Tinker cuts prices up to 70% and adds GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash
According to Soumith Chintala on X citing Tinker, the company improved efficiency for long-context RL and announced price cuts up to 70% plus new GLM-5.3-Flash and DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash for cost-efficient long-context work.
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Tinker API announced efficiency improvements for long-context reinforcement learning on October 9, 2026, resulting in price cuts of up to 70 percent passed on to customers, according to a post by Soumith Chintala on X quoting the Tinker account.
The update states that greater purchase volumes yield larger savings, and that GLM-5.3-Flash and DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash are now live for cost-efficient long-context tasks, per the Tinker account on X.
Soumith Chintala
@soumithchintalaCofounded and lead Pytorch at Meta. Also dabble in robotics at NYU.