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OpenAI dropped GPT-5.6 Sol list pricing 20% on input and 33% on output on 21 August 2026. Vercel rebased its 50% discount to $2/$10 the same day. Cloudflare's 19 August page still shows $2.50/$15.
Manu Shukla 
Vercel's 19 August 2026 changelog quotes Fish Audio text-to-speech at $15.00 per million characters. Fish Audio's own rate card says per million UTF-8 bytes. For Hindi or Chinese the two are not the same number.
Manu Shukla 
In 2026, 98% of FinOps teams manage AI spend, and LLM prices span more than 140x from budget to frontier. An AI gateway with cost-aware routing and caching cuts that bill 40-70% without downgrading quality. How eCorpIT
Manu Shukla 
Five AI gateways, three real cost levers, and one decision. This 2026 comparison of LiteLLM, Cloudflare AI Gateway, Kong, Bifrost and OpenRouter covers routing, semantic caching, budgets, and where each one should run
Manu Shukla 
Strategic optimisation can cut LLM costs by 60 to 80 percent. Seven AI cost tools, from observability with Langfuse to prompt compression with LLMLingua, that engineering teams use to cut token spend in 2026.
Manu Shukla 