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  "name": "AI Price Watch 2026: what AI providers state about prices, tiers, scheduled changes and model retirements",
  "author": "Vincent Wesley Couey, DeepSynthesis",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "landingPage": "https://nesyona.com/research/ai-price-watch-2026/",
  "seriesPage": "https://nesyona.com/articles/ai-price-changes-calendar-2026",
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  "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.23664178",
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   "candidates": "unverified, not for citation as provider facts"
  },
  "refresh": "Re-read weekly; each re-read rebuilds every file and this manifest. A changed SHA-256 means the file changed."
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