Model Pricing & API

Model pricing and API access change frequently — new tiers, rate-limit adjustments, token-price shifts, and access-policy updates can directly affect build costs and deployment feasibility. Builders and operators need to catch these changes before they compound into unexpected bills or blocked workflows.

This cluster covers pricing announcements, API breaking changes, rate-limit updates, and access-policy signals from major model providers and inference platforms. Each signal links back to the primary source.

Use this page as a cost-and-access watch list: monitor pricing trends, catch API breaking changes early, and compare provider options before committing budget or architecture decisions.

13 signalsSorted by date, newest first

How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts

How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts Parameter Labs describe an exploit they found against ChatGPT's implementation of the artifacts pattern (OpenAI used to call this "Canvas" but it…

toolsecurity
Oct 31, 2026·Simon WillisonOriginal source →

datasette-llm 0.1a9

Release: datasette-llm 0.1a9 I have some big upgrades to Datasette Agent in the pipeline, but in the meantime here's a tiny user experience improvement to the underlying datasette…

toolmodelagentproduct
Oct 31, 2026·Simon WillisonOriginal source →

GPT-6.1 Terra

GPT-6.1 Terra It's always interesting to note which aspects of a new model are emphasized in the release announcement. In the case of GPT-6.1 Terra, OpenAI went with visual reason…

toolmodelagentinfraproduct
Oct 26, 2026·Simon WillisonOriginal source →

Quick Study

Tool: Quick Study Prompt to Claude Opus 5.5 High : Build an artifact where you open a photo and it rapidly (in a few seconds) paints a version of that photo using a canvas element…

toolresearchproduct
Oct 23, 2026·Simon WillisonOriginal source →

llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1

Release: llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 When I switched LLM over to httpx2 in LLM 0.33 I forget that this would break any plugins which used httpx without directly depending on it. llm…

toolmodelproduct
Oct 18, 2026·Simon WillisonOriginal source →

llm-echo 0.5

Release: llm-echo 0.5 I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve a…

toolmodelinfraproduct
Oct 18, 2026·Simon WillisonOriginal source →

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