AI model daily brief: October 3, 2026 — DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 gets cheaper

Developers should note significant price reductions for Z.ai and Tencent models alongside a major cost increase for DeepSeek V4 Pro, while Cursor experiences minor service degradation. These shifts directly impact operational budgets and reliability planning for production workflows.

Outages & incidents

• Cursor — Investigating service degradation — Grok Bot and Review Agents (impact: minor) · status

Reliability watch

• Cursor: 0 failed and 18 degraded checks out of 720

Price changes

• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek): $0.0188 / $1.28 → $0.0152 / $1.28 (0%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.41 / $3.99 → $0.25 / $3.49 (-13%)
• Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI): $0.74 / $13.00 → $0.64 / $13.00 (0%)
• GLM 5.3 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $1.40 / $4.40 → $0.22 / $3.39 (-23%)
• Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI): $0.99 / $13.00 → $0.74 / $13.00 (0%)
• Hy3 (Tencent): $0.13 / $0.53 → $0.0825 / $0.33 (-37%)
• Hy4 preview (Tencent): $0.83 / $2.50 → $0.75 / $2.25 (-10%)
• Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI): $2.70 / $13.50 → $0.99 / $13.00 (-4%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek): $0.66 / $1.98 → $0.22 / $4.20 (+112%)
• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek): $0.0171 / $1.28 → $0.0188 / $1.28 (0%)
• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek): $0.0139 / $1.28 → $0.0171 / $1.28 (0%)
• Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.10 / $0.30 → $0.0482 / $0.19 (-36%)
• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek): $0.0077 / $1.28 → $0.0139 / $1.28 (0%)
• Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot AI): $0.43 / $1.83 → $0.95 / $4.00 (+119%)
• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek): $0.0051 / $1.28 → $0.0077 / $1.28 (0%)

Deprecations & removals

• Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking retires on 2026-10-09

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