LLM hosting prices: what changed in February 2026
No price cuts and no rises.
0 price cuts · 0 price rises · 0 models newly sold per token · 0 withdrawn · 0 new GPU instances · 0 new regions
The clouds' own announcements
- Anthropic: We’ve retired the Claude Sonnet 3.7 model (claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219) and the Claude Haiku 3.5 model (claude-3-5-haiku-20241022).
- Anthropic: We’ve launched automatic caching for the Messages API.
- Anthropic: We’ve launched Claude Sonnet 4.6, our latest balanced model combining speed and intelligence for everyday tasks.
- Anthropic: We’ve introduced data residency controls, allowing you to specify where model inference runs with the inference_geo parameter.
- Anthropic: We’ve launched the compaction API in beta, providing server-side context summarization for effectively infinite conversations.
- Anthropic: We’ve launched Claude Opus 4.6, our most intelligent model for complex agentic tasks and long-horizon work.
- Azure: GPT-Realtime-1.5 and GPT-Audio-1.5 models released