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Pricing · AlphaWeek of October 12, 2026 · computed from live data

AI Alpha · Week of October 12, 2026

What moved in AI over the last 7 days, computed from BenchGecko's live data: price drops, new models, new benchmark results and attention shifts.

Price drops · 0

Nothing recorded this week.

New models · 4

New model: LFM2.5-24B-A2B by liquid2026-10-15
New model: Gemini 4 Argon by Google DeepMind2026-10-15
New model: Gemini 4 Argon (batch) by Google DeepMind2026-10-15
New model: Step 5 Preview by stepfun2026-10-15

Attention movers · 7 days

Gemini 4+2944 bps
Hermes Agent+1005 bps
Geoffrey Hinton+936 bps
Anthropic+744 bps
Simon Willison+595 bps

Best value · score per $1/M input

DeepSeek V4 Flash 073159.9 avg · $0.016 · 3,744 pts/$
GLM 5.264.3 avg · $0.020 · 3,215 pts/$
gpt-oss-20b45.0 avg · $0.018 · 2,500 pts/$
GLM 5.364.1 avg · $0.030 · 2,137 pts/$
Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct56.3 avg · $0.030 · 1,877 pts/$

Sources · OpenRouter list prices (changes that held a full day), model catalog, public benchmark leaderboards, Hacker News attention. Full changelog