OpenRouter API Pricing Update: October 6, 2026
20 free models are available today on OpenRouter, with 464 models tracked and 177 offering open weights.
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One report a day, written from the numbers overfeed.news measures: GPU rental prices, LLM API prices and what the AI world published. Every figure in a report comes from our own data for that day.
Week in AI: 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026
Overfeed indexed 1,076 items this week, led by 550 research papers from arXiv and 331 Hacker News threads, with peak volume of 251 items on 29 September.
OpenRouter LLM API Pricing Update: October 4, 2026
22 models are free on OpenRouter today, with DeepSeek Flash Latest now the cheapest paid option at $0.003 per million input tokens.
GPU Rental Market — 2026-10-03
The cheapest 80 GB GPU is the A800 PCIE at $0.43/hr on vast.ai, while the MI300X leads the 141 GB+ tier at $2.39/hr on runpod; day-over-day moves include a 141% jump for the GTX 1660 S and a 76% drop for the GTX 1660 Ti, both on vast.ai.
OpenRouter API Pricing Update: October 2, 2026
On October 2, 2026, OpenRouter tracks 464 models with 21 free models, including two new free entries from Apodex and Thinking Machines, while paid model prices shifted across DeepSeek, Z.ai, and MoonshotAI families.
GPU Rental Market Update: October 1, 2026
The H200 GPU saw the largest hourly price increase versus yesterday, rising 280.9% to $15.79 on vast.ai, while the RTX 4060 dropped 98.9% week-over-week to $0.0816.
OpenRouter API Pricing Update: September 30, 2026
On September 30, 2026, OpenRouter tracked 464 models with 20 free models and 178 open-weight models, while introducing four new paid models from OpenAI and adjusting prices for 12 existing models.
GPU Rental Market Report 2026-09-29
The GPU rental market tracked 96 chips across 213 listings from runpod and vast.ai on 2026-09-29, with the RTX 4090 remaining the most offered card at 37 listings on vast.ai.
Week in AI: 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27
Overfeed indexed 1,046 items this week, with research papers from arXiv accounting for 500 items and Hacker News discussions contributing 334 items.
GPU Rental Market Update: September 27, 2026
The cheapest GPU with at least 24 GB VRAM is the Tesla V100 at $0.1356 per hour on vast.ai, with 15 offers available.
OpenRouter API Pricing Update: 21 Free Models, DeepSeek Cuts Input Prices, New Entrants
OpenRouter tracks 459 models as of 2026-09-26, with 21 models currently free and 177 open-weight models available; DeepSeek reduced input prices across four models while Z.ai and inclusionAI also adjusted pricing.
GPU Rental Market — 2026-09-25
The cheapest 24 GB VRAM GPU is the RTX A5000 at $0.16/hr on runpod, while the MI300X leads the 192 GB tier at $2.39/hr on runpod; day-over-day the RTX 4060 fell 99.1% to $0.0692/hr and the H200 rose 62.8% to $4.2873/hr.
OpenRouter API Pricing Update: 24 Free Models, DeepSeek Price Shifts, and New Paid Entrants
On 2026-09-24, OpenRouter tracks 459 models with 24 available for free, including new free offerings from Google, NVIDIA, and Thinking Machines, while several DeepSeek models saw input and output price adjustments.
GPU Rental Market Report — 2026-09-23
The cheapest 24 GB GPU is the RTX 3090 at $0.1563/hr on vast.ai, while the MI300X at 192 GB leads the high-VRAM tier at $2.39/hr on runpod; RTX 4070 prices surged 246% versus yesterday and 284% versus a week ago.
LLM API Pricing Update: September 22, 2026
On September 22, 2026, OpenRouter tracked 443 models with 24 available for free, including new free offerings from Google and Thinking Machines, while paid models saw price adjustments across input and output tokens.
Week in AI: September 14–20, 2026
Overfeed indexed 997 items across research, community, news and models during the week of September 14–20, with research and community each contributing roughly 400 items and arXiv and Hacker News dominating sources.
OpenRouter API Pricing Update: September 20, 2026
On September 20, 2026, OpenRouter tracked 447 models with 25 free models and 187 open-weight models, while several paid models saw input and output price reductions.
GPU Rental Market Report — 2026-09-19
The GPU rental market tracked 100 chips across 227 listings from runpod and vast.ai, with the cheapest 24 GB VRAM option at $0.12/hr on a Tesla V100 and the cheapest 192 GB VRAM option at $2.39/hr on an MI300X.
OpenRouter API Pricing Update: 24 Free Models, Price Increases for DeepSeek V3 and Others
On 2026-09-18, OpenRouter tracks 445 models with 24 available for free, including new free offerings from Qwen and Thinking Machines.
GPU Rental Market Update: September 17, 2026
The cheapest GPU with at least 24 GB VRAM is the Tesla V100 at $0.1356 per hour on vast.ai, with 13 offers available.