Pricing activity

Pricing activity is a running log of the material changes we track across the Blueprint — price moves, packaging and plan changes, and product launches. Newest first, each linked to the company it affects.

Updated

June 2026

  • Packaging
    Murf AI

    Creator/Business rebrand; Murf API and Murf Dub launch

    Murf renames its Studio plans to Creator and Business and ships the Murf API and Murf Dub as separate usage-billed products.

  • Price change
    You.com

    Research Lite raised to $12; Finance Research API launches

    You.com raises Research Lite to $12 per 1k and ships a dedicated Finance Research API, extending its 2026 API repricing.

May 2026

  • Packaging
    Ideogram

    New plan grid: Free / Plus $15 / Pro $42 / Team $20 per user

    Ideogram sets a four-tier subscription grid plus a per-image pay-as-you-go API from $0.025.

  • Price change
    Synthesia

    Plans cut ~34% — entry tier now $14/mo

    Synthesia lowers prices across its lineup, with self-serve plans now starting at $14/mo.

  • Launch
    Anthropic

    Claude 4.x lineup lands with a $200 Max plan

    Anthropic refreshes Claude.ai with the Claude 4.x family and adds a $200/mo Max tier above Pro.

  • Launch
    Cerebras

    Cerebras Code subscriptions launch; rate card narrows

    Cerebras introduces fixed-price Cerebras Code coding subscriptions alongside a tightened public inference rate card.

  • Packaging
    HeyGen

    Cutover to a unified credit-based model

    HeyGen moves every plan onto a single credit currency spanning avatars, dubbing and video.

  • Packaging
    Character.ai

    Legacy chat styles move behind the c.ai+ paywall

    Character.ai removes legacy chat styles for free users and soft-launches them behind its c.ai+ subscription.

  • Price change
    ElevenLabs

    Conversational AI (Agents) price cut

    ElevenLabs cuts Conversational AI pricing again as it leans further into pay-as-you-go agent usage.

  • Packaging
    HeyGen

    Generative Credits renamed Premium Credits; dubbing made unlimited

    HeyGen renames its core credit and makes audio dubbing unlimited ahead of the credit-model cutover.

  • Packaging
    Mistral AI

    Le Chat rebrands to Vibe; $5.99 student plan added

    Mistral renames Le Chat to Vibe, repositioning it as a work-and-code agent, and introduces a $5.99/mo student plan.

  • Launch
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.x flagship line goes live

    OpenAI ships the GPT-5 family — GPT-5.5 at $5/$30 and GPT-5.4 at $2.50/$15 per 1M tokens — its biggest API reset since GPT-4o.

April 2026

  • Price change
    Exa

    Endpoint cards redesigned; base Search raised to $7/1k

    Exa restructures pricing into per-endpoint cards and raises base Search to $7 per 1,000 results.

  • Launch
    Google

    Gemini 3 family launches with regional pricing

    Google releases the Gemini 3 model family and introduces region-based token pricing.

  • Price change
    You.com

    Major price cuts — Search to $5, Contents to $1

    You.com slashes API prices, dropping Search to $5/1k and Contents to $1/1k, and retitles its pricing page.

March 2026

  • Packaging
    Perplexity AI

    Comet browser goes free; Comet Plus add-on at $5/mo

    Perplexity makes its Comet browser free and introduces a $5/mo Comet Plus add-on.

February 2026

  • Packaging
    Modal

    AWS and GCP Marketplace billing for enterprise

    Modal adds AWS and GCP Marketplace billing so enterprises can pay through existing cloud commitments.

  • Price change
    Baseten

    Cached-input pricing comes to Model APIs

    Baseten adds discounted cached-input pricing to its multi-tenant Model APIs.

  • Price change
    RunPod

    Idle vs running volume-disk differential pricing

    RunPod begins charging different rates for idle versus running network-volume storage.

  • Launch
    Cartesia

    Voice Agents reach GA with flat per-minute pricing

    Cartesia takes Voice Agents to general availability on a flat per-minute rate.

  • Packaging
    Fireworks AI

    Embeddings priced by parameter size

    Fireworks introduces parameter-size-based pricing for its embeddings models.

  • Packaging
    Cursor (Anysphere)

    Six-plan structure formalized

    Cursor settles into a six-plan lineup following its 2025 credit-pool transition.

  • Launch
    Recraft

    Recraft V4 launches; video generation enters the lineup

    Recraft ships V4 and adds video generation across its credit tiers.

January 2026

  • Launch
    Groq

    Built-in tools pricing: web search, visits, code execution

    Groq adds per-use pricing for built-in agent tools — web search, page visits and code execution.

  • Packaging
    Perplexity AI

    Two-tier enterprise: Enterprise Pro + Enterprise Max

    Perplexity splits its enterprise offering into Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max tiers.

  • Launch
    Together AI

    Specialized model fine-tuning tier launches

    Together AI adds a dedicated fine-tuning tier for specialized models.

  • Price change
    Codeium

    Windsurf Pro repriced to $15/mo; credit pool expanded

    Codeium lowers Windsurf Pro to $15/mo and expands the agentic credit pool after the OpenAI acquisition.

  • Packaging
    Perplexity AI

    API restructured into Search API + Agentic Research

    Perplexity reorganizes its developer API around a Search API and a new Agentic Research tier.

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