TBC's mischief 1 turns one image into a 5-second clip for $0.025 at 480p on fal and OpenRouter, a third of the next cheapest 720p rate. It is landscape only, 16 fps and silent, so it works as a cheap motion-sketch tool.
Microsoft's MAI Image 2.7 Preview debuted October 27 at No. 2 on the Artificial Analysis image editing board, 6 Elo behind GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst. It has no price or API yet. Here is how it compares, what rivals cost per edit, and how to test it.
ComfyUI v0.43.0 adds Kling 4.0, FLUX 3 Max video, PixVerse V6 Max, Mirelo sound effects and HeyGen voice cloning as Partner Nodes. The same 10-second 720p clip costs $0.58 in PixVerse V6, $0.61 in FLUX 3 Max until November 7, and $2.25 in Kling 4.0.
Krea 3 edits images in under 8 seconds at 2K for $0.06 each. It undercuts Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 2 but not Nano Banana 2.1, and speed is the real gain.
Claude Haiku 5.5 launched October 7 at $0.10 in and $0.50 out per million tokens, 90% under Haiku 4.5 for most jobs. Here is what that means per podcast show note, caption and browser chore, and when to pick Sonnet 5.5 instead.
Together Link puts Kimi K3, GLM 5.3 and the Flash models inside Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode. Priced on 13 real Opus 5.5 sessions, the Flash models save 92-96%, but Kimi K3 saves only 6% because cache reads decide the bill.
Comfy Agent launched October 1 on Comfy Cloud and bills Claude Opus 4.8 tokens at exactly Anthropic's list price. Priced from the agent's own recorded turns, a build-and-run turn costs $0.86 before GPU time, and local ComfyUI builds compile the agent out.
Comfy API deploys ComfyUI workflows as autoscaling endpoints. Its four GPU prices are exactly 1.30x Runpod Serverless flex rates, its idle window is a fixed 30 seconds, and our comfy build init test found public models queued for upload and node requirements the spec missed.
Ideogram 4.5 launched on 30 September as a multi-turn image editing model, $0.008 to $0.22 per image on fal. In Ideogram's own sample, 72.3% of untouched pixels are byte-identical, and the new ComfyUI nodes charge 1.43x fal's price on three tiers.
ComfyUI v0.38.0 adds eight Partner Node changes, from HY Image 3.5 to GPT-6 Sol, and drops Sora. The price badges in its source show every Recraft node now costs 1.43x Recraft's own API price, the same factor on every Claude and GPT chat model added since July.
Meituan's LongCat-2.5-Preview landed on 25 September with a 1M-token context, image and video input, and a free OpenCode tier. It costs $0.30 in and $1.20 out per million tokens direct, but Meituan has published no benchmarks yet.
Meta launched Meta One globally on 15 September 2026, putting AI image generation, AI video and Instagram Restyle behind eight tiers from $2.99 to $499 a month. The announcement names more than 50 features and not one generation limit.
Xiaomi cut MiMo-v2.5 API prices up to 99% effective May 27 across chat, image, audio, video understanding, and TTS, with OpenAI and Anthropic compatible endpoints.
Anthropic announced on March 13 that its full 1 million token context window is now generally available for Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 at standard API pricing. The company eliminated the long-context surcharge that previously added up to 100% to the cost of requests exceeding 200,000 tokens