AI Agent Token Costs in 2026: Cheap Tokens, Costly Tasks
July 22, 2026
AI agent token costs keep exploding even as per-token prices fall. Why cost-per-task beats price-per-token in 2026 — and what Grok 4.5 and GPT-5.6 reveal.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash: Benchmarks, Pricing & API (2026)
June 15, 2026
Gemini 3.5 Flash is GA: a 1M-token agentic coding model at $1.50/$9 per million tokens. See the benchmarks, API changes, pricing, and whether you should switch.
Gemini 3.5 Flash: Benchmarks, Pricing, Speed (2026)
May 23, 2026
Gemini 3.5 Flash launched at Google I/O 2026: a fast Flash-tier model that beats Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding benchmarks. Full pricing, speed, and specs explained.
China's Open-Weight Coding Wave: 4 Models, 18 Days
May 17, 2026
Four Chinese labs shipped open-weight coding models in 18 days. Inside the benchmarks, prices, and architectures reshaping agentic coding economics in 2026.
DeepSeek V4: Open-Weight Frontier at 1/7 the Cost
May 2, 2026
DeepSeek V4 ships 1.6T MoE open weights with 1M-token context: 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified at $1.74/$3.48 per million — roughly 1/7 the output cost of Claude Opus 4.7.