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MiniMax M3.1 Flash Is Space Bunny: What Changed from M2.7 and M3, and What It CostsIn late September, a model with no maker's name on it topped OpenRouter's daily chart, ahead of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and stayed OpenCode's most-used model for five days straight. It was listed as Space Bunny Alpha, and it was free. That model was MiniMax M3.1 Flash. As of 19 October 2026 you can call it per token on AIHubMix as minimax-m3.1-flash, at $0.165 per million input tokens and $0.66 per million output tokens. The short version: * It replaces M2.7. Starting 19 October, MiniMax sends
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: Same Price, Shorter Outputs, and AIHubMix vs OpenRouter PricingOn Saturday, October 17, 2026, DeepSeek swapped the model behind its deepseek-flash API name for a new checkpoint, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017. The price did not move, the context window did not move, and the calling method did not move. What changed is the model: DeepSeek reports double-digit gains on terminal and program-building benchmarks, and says the new checkpoint finishes tasks faster with shorter outputs. The short answer: if you run coding agents or tool-heavy workflows on the September
Free Qwen3.8 Max and Flash API on AIHubMix: Limits, End Date, and Your First CallAlibaba's flagship Qwen3.8 Max and its fast sibling Qwen3.8 Flash are free to call on AIHubMix right now. The free model IDs are qwen3.8-max-free and qwen3.8-flash-free, and both cost $0 per million tokens for input and output. GMI Cloud is funding the campaign. It went live on October 14, 2026 (Pacific Time) and runs for 30 days, so until around November 13, or until the campaign credits run out, whichever comes first. The free IDs follow the same rules as every other AIHubMix free model: 10
Gemini 4 Argon: Frontier Scores, a 1M-Token Output Limit, and How to Call It NowGemini 4 Argon is Google's first Gemini 4 model and its strongest so far. Independent testers put it level with GPT-6 Astra, it tops the Vals Index for finance, legal and tax work, and it can write up to 1M tokens in a single answer. It also costs less per token than Astra, even after its introductory price ends. Argon became generally available on October 13, 2026. Google's announcement opened it to developers and enterprises through the paid Gemini API, Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, and to
What Is Mistral Large 4? A Trillion-Parameter Specialist from EuropeMistral Large 4 is Mistral AI's new flagship. It has about one trillion parameters, it is trained from scratch in Europe, and its open weights are due at the end of October 2026. It isn't the smartest model available. What makes it notable is that it leads in a few areas where closed flagships either refuse or fall behind: defensive security work, locating objects in images, and legal research agents. Mistral released it on October 6, 2026 as a public preview. Its nickname is "Le Chonk". This
Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Haiku 4.5: What Ten Cents Now BuysClaude Haiku 4.5 scored 0.0% on Terminal-Bench 4.0. Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 39.2%, and it costs a tenth as much per token: $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, against $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5. That is the upgrade in one line. The small Claude model went from "fine for classification, not for agents" to a usable subagent, and its price now matches OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna to the cent. Anthropic released it on October 7, 2026 as Claude Haiku 5.5, model ID claude-haiku-5
GPT-6.1 Sol vs GPT-6 Sol: A One-Week Upgrade That Nearly Catches AstraOpenAI shipped GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay on September 29, 2026. The timing is striking: GPT-6 Sol had been out for exactly one week (it launched September 22 alongside Luna), and the flagship GPT-6 Astra was less than a month old. The official model page sums up the pitch in one line: "Near-Astra performance for complex work at a lower cost." Concretely, that means agentic coding, computer use, and professional tasks at roughly Astra quality, for one fifth of Astra's per-token price. This post ans
GLM-5.3-Flash Pricing Compared: OpenRouter, Z.ai, and AIHubMixGLM-5.3-Flash pricing on OpenRouter, Z.ai, and AIHubMix, including OpenRouter's 5.5% platform fee and cache-ratio cost examples.
Building the Agent Economy: AIHubMix and FluxA Announce Strategic CollaborationAt AIHubMix, we believe the next phase of artificial intelligence will be defined not only by what models can understand, but also by what AI agents can responsibly accomplish. That is why we are announcing a strategic collaboration with FluxA, an agent-native payment infrastructure provider focused on wallets, identity, authorization, service monetization, and payments for autonomous systems. Together, AIHubMix and FluxA are working to connect two essential layers of the Agent Economy: access
GPT-5.6 Sol API Pricing: 50% Off on AIHubMix and OpenRouterGPT-5.6 Sol is currently 50% off on AIHubMix and OpenRouter, but OpenRouter adds a 5.5% Pay-as-you-go platform fee. Compare the real final cost.