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Executed. DeepSeek's price rise, announced with a date and a table on 2026-08-14, takes effect at 16:00 UTC today, and both V4 rows have been re-pointed from the old flat rate to the new PEAK column. deepseek-v4-flash moves from $0.0028 cache-hit / $0.14 cache-miss / $0.28 output per 1M to $0.014 / $0.44 / $1.32; deepseek-v4-pro moves from $0.003625 / $0.435 / $0.87 to $0.044 / $1.32 / $3.96. That is 4.71x and 4.55x on output respectively, and 12.1x on pro's cache-hit input — the largest single multiple in the table. Two things a consumer of this feed should know, because the schema has one price field and DeepSeek now publishes two. First, we carry PEAK because DeepSeek presents peak as the price and off-peak as half of it, not the reverse — so the fields are the ceiling, and the OFF-PEAK rate is exactly half on every axis. Second, peak is the minority of the day: 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, 7 hours of 24, so a workload that does not care when it runs pays the half rate for 17 hours a day. The legacy deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner aliases are NOT affected and keep their old figures: they were retired 2026-07-24 15:59 UTC, three weeks before this schedule began, so it never applied to them.

DeepSeek's pricing page has replaced the undated warning it carried since at least 2026-08-01 — 'We plan to raise the overall pricing for DeepSeek API services in the near future, with a significant increase expected' — with a dated schedule. From 16:00 UTC on August 16, 2026 the API moves to peak/off-peak billing, with off-peak rates stated as half the peak rates; peak hours are 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, so 7 of every 24 hours are peak and the rest are off-peak. Per 1M tokens, deepseek-v4-flash goes from $0.0028 cache-hit / $0.14 cache-miss / $0.28 output to OFF-PEAK $0.007 / $0.22 / $0.66 and PEAK $0.014 / $0.44 / $1.32 — 4.71x on peak output and 2.36x even off-peak. deepseek-v4-pro goes from $0.003625 / $0.435 / $0.87 to OFF-PEAK $0.022 / $0.66 / $1.98 and PEAK $0.044 / $1.32 / $3.96 — 4.55x on peak output, and 12.1x on peak cache-hit input, the largest single multiple in the table. This entry is the ANNOUNCEMENT; the executed re-point is the separate 2026-08-16 entry, where the catalog fields moved to the PEAK column, since DeepSeek presents peak as the price and off-peak as half of it. Caught by scripts/check-pricing-prose.mjs, which diffs a provider’s own sentences rather than its tables — the change was invisible to every rate diff we run, because on 2026-08-14 not one published number had moved yet.

Google's release notes for August 13, 2026 make Gemini 3.7 Flash (gemini-3.7-flash) generally available, calling it 'our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents' with substantial improvements across software engineering, web development and agentic workflows. Specs: 1,048,576-token context, 65,536 max output, text/image/video/audio/PDF in and text out, thinking at low/medium/high ('minimal' returns an error), batch, flex and priority inference all supported. Google publishes no knowledge cutoff, and the deprecations table announces no shutdown date. The pricing is the part worth reading carefully: paid-tier Standard is $0.75 in / $3.75 out per 1M with context caching at $0.075/1M — but only 'through December 31, 2026'. From January 1, 2027 the same page states $1.50 / $7.50 / $0.15, exactly double on all three axes, and Google's own release note calls the current rate an introductory price. That makes 3.7 Flash identical in price to gemini-3.6-flash today and identical again after the cutover. Anyone budgeting off today's number is budgeting off a rate with a published expiry date; our fields carry the in-force column and a dated ticket moves them on the boundary.

Anthropic's deprecations table now states Current state = Retired for claude-opus-4-1-20250805, with Deprecated June 5, 2026 and Retirement August 5, 2026 — exactly the date announced two months earlier. Calls to claude-opus-4-1-20250805 (and the claude-opus-4-1 alias) no longer serve; Anthropic's recommended replacement is claude-opus-4-8. Opus 4.1 was $15 in / $75 out per 1M tokens, 200K context, 32K max output. Caught by scripts/check-lifecycle-drift.mjs on 2026-08-06 — the provider's declared status flipped while our catalog still read 'deprecated'. Worth noting for anyone building on rate data: this event is invisible to a price diff, because the price never changed — the endpoint simply stopped existing.