NOV 3, 2026 · MAPLEHILL LABS · WEEKLY · MARKET
Model market week of November 2, 2026
The market this week
New in the index (3):
- GLM 5.3 FlashX Legal (Z.ai) — from $0.370/MTok input
- Particle-1 (Particle-ai) — from $0.050/MTok input
- Ternary Bonsai 2 9B (Prism-ml) — from $0.080/MTok input
Price moves — largest 8 of 34 observed moves:
- GLM 5.3 Flash input: $0.012 → $0.029/MTok (+137.5%)
- gpt-oss-20b input: $0.0040 → $0.0090/MTok (+125.0%)
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 output: $0.080 → $0.165/MTok (+107.0%)
- gpt-oss-20b output: $0.018 → $0.037/MTok (+105.6%)
- GLM 5.2 input: $0.030 → $0.0060/MTok (-80.2%)
- Gemma 4 26B A4B input: $0.024 → $0.040/MTok (+66.7%)
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 output: $1.20 → $1.98/MTok (+65.0%)
- GLM 5.2 output: $1.40 → $0.594/MTok (-57.6%)
Provider availability:
- GPT-6.1 Terra: now on Amazon Bedrock, CheaperInference, Azure
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: now on Decart, ModelRun, StepFun, Near AI, Cohere, Mistral, ModelRun, Particle AI, Venice; left Makora, Decart, ModelRun
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash: left Novita, Relace
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro: left Novita
- Grok 4.7: now on Amazon Bedrock
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: now on Decart; left Decart, ModelRun
- GLM 5.3: now on Io Net; left Tenstorrent, ModelRun
- Qwen3.8 27B: now on StreamLake, PrimeIntellect
Most-used models (OpenRouter tokens, trailing 7 days):
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 — 50.4T tokens
- GLM 5.3 Flash — 15.3T tokens
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash — 15.1T tokens
- Hy4 preview — 9.3T tokens
- GPT-6 Luna — 9.2T tokens
Measured note: z-ai/glm-4.5-air on cheaperinference sped up week-over-week — median TTFT 5.00s → 2.50s (≥3 daily probes each week).
Around the industry
- Google DeepMind announced Genie 4, a real-time interactive-simulation world model, on October 27, 2026, with limited trusted-tester access beginning immediately. [2]
- Anthropic announced research partnerships with six organizations developing medicines to accelerate drug development with Claude on October 27, 2026. [6]
- Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model focused on long-horizon engineering and cybersecurity, on October 28, 2026. [3]
- Google began providing Gemini 4 Carbon to selected cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program on October 28, 2026. [3]
- Google set Gemini 4 Carbon’s introductory API price at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens on October 28, 2026. [3]
- Google announced that Gemini 4 Carbon cached-input tokens would receive a 95% discount from the input-token price on October 28, 2026. [3]
- Google reported that its Gemma 4 open model generated a haiku aboard a satellite after receiving an uplinked prompt on October 30, 2026. [9]
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