You checked your LLM API pricing last month. Maybe two months ago. You picked a model, budgeted around it, and moved on.
Here's the problem: the price you budgeted for might not be the price you're paying anymore.
Between January and June 2026, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google made 14 combined pricing changes across their model lineups. Some prices dropped. Some crept up. A few disappeared entirely when models got deprecated and replaced by pricier successors.
None of them sent you an email about it.
The changes nobody talks about
