# Frontier API Prices Fell Again in August as Anthropic Made a Promotional Rate Permanent

Google cut Gemini 3.7 Flash to $0.75 and $3.75 per million tokens on 13 August, weeks after OpenAI dropped its value tier to $0.20 and $1.20.

- Published: 2026-08-30T06:24:05.945Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-30/frontier-api-prices-fell-again-in-august-as-anthropic-made-a
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Developers Digest](https://www.developersdigest.tech/blog/frontier-model-api-pricing-june-2026), [BenchLM](https://benchlm.ai/google/api-pricing), [Anthropic News](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5)

Three repricing moves in five weeks have reset the floor for frontier model access. On 30 July OpenAI cut the cheaper tiers of its GPT-5.6 family, taking Terra to $2.00 per million input tokens and $12.00 output, matching Gemini 3.1 Pro exa…

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