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News posts from the AIHubMix team.

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  DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: Same Price, Shorter Outputs. Should You Switch?

  On Saturday, October 17, 2026, DeepSeek swapped the model behind its deepseek-flash API name for a new checkpoint, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017. The price did not move, the context window did not move, and the calling method did not move. What changed is the model: DeepSeek reports double-digit gains on terminal and program-building benchmarks, and says the new checkpoint finishes tasks faster with shorter outputs. The short answer: if you run coding agents or tool-heavy workflows on the September

  October 19, 20267 min readNews
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  Free Qwen3.8 Max and Flash API on AIHubMix: Limits, End Date, and Your First Call

  Alibaba's flagship Qwen3.8 Max and its fast sibling Qwen3.8 Flash are free to call on AIHubMix right now. The free model IDs are qwen3.8-max-free and qwen3.8-flash-free, and both cost $0 per million tokens for input and output. GMI Cloud is funding the campaign. It went live on October 14, 2026 (Pacific Time) and runs for 30 days, so until around November 13, or until the campaign credits run out, whichever comes first. The free IDs follow the same rules as every other AIHubMix free model: 10

  October 16, 20266 min readNews
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  Gemini 4 Argon: Frontier Scores, a 1M-Token Output Limit, and How to Call It Now

  Gemini 4 Argon is Google's first Gemini 4 model and its strongest so far. Independent testers put it level with GPT-6 Astra, it tops the Vals Index for finance, legal and tax work, and it can write up to 1M tokens in a single answer. It also costs less per token than Astra, even after its introductory price ends. Argon became generally available on October 13, 2026. Google's announcement opened it to developers and enterprises through the paid Gemini API, Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, and to

  October 13, 20269 min readNews
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  What Is Mistral Large 4? A Trillion-Parameter Specialist from Europe

  Mistral Large 4 is Mistral AI's new flagship. It has about one trillion parameters, it is trained from scratch in Europe, and its open weights are due at the end of October 2026. It isn't the smartest model available. What makes it notable is that it leads in a few areas where closed flagships either refuse or fall behind: defensive security work, locating objects in images, and legal research agents. Mistral released it on October 6, 2026 as a public preview. Its nickname is "Le Chonk". This

  October 9, 20266 min readNews
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  Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Haiku 4.5: What Ten Cents Now Buys

  Claude Haiku 4.5 scored 0.0% on Terminal-Bench 4.0. Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 39.2%, and it costs a tenth as much per token: $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, against $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5. That is the upgrade in one line. The small Claude model went from "fine for classification, not for agents" to a usable subagent, and its price now matches OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna to the cent. Anthropic released it on October 7, 2026 as Claude Haiku 5.5, model ID claude-haiku-5

  October 8, 20268 min readNews
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  GPT-6.1 Sol vs GPT-6 Sol: A One-Week Upgrade That Nearly Catches Astra

  OpenAI shipped GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay on September 29, 2026. The timing is striking: GPT-6 Sol had been out for exactly one week (it launched September 22 alongside Luna), and the flagship GPT-6 Astra was less than a month old. The official model page sums up the pitch in one line: "Near-Astra performance for complex work at a lower cost." Concretely, that means agentic coding, computer use, and professional tasks at roughly Astra quality, for one fifth of Astra's per-token price. This post ans

  September 30, 20267 min readNews
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  GLM-5.3-Flash Pricing Compared: OpenRouter, Z.ai, and AIHubMix

  GLM-5.3-Flash pricing on OpenRouter, Z.ai, and AIHubMix, including OpenRouter's 5.5% platform fee and cache-ratio cost examples.

  September 1, 20264 min readNews
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  Building the Agent Economy: AIHubMix and FluxA Announce Strategic Collaboration

  At AIHubMix, we believe the next phase of artificial intelligence will be defined not only by what models can understand, but also by what AI agents can responsibly accomplish. That is why we are announcing a strategic collaboration with FluxA, an agent-native payment infrastructure provider focused on wallets, identity, authorization, service monetization, and payments for autonomous systems. Together, AIHubMix and FluxA are working to connect two essential layers of the Agent Economy: access

  August 21, 20263 min readNews
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  GPT-5.6 Sol API Pricing: 50% Off on AIHubMix and OpenRouter

  GPT-5.6 Sol is currently 50% off on AIHubMix and OpenRouter, but OpenRouter adds a 5.5% Pay-as-you-go platform fee. Compare the real final cost.

  August 19, 20265 min readNews
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  GLM-5.3 Pricing Compared: OpenRouter, Z.ai, and AIHubMix

  GLM-5.3 has quickly become one of the most interesting models for coding and long-horizon agent work. But the price you pay depends heavily on where you access it. The official Z.ai API and OpenRouter currently list the model at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens. AIHubMix offers a separate coding-glm-5.3 preview route at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.22 per million output tokens. That is a dramatic difference. It is also not a simple apples-to-apples co

  August 19, 20263 min readNews