AI model daily brief: September 30, 2026 — Kimi K3 gets cheaper

OpenAI reports minor latency and error spikes, while Qwen and Kimi maintain high reliability with negligible degradation. Significant price adjustments include a 33% drop for Kimi K3 and mixed fluctuations for GLM 5.2 and Qwen3.8, alongside upcoming deprecations for Space Bunny Alpha and Qwen3 30B.

Outages & incidents

• OpenAI / ChatGPT — Elevated latency for some API requests (impact: minor) · status
• OpenAI / ChatGPT — Elevated error rates for ChatGPT Pro and Plus users (impact: minor) · status
• OpenAI / ChatGPT — Elevated errors in ChatGPT Space Pages (impact: minor) · status

Reliability watch

• OpenAI / ChatGPT: 0 failed and 517 degraded checks out of 719
• Qwen (Alibaba Cloud): 0 failed and 4 degraded checks out of 719
• Kimi (Moonshot AI): 0 failed and 3 degraded checks out of 719
• ElevenLabs: 0 failed and 2 degraded checks out of 719
• StepFun: 0 failed and 2 degraded checks out of 719

Price changes

• Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI): $3.00 / $15.00 → $0.28 / $10.00 (-33%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.41 / $3.99 → $0.32 / $3.99 (0%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.62 / $3.99 → $0.41 / $3.99 (0%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.52 / $3.99 → $0.62 / $3.99 (0%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.52 / $4.79 → $0.52 / $3.99 (-17%)
• Gemma 4 26B A4B (Google): $0.09 / $0.30 → $0.0765 / $0.26 (-15%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.52 / $3.99 → $0.52 / $4.79 (+20%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.43 / $3.99 → $0.52 / $3.99 (0%)
• Qwen3.8 27B (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.0249 / $4.35 → $0.42 / $3.00 (-31%)
• Qwen3.8 27B (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.0249 / $2.99 → $0.0249 / $4.35 (+45%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.36 / $3.99 → $0.43 / $3.99 (0%)
• Qwen3.8 27B (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.0249 / $4.35 → $0.0249 / $2.99 (-31%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.30 / $3.99 → $0.36 / $3.99 (0%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.41 / $3.99 → $0.30 / $3.99 (0%)
• Hy3 (Tencent): $0.13 / $0.53 → $0.0825 / $0.33 (-37%)

Deprecations & removals

• Space Bunny Alpha retires on 2026-10-05
• Qwen3 30B A3B retires on 2026-10-09

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