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Model rates now vary by time of day and by date, and every price is traceable to the vendor's own pricing page.

Why

DeepSeek and several other vendors publish peak and off-peak rates for the same model. Splitrail had no way to express that: every request was priced at the peak (standard) rate regardless of when it happened, overstating off-peak cost.

Two related gaps came out of the same work:

  • A model's price could not change over time. The registry held one rate card per model, so a price rise silently repriced all of history.
  • Most of the registry carried no citation, and a few prices had drifted from what the vendors currently publish — there was no way to tell a stale number from a current one.

Peak/off-peak pricing

Time-of-day pricing is modelled as a multiplier over a model's base (peak) rates rather than a second full rate card. Every cost category — input, output, cache creation and cache reads — scales by the same factor, so the existing tiered, bracketed and caching logic is reused unchanged.

  • PeakWindow / TimeOfDayPricing, plus an optional time_of_day_pricing field on both ModelInfo and DatedPricing.
  • Pricing, caching and the multiplier resolve together through ResolvedPricing, so service-tier overrides inherit the schedule that applies to the request.
  • Usage with no timestamp is billed at peak, keeping the feature strictly opt-in and never silently discounting untimed usage.
  • An unknown IANA timezone falls back to UTC with a one-time warning; an invalid multiplier or a zero-length window causes the schedule to be skipped.
  • DeepSeek's schedule: peak 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC, Monday–Friday; half rate at every other hour, including the whole weekend.

Verified on real data

deepseek-v4-flash usage on 2026-07-12 (a Sunday) reports $0.053806452 — exactly half the peak-rate total of $0.107612904.

Multiple periods per model

A model's rates are no longer pinned to a single point in time.

  • add_dated_pricing! appends a period ending at an exclusive valid_until; the model's own pricing is the final period, covering every date after the last one. Any number of periods may be declared, in any order.
  • add_time_of_day_pricing! now takes an optional date, so each period can run its own peak/off-peak rule. A period without one falls back to the model-level schedule.
  • Periods may be declared in any order — the resolver picks the smallest valid_until still in force, so it does not depend on vector order.
  • The earliest period covers all of history before it, so the timeline never has a gap.

Duplicate periods are an error, not a coin flip

Two periods ending on the same date used to resolve by vector order, silently. Now:

  • built-in registrations panic with the model name and the date;
  • init_external_models refuses the model and logs the specific reason;
  • a period-scoped override (a schedule or a service-tier rate) naming a date with no period is likewise an error, instead of the previous silent no-op that quietly dropped the override.

valid_until is an exclusive upper bound, so the boundary date belongs to the newer period — ≤2026-06-01 and 2026-06-01 ≤ are adjacent, not overlapping.

Registry backfill and sources

  • Added GLM-5.3 / 5.3-Flash / 5.2, Kimi K3 and K2.7 Code, Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.7-Max, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Step-3.7-Flash, plus provider-prefixed aliases.

  • Replaced third-party citations (OpenRouter, qwencloud, anotherwrapper) with the vendors' own pages.

  • Corrected prices that had drifted:

    model was now
    gpt-5.5 long-context cached input 1.25 1.00
    gpt-4o-2024-05-13 output 10.00 15.00
    step-3.5-flash cache hit missing added
    solar-pro-3 cached input missing added
    doubao-seed-2.0-code one flat rate Volcano Ark's input-length brackets

How every price is cited

Repeating one vendor URL above all 127 models is noise, so the file keeps its existing convention: one // Source: line per vendor section, directly under the section header. That line is the vendor's canonical price list and covers every rate in the section — including dated periods and service tiers, which are published on the same page. The convention is documented on populate_defaults so it does not have to be re-derived.

An entry gets its own // Source: line only when its price comes from a different page. 27 do:

  • retired models that keep a per-model page after being dropped from the main table — o1-preview, o1-mini, codex-mini-latest, gpt-5.1-codex, gpt-5.1-codex-mini, gpt-5.1-codex-max, gpt-5.2-codex;
  • a model served by another provider — gpt-oss-safeguard-120b (Amazon Bedrock);
  • the OpenRouter router labels (auto), which are not on a model page.

22 models are retired, cloaked or subscription-only, and no vendor publishes a price for them. They are labelled unavailable (<reason>) rather than citing a third party or leaving the figure unattributed:

gpt-4.5, gpt-5-codex-mini, claude-3-7-sonnet, claude-3-5-sonnet, claude-3-opus, claude-3-haiku, gemini-3-pro-preview-11-2025, gemini-2.0-pro-exp-02-05, gemini-2.0-flash, gemini-2.0-flash-lite, gemini-1.5-flash, gemini-1.5-flash-8b, gemini-1.5-pro, deepseek.v3.2, mimo-v2-omni, kimi-k2.5, qwen3.5-35b-a3b, qwen3.7-flash, longcat-flash-lite, aurora-alpha, hf:zai-org/GLM-4.6, hf:MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2

Worth deciding separately whether these should stay in the registry at all.

Currency caveat

StepFun and Volcano Ark publish CNY only. Those entries use the file's existing 7 CNY-per-USD conversion, documented in the source comments.

Verification

cargo build
cargo test                      # 472 passed
cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo doc --no-deps
cargo fmt --all -- --check
  • All 22 distinct source URLs were checked over HTTP and resolve.
  • The DeepSeek peak/off-peak schedule and both models' peak rates were re-confirmed against the official page: "Off-peak rates are half of the peak rates. Peak hours are 01:00 - 04:00 and 06:00 - 10:00 UTC, Monday through Friday."
  • Five new tests cover the period machinery: several periods each taking effect from unsorted input, the exclusive boundary, per-period schedules with model-level fallback, duplicate end dates being rejected, and an unknown period date being a hard error.

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The model registry adds peak/off-peak pricing schedules, validates schedule data, applies time-based multipliers to cost calculations, and expands the model catalog with new rates, promotional pricing, aliases, and source metadata.

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Pricing and model catalog

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Schedule contracts and validation
src/models.rs
Adds PeakWindow and TimeOfDayPricing, attaches schedules to model pricing, validates schedule values, and updates registry macros.
Multiplier resolution and cost application
src/models.rs
Resolves timezone-aware pricing multipliers and applies them to input, output, cache, and total cost calculations.
Model catalog and aliases
src/models.rs
Adds model entries, dated promotional pricing, provider aliases, source metadata, rate changes, and DeepSeek weekday schedules.
Pricing and schedule tests
src/models.rs
Tests tiered rates, aliases, promotional transitions, peak and off-peak windows, timezone handling, service-tier propagation, and invalid schedules.

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  participant CostCalculator
  participant PricingResolver
  participant ScheduleMatcher
  CostCalculator->>PricingResolver: request pricing for date and service tier
  PricingResolver->>ScheduleMatcher: evaluate timezone and usage instant
  ScheduleMatcher-->>PricingResolver: return peak or off-peak multiplier
  PricingResolver-->>CostCalculator: return ResolvedPricing
  CostCalculator->>CostCalculator: apply multiplier to token costs
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…or every price

Model rates now vary by time of day and by date, and every price is traceable to
the vendor's own pricing page.

Peak/off-peak pricing
- Model a schedule as a multiplier over a model's base (peak) rates rather than
  a second rate card, so input, output, cache creation and cache reads all scale
  by the same factor and the existing tiered, bracketed and caching logic is
  reused unchanged.
- `PeakWindow` / `TimeOfDayPricing`, plus an optional `time_of_day_pricing`
  field on `ModelInfo` and on `DatedPricing`.
- Pricing, caching and the multiplier resolve together through
  `ResolvedPricing`, so service-tier overrides inherit the schedule that applies
  to the request.
- Usage with no timestamp is billed at peak, keeping the feature opt-in and
  never silently discounting untimed usage.
- An unknown IANA timezone falls back to UTC with a one-time warning; an invalid
  multiplier or a zero-length window causes the schedule to be skipped.
- DeepSeek's published schedule: peak 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday to
  Friday; half rate at every other hour, including the whole weekend.

Multiple periods per model
- `add_dated_pricing!` appends a period ending at an exclusive `valid_until`; the
  model's own `pricing` is the final period, covering every date after the last
  one. Any number of periods may be declared, in any order, so a model's rates
  are no longer pinned to a single point in time.
- `add_time_of_day_pricing!` now takes an optional date, so each period can run
  its own peak/off-peak rule; a period without one falls back to the model-level
  schedule.
- Two periods ending on the same date are rejected instead of being resolved by
  vector order: built-in registrations panic, and `init_external_models` refuses
  the model with a specific reason. A period-scoped override naming a date with
  no period is likewise an error rather than a silent no-op.

Registry backfill and sources
- Add GLM-5.3 / 5.3-Flash / 5.2, Kimi K3 and K2.7 Code, Qwen3.8-Max and
  Qwen3.7-Max, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Step-3.7-Flash, plus provider-prefixed
  aliases.
- Replace third-party citations (OpenRouter, qwencloud, anotherwrapper) with the
  vendors' own pages.
- Cite a source for every price, using one `// Source:` line per vendor section.
  That line is the vendor's canonical price list and covers all of the section's
  rates, including dated periods and service tiers, which are published on the
  same page. The convention is documented on `populate_defaults`.
- Give an entry its own `// Source:` line only when its price comes from a
  different page: retired models that keep a per-model page, or models served by
  another provider (OpenAI weights on Amazon Bedrock). 27 entries carry one.
- Label the 22 retired, cloaked or subscription-only models that no vendor
  publishes a price for as `unavailable (<reason>)`.
- Correct prices that had drifted from the published rates:
  - gpt-5.5: long-context cached input is 1.00, not 1.25
  - gpt-4o-2024-05-13: output is 15.00, not 10.00
  - step-3.5-flash: add the missing cache-hit rate
  - solar-pro-3: add the missing cached-input rate
  - doubao-seed-2.0-code: use Volcano Ark's input-length brackets rather than a
    single flat rate

Verified: 472 tests pass, clippy clean under `-D warnings`, docs build, fmt
clean.

Signed-off-by: jimyag <git@jimyag.com>
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