Reports

The State of AI Cost

Dated, citable snapshots of where AI pricing is heading: index moves, the biggest price changes, the cheapest models, and what the community is actually spending. One per month.

State of AI Cost, October 2026

Oct 1, 2026

The Frontier index sits at $4.64 per million tokens, unchanged. The lowest blended price on record is perplexity/pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 at $0.0075 per million tokens. 10 models changed price. The community tracked $6690.56 of AI spend across 5 contributors. 5 developers synced coding-agent usage worth $8286.39 at API list prices; the median developer's was $1.02.

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State of AI Cost, September 2026

Sep 1, 2026

The Frontier index sits at $4.64 per million tokens, unchanged. The lowest blended price on record is nscale/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct at $0.015 per million tokens. 10 models changed price. The community tracked $308.25 of AI spend across 6 contributors. 6 developers synced coding-agent usage worth $58.96 at API list prices; the median developer's was $1.83.

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State of AI Cost, August 2026

Aug 1, 2026

The Frontier index sits at $4.64 per million tokens, unchanged. The lowest blended price on record is nscale/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct at $0.015 per million tokens. 10 models changed price. The community tracked $371.72 of AI spend across 6 contributors.

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State of AI Cost, July 2026

Jul 1, 2026

The Frontier index sits at $4.64 per million tokens, unchanged. The lowest blended price on record is nscale/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct at $0.015 per million tokens. 10 models changed price. The community tracked $435.62 of AI spend across 5 contributors.

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State of AI Cost, June 2026

Jun 16, 2026

The Frontier index sits at $4.64 per million tokens, unchanged. The lowest blended price on record is nscale/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct at $0.015 per million tokens. 9 models changed price. The community tracked $193.95 of AI spend across 3 contributors.

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