#AI pricing
18 stories taggedAI pricing.
Last Year's AI Is Good Enough. Dreamforce 2026 Proved It.
Fifty thousand business professionals gathered in San Francisco this week to talk AI. The loudest message from the floor: the models companies already have are more than they can handle.
Anthropic Sued Over Claude's 'Misleading' $100-a-Month Subscription Limits
A class-action lawsuit claims Claude's Max plan promises dramatically expanded usage but buries critical restrictions in hard-to-find fine print. Subscribers say what they paid for and what they got are two different things.
Meta will slash your AI bill by 95% if you let it study how you use the model
The company's new Muse Spark model offers a steep discount in exchange for access to your usage data. A straightforward trade, but worth understanding before you opt in.
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash Thinks Harder, But That Extra Effort Will Cost You More
Same price per token as its predecessor, but Google warns the new model uses more tokens to get better results. Here is what developers and everyday subscribers need to know.
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third new AI model in six weeks
A standard version for coding and everyday tasks, plus a security-focused variant, both priced at half the regular rate until the end of 2025.
Anthropic's New Claude Models Are Cheaper and Less Likely to Refuse Your Questions
Two updated models promise stronger performance at lower cost, fewer frustrating refusals, and a privacy option that keeps business data off Anthropic's servers entirely.
Salesforce and Anthropic team up as customers get billed by the sip
A new Claude-powered product and strong quarterly numbers lifted Salesforce's share price, but the company's credit-based pricing model is drawing fresh scrutiny from analysts who warn of hidden cost spikes.
OpenAI's product chief explains who ChatGPT Work is for, and what it costs to keep it cheap
Thibault Sottiaux oversees every OpenAI product, from the developer API to the consumer chatbot. He spoke to TechCrunch AI about bringing AI agents to ordinary workers, a design philosophy built around simplicity, and why he believes prices will keep falling.
DeepSeek's V4 Flash aces the leaderboards but stumbles on real work, then raises its prices
The AI model everyone called a bargain just got more expensive. New testing shows its real-world performance is patchier than its benchmark scores suggest.
Writer's Palmyra X6 cuts AI agent costs by 52%, and it's built on a Chinese open-source model
The enterprise AI firm says its new flagship model is faster and cheaper than rivals. The base it was built on is a different conversation entirely.
OpenAI and Anthropic slash prices as Chinese AI rivals win over cost-conscious customers
A price war is breaking out at the top of the AI industry. American labs are cutting what they charge for their models, and the trigger is clear: cheaper tools from China are pulling customers away.
Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after its predecessor
The new model brings measurable gains in coding and document reading, and arrives with a cut-price introductory rate as Google feels pressure from cheaper rivals.
Nobody Has Figured Out How to Price AI Yet. That Is a Problem for Everyone
Companies are paying for AI by the token, a tiny unit of text the software processes, but nobody, not startups, not Microsoft, not the firms selling AI services, can predict how many tokens a task will burn. Budgets are blowing up, and the bill lands before anyone notices.
Perplexity Lets You Build a Panel of AI Models to Debate Your Hardest Questions
The search company's Model Council feature now lets paying users pick up to eight AI models, have them tackle a question independently, then read a synthesis of where they agree and where they split.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 with stronger safety guardrails and the same price as its predecessor
The new model sits below the company's most powerful AI but beats it on everyday tasks and costs half as much. Government testing happened before launch.