AI model weekly: Week ending October 18, 2026 — Pareto 26.10 lands

MiniMax is experiencing major LLM errors while Runway undergoes critical maintenance, requiring immediate attention for production stability. Developers should also review significant price reductions for Z.ai and Tencent models alongside new releases from xAI and Google to optimize cost and capability.

Outages & incidents

• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Qwen 3.8 Max (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Qwen 3.8 Max (impact: minor) · status
• Runway — Scheduled Maintenance (impact: critical) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Qwen 3.8 Max (impact: minor) · status
• Fireworks AI — Service Degradation for Qwen 3.8 Max (impact: minor) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status
• MiniMax — Elevated errors on Large Language Models (LLM) (impact: major) · status

Reliability watch

• ElevenLabs: 104 failed and 4 degraded checks out of 4887
• Cursor: 60 failed and 390 degraded checks out of 4887
• DeepSeek: 36 failed and 0 degraded checks out of 4888
• SambaNova: 35 failed and 43 degraded checks out of 4887
• Together AI: 17 failed and 9 degraded checks out of 4887

Price changes

• GLM 5.3 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.079 / $1.80 → $0.079 / $1.40 (-22%)
• Hy3 (Tencent): $0.13 / $0.53 → $0.0825 / $0.33 (-37%)
• Hy4 preview (Tencent): $0.83 / $2.50 → $0.75 / $2.25 (-10%)
• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek): $0.0648 / $0.14 → $0.04 / $0.14 (0%)
• GLM 5.3 (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.079 / $4.80 → $0.079 / $1.80 (-62%)
• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek): $0.10 / $0.30 → $0.0049 / $0.45 (+50%)
• Gemma 3 27B (Google): $0.08 / $0.45 → $0.08 / $0.35 (-22%)
• Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 (Qwen (Alibaba)): $0.10 / $0.30 → $0.09 / $0.30 (0%)
• Hy3 (Tencent): $0.0825 / $0.33 → $0.13 / $0.53 (+60%)
• Hy4 preview (Tencent): $0.75 / $2.25 → $0.83 / $2.50 (+11%)
• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek): $0.0113 / $0.30 → $0.10 / $0.30 (+1%)
• GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai (Zhipu)): $0.15 / $0.50 → $0.048 / $0.20 (-60%)
• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek): $0.15 / $0.60 → $0.0648 / $0.14 (-76%)
• Hy3 (Tencent): $0.13 / $0.53 → $0.0825 / $0.33 (-37%)
• Hy4 preview (Tencent): $0.83 / $2.50 → $0.75 / $2.25 (-10%)

New models

• Pareto 26.10 — Unbiased · $0.80 / $3.20 · 1049K ctx
• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 — DeepSeek · $0.15 / $0.60 · 1049K ctx
• Glimpse — Elorian · $0.60 / $3.00 · 262K ctx
• Beam 1.0 501B A23B — Reflection · $1.00 / $3.00 · 1049K ctx
• Grok 4.20 0309 Reasoning — xAI · $1.25 / $2.50 · 1000K ctx
• Moondream 3.1 — Moondream · $0.30 / $2.50 · 32K ctx
• Moondream 3 Preview — Moondream · $0.30 / $2.50 · 32K ctx
• Muse Spark Open — Meta · $1.25 / $4.25 · 1049K ctx
• Nemotron 3.5 Super VL — NVIDIA · $0.10 / $0.40 · 1049K ctx
• Pareto 26.9 — Unbiased · $2.50 / $7.50 · 262K ctx
• LFM2.5-24B-A2B — Liquid · $0.05 / $0.70 · 128K ctx
• Gemini 4 Argon — Google · $2.00 / $10.00 · 1049K ctx
• Extract — Scaledown · $0.04 / Free · 1000K ctx
• Summarize — Scaledown · $0.04 / Free · 1000K ctx
• Muse Wonder — Meta · $4.00 / $20.00 · 1049K ctx

Deprecations & removals

• Pareto 26.10 Preview retires on 2026-10-14
• Pareto 26.10 Preview retires on 2026-10-15
• Claude Sonnet 4 retires on 2026-10-15
• GLM 4.7 retires on 2026-12-31
• Ling 3.0 Flash Fin was removed from the catalog
• Ling 3.0 Flash Sante was removed from the catalog
• Pareto was removed from the catalog
• Claude Sonnet 4 was removed from the catalog
• Pareto 26.10 Preview was removed from the catalog

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