The 2026 AI Price War: OpenAI & Anthropic Cut While DeepSeek Raises 1,100%
On August 14, 2026 the AI economics map inverted: OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna pricing substantially, Anthropic positioned Claude Opus 5 at roughly half the price of Fable 5, and DeepSeek raised V4 Pro API pricing by as much as 1,100% on some workloads while keeping V4 Flash cheap. The era of one-directional falling prices is over — and cost per completed task just became the metric that decides the market.