Announcements
New models, upcoming launches, paused services, price changes and retirements are posted here first. Price changes are announced at least one day ahead.
October 2026
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New
Seedance 2.5 · 30s at a special price: $1.50 per 30-second video
Seedance 2.5 · 30s is billed per clip: a 30-second 720P video is a flat $1.50 (about $0.05 a second), about 68% less than per-second Seedance 2.5 at 720P, in 16:9 or 9:16. It is in Beta while we tune render speed and success rate.
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New
Seedance 2.0 · Clip at a special price: $1.00 per video
Seedance 2.0 · Clip is billed per clip: $1.00 whether it runs 5, 10 or 15 seconds. A 15-second video on per-second Seedance 2.0 (720P) costs $2.25, so this saves 56%. Output is 720P: 16:9 in 5 / 10 / 15 seconds, 9:16 at 15 seconds; up to 9 reference images, real-face references supported, native audio included. It is in Beta.
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Notice
We're moving to a new domain: kovapi.com
We're starting to use our new domain, kovapi.com. Your account, balance, API keys and prices stay the same, and the current API address (nezhagate.com) will keep working, so there's no code to change. We'll announce the switch date here and in our Telegram group ahead of time.
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Price change
New prices for six GPT models from October 5
From 10:00 Beijing time on October 5 (02:00 UTC): GPT-6 Astra $3 / $15, GPT-5.5 $1.5 / $9, GPT-5.6 Sol $1.2 / $6, GPT-5.6 Terra $0.6 / $3.6, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Sol $0.6 / $3 per 1M input / output tokens, still about 70% below the official list price. Both Luna models keep their prices.
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New
Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 are live
Claude Opus 5.5 ($2 / $10) and Claude Sonnet 5.5 ($1 / $5) are now available, with cache reads at $0.10 (all per 1M tokens). Both work through the OpenAI-compatible API and the native Anthropic API; effort, thinking summaries and structured output need the native /anthropic endpoint.
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New
Grok Imagine image generation and editing are live
Standard costs $0.005 and Quality $0.01 per image; 1K and 2K cost the same, and 4K is not offered. Editing costs the same as generation.
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Price change
New prices for DeepSeek and GLM-5.3
From 00:00 Beijing time on October 4 (16:00 UTC, October 3): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 cost $0.13 / $0.51 (cache reads $0.004) and GLM-5.3 costs $1.12 / $3.52 (cache reads $0.21), all per 1M tokens and still below the official list price.
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Price cut
Seedance 2.5 at 480P drops to $0.10 per second
Seedance 2.5 at 480P now costs $0.10 per second; 720P stays at $0.158 per second.
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New
Veo 3.1 and Gemini Omni Flash are live
Veo 3.1 opens its Fast tier: $0.20 per 8-second clip at 720p and $0.22 at 1080p. Gemini Omni Flash costs $0.05 per second, in 6, 8 or 10-second clips.
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Paused
Seedance 1080P is paused
1080P on Seedance 2.5 and Seedance 2.0 did not meet our success-rate bar, so it is paused; 480P and 720P are unaffected. We will post here when it is back.
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