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The era of subsidized intelligence is quietly closing its doors. If you built your unit economics around the assumption that frontier models would race to the bottom forever, I suggest you sit down and look at your next cloud bill.
We run our own LLM price catalog here at Stork, pinging first-party list prices daily because labs have a funny habit of not issuing press releases when they make things more expensive. Last night, our trackers lit up. Alibaba raised the output price on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 from $0.40 to $1.32 per million tokens—a 230% spike. Input costs more than doubled. They weren't alone. Mistral hiked its latest Ministral 3B and 8B models by 150% and 50% respectively. Alibaba's Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is up 52%. Across the board, we caught 17 distinct price movements, with only Zhipu AI moving aggressively in the opposite direction, slashing GLM-5V-Turbo by 85%.
