Trends

Price competition adds speed and time-of-day tiers

Model price-performance · Aug 14 – Aug 14

Branched fromAI labs move inference onto custom silicon

Organizations

CerebrasDeepSeekGoogleGoogle DeepMindOpenAI

Updates

  1. Aug 14New

    OpenAI previewed a Cerebras-powered Ultrafast tier running GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14x faster at 750 tokens per second, DeepSeek priced V4-Pro about 46x below Claude Fable 5 with peak and off-peak rates to follow, and Gemini 3.7 Flash launched at half 3.6 Flash's price.

    OpenAI previews Cerebras-powered Ultrafast modeDeepSeek V4-Pro reaches general availabilityGoogle's Gemini 3.7 Flash

Predictions

  1. Feb 2027

    Speed-class tiers and specialized inference hardware move into frontier serving, and cost and latency per completed task remain the primary axis of model competition. Aug 14