What changed in LLM hosting prices

Price cuts and rises, models and GPU instances added or withdrawn, new regions, retirements and the clouds' own announcements. Each item is found by comparing one collection of every cloud's price list with the one before it; none is written by hand.

The latest changes

4 October 2026: Hugging Face: new model autotrust/JEV-9B (8.95B, BF16), released 10 days ago, #293 by downloads
3 October 2026: Hugging Face: new model nvidia/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 (27.36B, NVFP4), released 28 days ago, #112 by downloads
3 October 2026: Hugging Face: new model openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B (2.52B, BF16), released 27 days ago, #73 by downloads
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud: GPU instance prices not in this collection; compared against the last collection that had them
2 October 2026: Core42 no longer sells k2-horizon-375b per token
2 October 2026: Core42 now sells gpt-6-sol per token from $2.20 in / $11.00 out per 1M in uae
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn9gc.8xlarge (1× L20N, 72 GB) in us-east-1 at $6.91/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn9gc.4xlarge (1× L20N, 72 GB) in us-east-1 at $6.71/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn9gc-8x.64xlarge (8× L20N, 576 GB) in us-east-1 at $53.67/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn9gc-4x.32xlarge (4× L20N, 288 GB) in us-east-1 at $27.64/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn9gc-2x.16xlarge (2× L20N, 144 GB) in us-east-1 at $13.82/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn8v.6xlarge (1× GPU H, 96 GB) in eu-central-1 at $7.73/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn8v.4xlarge (1× GPU H, 96 GB) in eu-central-1 at $7.31/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn8v-8x.48xlarge (8× GPU H, 768 GB) in eu-central-1 at $60.66/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn8v-8x.16xlarge (8× GPU H, 768 GB) in eu-central-1 at $58.49/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn8v-4x.8xlarge (4× GPU H, 384 GB) in eu-central-1 at $29.25/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn8v-4x.24xlarge (4× GPU H, 384 GB) in eu-central-1 at $30.94/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn8v-2x.8xlarge (2× GPU H, 192 GB) in eu-central-1 at $14.38/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn8v-2x.12xlarge (2× GPU H, 192 GB) in eu-central-1 at $15.47/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn8is.4xlarge (1× L20, 48 GB) in 9 regions at $2.47–$3.47/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn8is.2xlarge (1× L20, 48 GB) in 9 regions at $2.26–$3.17/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn8is-8x.32xlarge (8× L20, 384 GB) in 9 regions at $17.98–$25.27/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn8is-4x.16xlarge (4× L20, 192 GB) in 9 regions at $9.89–$13.90/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn8is-2x.8xlarge (2× L20, 96 GB) in 9 regions at $4.94–$6.95/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn7i-c8g1.2xlarge (1× A10, 24 GB) in 8 regions at $1.68–$2.86/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn7i-c56g1.14xlarge (1× A10, 24 GB) in 7 regions at $2.84–$4.85/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn7i-c48g1.12xlarge (1× A10, 24 GB) in 7 regions at $2.37–$4.04/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn7i-c32g1.8xlarge (1× A10, 24 GB) in 7 regions at $1.97–$3.37/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn7i-c32g1.32xlarge (4× A10, 96 GB) in 7 regions at $7.89–$13.47/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn7i-c32g1.16xlarge (2× A10, 48 GB) in 7 regions at $3.94–$6.74/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn7i-c16g1.4xlarge (1× A10, 24 GB) in 8 regions at $1.77–$3.03/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn7i-8x.32xlarge (8× A10, 192 GB) in 3 regions at $12.79–$16.40/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn7i-8x.16xlarge (8× A10, 192 GB) in 3 regions at $12.08–$15.49/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn7i-4x.8xlarge (4× A10, 96 GB) in 3 regions at $5.10–$7.74/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn7i-4x.16xlarge (4× A10, 96 GB) in 3 regions at $6.39–$8.20/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn7i-2x.8xlarge (2× A10, 48 GB) in 5 regions at $3.20–$5.23/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn6i-c8g1.2xlarge (1× T4, 16 GB) in 8 regions at $1.30–$1.82/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn6i-c4g1.xlarge (1× T4, 16 GB) in 8 regions at $1.12–$1.53/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn6i-c40g1.10xlarge (1× T4, 16 GB) in 6 regions at $3.04–$3.64/hr
2 October 2026: Alibaba Cloud added ecs.gn6i-c24g1.6xlarge (1× T4, 16 GB) in 8 regions at $2.13–$2.99/hr