The biggest recent price move is openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash, up 386.1% from $0.11 to $0.52/Mtok blended. The same pattern shows up across several OpenRouter listings: DeepSeek and GLM prices moved up fast, while Claude Haiku and GPT-OSS moved down hard.
For developers, this is a reminder that model choice can change budget math quickly, even when you stay inside the same provider ecosystem.
The sharpest increases are concentrated in a few OpenRouter-hosted models. openrouter/~deepseek/deepseek-pro-latest rose 230% from $0.6 to $1.98/Mtok blended, openrouter/~deepseek/deepseek-flash-latest climbed 150% from $0.21 to $0.52/Mtok blended, and openrouter/~z-ai/glm-flash-latest doubled from $0.12 to $0.24/Mtok blended. That cluster suggests pricing resets are happening in the fast-moving, lower-cost end of the market, where small absolute changes can still translate into big percentage swings.
On the downside, openrouter/~anthropic/claude-haiku-latest fell 90% from $2 to $0.2/Mtok blended, while openrouter/openai/gpt-oss-120b:batch dropped 78.6% from $0.26 to $0.06/Mtok blended. openrouter/openai/gpt-oss-120b also declined 73.2% from $0.26 to $0.07/Mtok blended. For budget planning, the practical takeaway is that the cheapest option last week may not stay cheap, and the most expensive options are not always stable either.
openrouter/qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507 is the quieter move in the set, up 77.8% from $0.08 to $0.15/Mtok blended. Even though that is a smaller absolute price than the bigger movers, it still matters for high-volume workloads because repeated inference magnifies every change.
| Model | Provider | Was | Now | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash | Openrouter | $0.11 | $0.52 | +386.1% |
| openrouter/~deepseek/deepseek-pro-latest | Openrouter | $0.6 | $1.98 | +230% |
| openrouter/~deepseek/deepseek-flash-latest | Openrouter | $0.21 | $0.52 | +150% |
| openrouter/~z-ai/glm-flash-latest | Openrouter | $0.12 | $0.24 | +100% |
| openrouter/~anthropic/claude-haiku-latest | Openrouter | $2 | $0.2 | -90% |
| openrouter/openai/gpt-oss-120b:batch | Openrouter | $0.26 | $0.06 | -78.6% |
| openrouter/qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507 | Openrouter | $0.08 | $0.15 | +77.8% |
| openrouter/openai/gpt-oss-120b | Openrouter | $0.26 | $0.07 | -73.2% |
- Expect price volatility, especially around DeepSeek and GLM listings.
- Do not assume low-cost models stay low-cost, claude-haiku-latest and gpt-oss-120b both moved sharply.
- Batch pricing can diverge from standard pricing, as seen in gpt-oss-120b:batch.
- For heavy usage, even small blended-price shifts can change monthly spend fast.
About this data. Figures are from MyTokenTracker live data (model prices, AI Cost Index, open data API), free to use and cite under CC BY 4.0. Snapshot: October 12, 2026.