Changelog

What changed, week by week.

Pricing updates, new calculators, methodology revisions. Updated every Monday. If you spot a stale rate, we usually fix it within 48 hours.

  1. Launch

    SmartCloudSuites enters public beta

    First public release. Six categories scoped, five calculators live, ten more in active build. The LLM API Cost Calculator is the flagship — token-level comparison across 14 frontier models with prompt-caching modeled by default.

  2. Launch

    Brand identity finalized

    Olive green + antique brass palette across the site. Premium operator aesthetic — designed to read as a serious research publication, not an SEO farm.

  3. Pricing

    Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 — pricing verified

    Confirmed $3.00 / $15.00 per million input/output tokens. Cached input at $0.30/M (10% of base, 5-minute TTL). No changes from prior week.

  4. Pricing

    OpenAI GPT-4o mini — pricing verified

    Confirmed $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens. Cached input at $0.075/M. Still the cheapest first-party frontier-class option for high-volume English text workloads.

  5. Pricing

    DeepSeek V3 — pricing verified

    Confirmed $0.27 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens. Off-peak discount of 50% applies between 16:30–00:30 UTC. For batch-tolerant workloads, this is the cheapest frontier-class option indexed.

  6. Methodology

    Prompt caching modeled by default

    Added cached-input ratio slider to the LLM cost calculator. Reflects the reality that most production workloads have 30–60% repeated input (system prompts, knowledge bases). Defaults to 0.30 — adjust per your workload.

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