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PRICING BRIEFINGDaily · Sep 15, 2026
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PRICE INCREASE

MindsDB hikes Blaze rates up to 183% one day after adding it to the rate card

MindsHub Blaze (Cerebras) rates rose across the board: input from $0.35 to $0.99, output from $0.75 to $1.49, cached from $0.35 to $0.99 per 1M tokens — a jump of up to 183% on the cached rate.

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WHY IT MATTERS

For usage-billed AI infrastructure, a same-week reprice right after a model launch suggests vendors are using intro pricing as a customer-acquisition hook rather than a stable rate — watch whether MindsDB's other recently-added models (GPT-OSS 120B, DeepSeek V4 Flash, GLM 5.3) get the same treatment in the coming weeks.

BY THE NUMBERS

  • Cached Blaze rate rose 183%, from $0.35 to $0.99 per 1M tokens
  • Blaze was added to the rate card just 1 day before this repricing
  • 19 real pricing changes in the last 365 days, about one every 10 days
  • Credits & usage billing changes are 11% of all pricing moves tracked in the last 180 days

THEIR RATIONALE

MindsDB isn't explaining the hike, but the timing tells the story: Blaze was only added to the rate card the day before at its now-superseded intro price. This reads as a launch-then-reprice move — bring a new model onto the card cheap, then correct it to market rate within 24 hours — while the looser Air free-tier cap is framed as a usability improvement rather than a cost giveaway.

TRACK RECORD19 changes since Mar 9, 202619 in the last 12 monthsa change every ~10 daysprevious change 1 days ago

THE SIGNAL

MindsDB has touched its rate cards or plan structure 19 times in the last year — average one change every 10 days — and this is its second change in two days, following yesterday's addition of four more models to the rate card. Credits-and-usage-billing moves like this are 11% of all pricing changes tracked across the index in the last 180 days, making MindsDB one of the more frequent movers in a category otherwise led by HubSpot and Datadog.

CREDITS & USAGE BILLING336 companies in the last 6 months11% of 5,509 tracked changes8× on MindsDB's pageHubSpot most often (28)
FREE PLANS216 companies in the last 6 months5.4% of 5,509 tracked changes4× on MindsDB's pageLambdatest most often (6)
PRICE INCREASES164 companies in the last 6 months3.5% of 5,509 tracked changes1× on MindsDB's pageXways most often (6)

IN CONTEXT

MindsDB added MindsHub Blaze to its rate card on Sep 14 at $0.35/$0.75/$0.35 per 1M tokens, then repriced it up to $0.99/$1.49/$0.99 the very next day — a same-week launch-then-hike that follows four more models added to the card that same day. It fits a company that has restructured pricing six times and touched usage billing eight times since March, averaging a change every 10 days. Usage-billing moves like this make up 11% of all pricing changes tracked across the index in the past 180 days, well behind only HubSpot (28 mentions) and Datadog (12) in frequency.