Claude Opus 5.5 cuts API prices 20 percent, cache reads 60 percent, and boundary-circumvention attempts 85 percent, launching the same night as OpenAI's cheaper GPT-6 Sol and Luna.
Anthropic announced a permanent 25% increase to Claude Code's baseline weekly limits starting September 14, but for everyone using it today, that's a net 17% reduction from current access levels.
The planned September 1 increase from $2/$10 to $3/$15 per million tokens is off. Sonnet 5 stays at introductory pricing permanently. The catch is a new tokenizer that produces about 30% more tokens for the same code.
The 50% weekly usage boost for Claude Code expires August 31. The permanent change coming September 14 looks like a raise on paper but works out to a 17% reduction from today's levels.
Anthropic made the Claude Sonnet 5 introductory price permanent on August 10. The planned September 1 increase to $3/$15 per MTok was cancelled. Input stays at $2, output at $10.
Anthropic's introductory rate of $2/$10 per million tokens for Claude Sonnet 5 expires at the end of the month. Standard pricing of $3/$15 takes effect September 1, and the new tokenizer adds another layer of cost that most estimates undercount.
Cursor Start brings Grok 4.5, cloud agents, and UPI payments to Indian developers at roughly $7/month, as the company expands locally ahead of its pending $60B SpaceX acquisition.
Three new Gemini models landed on July 21, led by Gemini 3.6 Flash — cheaper, faster, and more accurate than its predecessor. Meanwhile Google confirms Gemini 4 pretraining has started, and 3.5 Pro is still stuck in partner testing.
Anthropic reversed the July 7 cutoff for Claude Fable 5 just hours before it was set to take effect, extending included access on paid plans through July 12 at 11:59 PM PT.
The 13-day free window for Claude Fable 5 on paid plans closed on June 22. Starting June 23, all Claude subscribers need usage credits to access the model. Here's what that means in practice and what Anthropic has said about restoring it.
A planned June 15 change that would have moved Agent SDK and claude -p usage to a separate per-user credit pool was pulled back by Anthropic on the same day it was supposed to take effect, after significant developer pushback.
AWS's Kiro IDE shipped two updates on June 11: a new Pro Max plan with 5,000 monthly credits, and Kiro Web now supports Specs, GitLab repositories, and cross-repo sessions in the browser.
GitHub switched Copilot to usage-based AI Credits billing on June 1. A week in, developers are reporting that agentic workflows eat through monthly allowances in hours. The community backlash thread has nearly 1,000 thumbs-down reactions.
DeepSeek's 75% promotional discount on V4-Pro expired May 31, and the company made it permanent instead of reverting. Output tokens are now $0.87 per million.
Anthropic raised Claude Code weekly limits by 50% for all paid plans on May 13, through July 13. The increase follows a doubling of 5-hour rate limits on May 6 and removal of peak hour throttling — three capacity expansions in five weeks, funded in part by a new compute deal with SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center.
GitHub announced a new Copilot Max plan at $100/month with $200 in total monthly value, introduced flex allotments to Pro and Pro+, and shipped code review improvements including severity labels and grouped comments — all taking effect on June 1 with the AI Credits billing switch.
Cursor is removing the $40 per-seat monthly subscription for Bugbot and switching to usage-based billing for Teams and Individuals. The change also unlocks configurable effort levels — you can now tell Bugbot to think harder on complex PRs.
GitHub is dropping the premium request unit system for all Copilot plans on June 1, 2026, switching to a token-based credit model. Opus is out of the Pro tier, sign-ups are paused, and the fallback experience is going away.
A macOS Gemini app teardown found strings pointing to a new 'Google AI Ultra Lite' subscription tier sitting between the $20 AI Pro and $250 AI Ultra plans. A usage dashboard tracking token budgets is also in development.
Starting June 1, 2026, GitHub Copilot replaces premium requests with GitHub AI Credits — token-based metered billing that ties cost directly to how much inference you consume.
GitHub announced April 27 that all Copilot plans will switch from premium request units to GitHub AI Credits on June 1, 2026. Base prices stay the same but usage is calculated on actual token consumption, and developers are not happy about it.
GitHub paused new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, Student, and Business plans starting April 20, citing unsustainable compute costs from agentic workflows. Usage limits tightened and Opus models restricted to Pro+ only.
Anthropic quietly updated its pricing page on April 21 to remove Claude Code from the $20 Pro plan, said nothing about it, got caught, and reversed within hours. It called the whole thing an A/B test.
Anthropic is testing the removal of Claude Code from its cheapest paid tier. No announcement, no changelog - just a pricing page update that developers noticed immediately. Here's what happened, why it matters, and what Anthropic says about it.
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