Grok 4.6 API Pricing: The 200K Cliff and When 4.5 Wins

Grok 4.6 costs $2/$6 per 1M tokens until your prompt hits 200K, then every token doubles. Measured against Grok 4.5, including the per-request overhead.

Pi Coding Agent Custom Provider: Setup, Cost, and 3 Fixes

Pi reports $0 for every session on a custom provider, and reasoning models 500 on Anthropic routes. Both are config, not bugs. Tested on pi 0.84.1.

DeepSeek API Price Increase: Up to 12x, Peak Hours (2026)

DeepSeek's new API prices went live 2026-08-16 16:00 UTC. Cache hits jumped 12x on V4 Pro, output 4.7x on Flash. Peak hours, new rates, and the bill math.

DeepSeek Harness (dsh): Version, Updates, Stability (2026)

DeepSeek Harness (dsh) is on 0.1.1-rc.2. Development restarted 2026-08-24 and GitHub now tags releases npm has not published. Pin before you build.

Codex "Couldn't Load Its Resources": 5 Causes to Fix (2026)

Codex extension won't start? The 26.803.41515 regression broke 5 different ways. Fixed in 26.810.41047, but the error message still hides two of them.

Run Qwen 3.8 27B Locally: GGUF Downloads and Memory Requirements

Plan Qwen3.8-27B on a 16 GB GPU or RTX 5080: compare GGUF sizes, short-context setup, CPU offload and errors without confusing file size with VRAM.

DeepSeek Harness (dsh) Setup: Run Any Model in It (2026)

DeepSeek Harness runs as a web app, not a TUI. Install it, point it at any OpenAI-compatible gateway, and know what breaks first. Tested 2026-08-14.

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Price, Open Weights, Benchmarks (2026)

V4 Pro 0813 scores 53 on Artificial Analysis at $0.06 per task, 5x under GLM-5.2. MIT weights are now public. Peak/off-peak pricing starts 2026-08-16.

GLM 5.3: Benchmarks, API Access, and Public Weights (2026)

The GLM 5.3 API is open at $1.4 in / $4.4 out, same price as 5.2. 1M context, 128K output, Terminal Bench 3.0 4.6 to 28.3, public weights checked September 9.

How to Use Seedance 2.5 (2026): Prompts, Timestamps, Cost

Seedance 2.5 takes 30-second clips, 50 reference assets, and integer-second timestamps. The official spec, three real API runs, and what each clip billed.