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Long-form writing and data analysis. Posted infrequently — but every piece starts from real numbers.
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DeepSeek V4-Pro and MiMo V2.5 price cuts: has the LLM API price war begun?
DeepSeek V4-Pro made its 75% discount permanent, while Xiaomi MiMo V2.5 announced permanent API price cuts of up to 99%. This is not a one-off promotion; it resets the lower bound for LLM API costs.
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Gemini 2.0 Flash is shutting down: 2026 API pricing and migration options
Google marks Gemini 2.0 Flash and 2.0 Flash-Lite for shutdown on June 1, 2026. This guide compares 2.5 Flash-Lite, 2.5 Flash, Gemini 3 Flash, and 3.1 Flash-Lite as migration paths.
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5 things that actually matter when picking an LLM API in 2026
Headline price doesn't matter much anymore. What actually moves the bill in 2026 is context efficiency, reasoning-token billing, cache hit rate, output speed, and the open-vs-closed source decision.
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