Change log / August 2026

AI API price changes — August 2026

17 launches, 3 price cuts, 1 deprecation, 1 spec change, 6 retirements (plus 76 models added to statlyte's own coverage that month — not a vendor move). Timestamped and sourced, one row per vendor move.

14 August 2026 2 records

launch

Voyage Code 4 launched

Voyage AI · source

first observation 03:19

launch

Gemini 3.7 Flash launched

Google · source

first observation 03:19

13 August 2026 8 records

cut

Nova-3 price cut

Deepgram · source

first observation 22:28

cut

Flux English price cut

Deepgram · source

first observation 22:28

launch

Qwen3.6 27B launched

Groq · source

first observation 14:11

launch

Safety GPT-OSS 20B launched

Groq · source

first observation 14:11

launch

Llama Prompt Guard 2 86M launched

Groq · source

first observation 14:11

launch

Llama Prompt Guard 2 22M launched

Groq · source

first observation 14:11

launch

Qwen3.8 2.4T-A95B launched

Together AI · source

first observation 14:11

launch

Grok 4.6 launched

xAI · source

first observation 03:18

12 August 2026 10 records

deprecated

GPT-3.5 Turbo deprecated

OpenAI · source

— 16:43

spec

GLM-5.2 context window changed to 512,000 tokens

Together AI · source

first observation 14:12

cut

GLM-5.2 price cut

Mistral · source

cache $0.26 → $0.14 14:12

launch

Muse Glimmer 30B launched

Together AI · source

first observation 03:14

launch

GLM-5.2 launched

Mistral · source

first observation 03:14

retired

Mistral NeMo retired

Mistral · source

— 03:14

retired

Magistral Small retired

Mistral · source

— 03:14

retired

Magistral Medium retired

Mistral · source

— 03:14

retired

Devstral Small 2 retired

Mistral · source

— 03:14

retired

Devstral 2 retired

Mistral · source

— 03:14

11 August 2026 1 record

launch

GPT-5.6 Cyber launched

OpenAI · source

first observation 04:55

7 August 2026 7 records

launch

Ternary Bonsai 27B launched

Together AI · source

first observation 19:41

launch

Gemma 4 31B Instruct (Pearl AI) launched

Together AI · source

first observation 19:41

launch

Cogito v2.1 671B launched

Together AI · source

first observation 19:41

launch

Inkling Small launched

Together AI · source

first observation 19:41

launch

Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning launched

xAI · source

first observation 12:23

launch

Grok 4.20 Reasoning launched

xAI · source

first observation 12:23

retired

GPT-3.5 Turbo retired

OpenAI · source

— 12:23