20x) for Pro 5x/20x (evt 35816). Base44 listed new tier pricing: Elite $160/mo, Pro $80/mo, Builder $40/mo, Starter $16/mo (evt 35814). Kilo Code overhauled its plan set, adding Individual and Kilo Pass, removing four legacy tiers (evt 35820).