AI model weekly: Week ending October 4, 2026 — Switchyard lands

Developers must prioritize service reliability as critical outages at Kimi and OpenAI disrupt core workflows, outweighing recent price fluctuations. Simultaneously, the introduction of high-context models from NVIDIA and OpenAI offers new architectural options despite ongoing volatility in provider pricing structures.

Outages & incidents

• HeyGen — Video Agent Outage · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Deepseek V4.1 Flash (impact: minor) · status
• Cursor — Investigating service degradation — Grok Bot and Review Agents (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for GLM 5.3 Fast (impact: minor) · status
• Kimi (Moonshot AI) — 搜索请求出现大量报错 (impact: critical) · status
• Kimi (Moonshot AI) — 搜索请求出现大量报错 (impact: critical) · status
• Kimi (Moonshot AI) — 搜索请求出现大量报错 (impact: critical) · status
• OpenAI / ChatGPT — Issues with data analysis and file creation in ChatGPT (impact: minor) · status
• Lovable — Issues with previews, remix, and static asset serving · status
• OpenAI / ChatGPT — Issues with login, signup, and ads (impact: major) · status
• Kimi (Moonshot AI) — 搜索请求出现大量报错 (impact: critical) · status
• Claude (Anthropic) — Delayed credits on the Claude Platform (impact: minor) · status

Reliability watch

• ElevenLabs: 68 failed and 46 degraded checks out of 5035
• OpenAI / ChatGPT: 27 failed and 1386 degraded checks out of 5035
• Kimi (Moonshot AI): 19 failed and 5 degraded checks out of 5035
• Cursor: 0 failed and 151 degraded checks out of 5035
• Claude (Anthropic): 0 failed and 122 degraded checks out of 5035

Price changes

• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek): $0.85 / $5.00 → $0.55 / $4.20 (-16%)
• Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI): $0.72 / $13.00 → $0.72 / $14.00 (+8%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek): $0.55 / $4.20 → $0.85 / $5.00 (+19%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.0504 / $8.00 → $0.10 / $8.00 (0%)
• Hy3 (Tencent): $0.13 / $0.53 → $0.0825 / $0.33 (-37%)
• Hy4 preview (Tencent): $0.83 / $2.50 → $0.75 / $2.25 (-10%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek): $0.85 / $5.00 → $0.55 / $4.20 (-16%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.064 / $8.00 → $0.0504 / $8.00 (0%)
• GLM 5.2 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.38 / $3.49 → $0.064 / $8.00 (+129%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek): $0.55 / $4.20 → $0.85 / $5.00 (+19%)
• Qwen3.8 27B (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.42 / $3.00 → $0.42 / $2.55 (-15%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek): $0.33 / $4.20 → $0.55 / $4.20 (0%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek): $0.17 / $4.20 → $0.33 / $4.20 (0%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek): $0.17 / $1.94 → $0.17 / $4.20 (+116%)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek): $0.22 / $4.20 → $0.17 / $1.94 (-54%)

New models

• Switchyard — NVIDIA · — / — · 1000K ctx
• Ling 3.1 Flash — inclusionAI · Free / Free · 262K ctx
• Pareto 26.10 Preview — Unbiased · $0.80 / $3.20 · 1049K ctx
• GPT-6.1 Sol Pro — OpenAI · $2.00 / $10.00 · 1050K ctx
• GPT-6.1 Sol — OpenAI · $2.00 / $10.00 · 1050K ctx
• Claude Sonnet 5.5 — Anthropic · $2.00 / $10.00 · 1000K ctx

Deprecations & removals

• Space Bunny Alpha retires on 2026-10-05
• Qwen3 30B A3B retires on 2026-10-09
• Qwen3 14B retires on 2026-10-09
• Qwen3 30B A3B retires on 2026-10-09
• Qwen3 30B A3B retires on 2026-10-09
• Qwen3 30B A3B retires on 2026-10-09
• Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking retires on 2026-10-09
• Laguna S 2.1 retires on 2026-10-31
• Laguna XS 2.1 retires on 2026-10-31
• GLM 4.7 retires on 2026-12-31
• GLM 4.5 retires on 2026-12-31
• R1 Distill Llama 70B was removed from the catalog

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