Pricing · AlphaWeekly digest · Week of April 14, 2026
AI Alpha · Week of April 14, 2026
Everything that moved in AI pricing this week · drops, free tiers, OSS releases, deprecations, and the hidden gem our algo flagged.
Price drops
New free tiers
Models that went open source
- Mistral Large 3 weights releasedMistral Research License · covers non-commercial use · commercial license via Mistral
- xAI confirmed Grok 2.5 open releaseLast-gen weights released under modified Apache 2.0
- Cohere Command R+ 2026 now Apache 2.0Full commercial rights on previous-generation weights
Benchmark movers
- Claude Opus 5 · SWE-bench Verified 78.2% (+4.5)Overtakes GPT-5 on coding · agentic eval improvements
- Qwen3.5 397B · GPQA Diamond 72.0% (+6.3)First open model above o3 on reasoning diamond subset
- Gemini 3 Flash · MMMU 78.4% (+5.2)Approaches Gemini 3 Pro on multimodal reasoning
Deprecations
- GPT-4 Turbo EOL · June 30OpenAI removing from API · migrate to GPT-5 mini or gpt-4.1
- Claude 3 Opus deprecation noticeAnthropic signaled removal on July 15 · Opus 5 is drop-in replacement
- Gemini 2.0 Pro retiredGoogle removed from Vertex · auto-redirect to Gemini 2.5 Pro
Best value this week
Hidden gem of the week
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Alibaba Qwen
Benchmark score 78.4 places this in the top tier, but mindshare is low · outside the OpenAI/Anthropic/Google trio. At $0.390/M input and 262,144 token context, it is the most underpriced capable model we tracked this week.
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