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OpenAI's $1 government pilot ends September 30. Its successor is a $0 licence and 50% off metered tokens, which agencies must fund against a ceiling on a stopgap budget while the Claude and Gemini deals expire the same day.
September 12, 2026 · 11 min read
Google began billing Memory Bank and Sessions on September 1, charging $0.30/GiB-month on total data stored including every revision. Memories carry no default TTL, so four months of agent state accumulated before the first metered invoice.
September 2, 2026 · 11 min read
Priced on one 10,000-conversation workload, the same agentic work costs $5,940 or $20,000 a month depending only on the billing unit. Per-resolution is the only meter where the vendor absorbs the 30x token variance instead of the buyer.
August 20, 2026 · 16 min read