Pricing & limits

OpenCode revised its Go plan to include $30 in usage for a $10 subscription. The change follows a provider price increase and the company’s effort to secure lower-cost capacity.

OpenCode says it revised Go limits after DeepSeek raised prices. Its operator is testing hosting configurations intended to bring DeepSeek service closer to its prior price point.

Codex now lets ChatGPT subscribers enable a 1 million-token context window for GPT-5.6 Sol. Automatic compaction starts at 900,000 tokens, and tokens beyond the default window count double against limits.

OpenCode’s thdxr said Go users spent $1.14 per day on DeepSeek V4 Flash last week. Wafer added a fast OpenRouter route, while Nous extended a 90% discount for the 0731 model.

Guillermo Rauch listed shipped safeguards including spend caps, anomaly alerts, recursion protection, billing APIs and DDoS mitigation. The post followed reports of agents looping until queues timed out.

ComfyUI says Seedance 2.5 is live via Partner Nodes with 30-second runs, up to 50 references, timeline shot control, editing, and multilingual lip sync. Fal, Pika, Venice, and other tools also added access.

Cursor users say AI IDE agent runs are hard to audit and hard to constrain. Reddit threads cite hidden model routing, cache charges, destructive SQL migrations, rules folders, runbooks, and context-trimming pipelines.

Cline tripled its free quota while Nous discounted Flash 0731 by 90% for a week and OpenHands offered free cloud use. OpenCode reported 8T Flash tokens on Aug. 1.

OpenAI said GPT-5.6 Luna pricing fell 80%, while Terra fell 20%. Codex users recommended max reasoning for linting, tests, and dependency work, but cautioned against forcing Luna into subagent roles.

Claude Code users reported Fable 5 and Opus 5 sessions exhausting five-hour usage windows in about 6–10 minutes after automated tool calls. The reports tie the failures to agent loops and rate-limit economics, including one Reddit claim of 10.26M tokens, 15 calls, and no edits.

OpenAI said GPT-5.6 Luna is 80% cheaper and Terra is 20% cheaper, with lower usage burn in Codex and ChatGPT Work. Sol Fast adds up to 2.5x speed at 2x price, and gateways reflected the new pricing.

Moonshot published Kimi K3 weights, a technical report, and a blog for a 2.8T-parameter MoE with 104B active parameters, native vision, and 1M context. The license adds separate terms for large model-as-a-service providers.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 with Fast Mode on paid plans and the API at the Opus 4.8 price. Benchmarks from ARC Prize, Artificial Analysis, Vals AI, and tool vendors put it near or ahead of Fable 5 on several agent and coding tests.

Posts quoting Liang Wenfeng said DeepSeek is targeting low positive API margins while constrained by GPU supply. They also said early-June capacity was about 20,000 H100-equivalent units and that Huawei capacity remains below Nvidia.

Posts citing Anthropic say Fable 5 will stay in Claude Max and Team Premium at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard move to credit access with a one-time $100 credit after July 20.

Starting July 20, Fable 5 is included in Claude Max and Team Premium at 50% of plan limits. Pro and Team Standard shift to credit-based access with a one-time $100 credit.

Anthropic said it resolved an issue that made Fable 5 unavailable in claude.ai and Claude Code after users reported lost access or credit prompts. ClaudeDevs said affected extra-usage customers would receive refunds plus matching credits.

Cursor users reported unintended Claude Opus, Sonnet, Fable, or API calls after selecting other settings. Reports included 22.6M-token burns, hard usage stops, and unexpected bills.

OpenAI said Codex and ChatGPT Work reached 9M active users and received another limit reset while reliability work continued. Users still reported weekly caps after long GPT-5.6 Sol coding runs.

OpenAI said 7M active users now use Codex and ChatGPT Work, and paid users reported an extra reset card in web and mobile settings. Other reports said GPT-5.6 Sol context changes may reduce Codex burn.

OpenAI said GPT-5.6 Sol's 372k context in Codex charged more usage than intended, so it reverted Codex to 272k. It also removed a five-hour cap, reset some rates, and passed inference savings into more subscription usage.

Anthropic extended Fable 5 on paid plans and raised Claude Code weekly limits by 50% through July 19 while keeping the half-week cap. Users still described the rolling access changes as disruptive.

Genspark and OpenClaw added Grok 4.5 after xAI's launch, extending the model into more coding-agent workflows. Follow-up evidence covered AA-Briefcase and Terminal-Bench results, a Composio credential-audit run, and SuperGrok usage-meter reports.

SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 in Cursor and several agent tools with $2/M input and $6/M output pricing. Early evals place it near frontier coding models, with 51% on AutomationBench-AA.

Anthropic says paid Claude plans keep Fable 5 access until July 12, with Fable use capped at 50% of weekly limits. Users still reported exhausted quotas and multiple Max subscriptions as workarounds.

A Fable maintainer set the Claude subscription cutoff for 11:59:59pm PT on July 7 as users posted high Claude Code credit usage. One estimate claimed about $2,267 of usage across two $200 accounts in six days.

Fable 5 users said Claude Max subscription access runs through July 7, with some reporting it may return only when compute is available. The deadline changed planning for Fable-heavy coding runs and fallback options.

One Claude Code user parsed 95 sessions and estimated subagent prompt caching made total spend about 8% high. pxpipe separately rendered dense text as images to cut context cost, with exactness tradeoffs.

Fable users reported cost escalations from $300/day estimates to a single high-effort prompt above $130 and quota-drain complaints on Reddit. Users also reported automatic Opus fallback and safety refusals tied to bio/cyber safeguards.

Fable 5 users reported Opus 4.8 fallbacks, $600 Max-account rotations, slow browser automation, and token-saving subagents. Watch routing opacity, quota burn, and latency before relying on it for long-running agent work.

Codex app code now references GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, while posts claim Sol Ultra reaches 91.9% on TerminalBench at lower cost. Treat release timing, limits, and benchmark claims as unofficial until OpenAI publishes details.

Condense.chat opened a compression proxy that strips tokens with Helene 1 and compacts settled agent loops with Adeline 1 to about 9% of their size. The service claims 100M saved tokens and 3× plan extension for Claude or Codex users, so test it on non-sensitive workflows first.

Users posted mixed reports after Anthropic brought Fable 5 back: some sessions stayed on Fable, while others routed most work to Opus 4.8 or stalled mid-run. Watch for routing changes and cost spikes, since reports also mention refusals on ordinary tasks and ad hoc multi-model workarounds.

Vals and Artificial Analysis published independent Sonnet 5 results a day after launch, placing it just behind Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 while using far more turns than Sonnet 4.6. Lower token pricing did not make agentic tasks cheaper, and some finance benchmarks still triggered refusals.

Google shipped Nano Banana 2 Lite for image generation and Gemini Omni Flash for conversational video generation and editing in the Gemini API and AI Studio. The release sets image generation at about 4 seconds and $0.034 per 1K image, while Omni Flash adds multi-turn video edits at $0.10 per second.

Cognition launched Devin Fusion, a hybrid coding harness that reroutes work mid-task and says it cuts Fable-class cost by 35%. Use it when upfront routing misses late complexity; the router can re-evaluate after investigation starts.

A day after Codex reset limits for weekend drain reports, OpenAI said auto-review, duplicate background suggestions, and retry behavior were compounding usage and issued another full reset. Users also get one extra reset credit within 24 hours while reporting and scheduling fixes roll out.

OpenRouter said four open-weight models now handle real agentic workloads, and a JPMorgan report put Chinese models at about 45% of platform traffic. The shift matters because teams are optimizing for price, hosting, and task fit instead of defaulting to frontier APIs.

Datalab’s balanced extraction mode scored 95.9% on a 225-document benchmark and beat Reducto Deep Extract’s 95.1%, according to Vik Paruchuri. The update also adds citations and reasoning, but the benchmark and price comparison are vendor-reported.

OpenAI said Codex accounts were seeing faster usage draining than intended because abuse and fraud checks were overflagging some sessions, then issued a usage reset for all users. It matters because paid Codex workflows were losing quota unexpectedly mid-run, directly affecting reliability and cost.

A day after Seedance 2.0's 4K rollout story, partners began shipping the cheaper Seedance 2.0 Mini across Venice, ComfyUI, and Pika MCP. The 15-second 720p variant with native audio gives video workflows a lower-cost path than the flagship model.

A day after Claude Tag launched, engineers raised token billing, lock-in, and shared-memory concerns while Anthropic described its agent-identity model. Watch how Claude behaves in shared Slack channels, where it uses its own credentials and scoped access.

Vercel and Wafer launched a serverless GLM-5.2 endpoint on AI Gateway with 1M context and published pricing. Teams get a high-throughput open-model option inside an existing gateway instead of managing GLM inference directly.

Kilo Code added an Auto Efficient mode that routes each request to the cheapest model that clears its benchmark bar using public KiloBench results. The router stays session-aware and falls back to stronger paid models when confidence is low.

Independent results put GLM-5.2 at the top of the open-model DeepSWE board and near the top on debate and post-train evals. Watch token use and long reasoning traces, which can offset its headline price advantage.

Practitioners published concrete GLM-5.2 self-host numbers, from Mac Studio and 4090-class setups to annualized power and hardware costs. That matters because open weights now offer privacy and rate-limit control, but quant quality, electricity, and latency still keep hosted APIs cheaper for many teams.

Independent tests put GLM-5.2 near Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on planning and coding, and users shared Claude Code, BrowserCode, dcode, and local-serving recipes. It matters because many engineers are treating it as a daily-driver option for text-heavy coding, though teams still report weaker vision and provider limits.

Kilo Code now shows Terminal Bench completion rate and average attempt cost directly in model details inside its CLI and VS Code extension. It matters because the numbers come from Kilo's own harness and retry logic rather than public leaderboard scaffolds.

Moonshot rolled out HighSpeed for Kimi K2.7 Code, claiming about 180 tok/s on coding tasks, up to 260 tok/s on shorter contexts, and roughly 6x speedups. Watch the tight capacity limits and mixed benchmark results, and budget for the 2x pricing if you want the faster mode.

Anthropic paused a same-day policy change that would have moved Claude Agent SDK, claude -p, and third-party SDK apps onto separate monthly credits. Existing subscription-backed workflows continue unchanged for now, but teams should watch for the redesigned billing plan.