Research report 01 / Price and capability

AI Model Economics Index

Observed model prices, context windows, licenses, and release economics from verified launch records.

Public editionLive dataset
Priced models
2

11 verified launches

Median input
$17.50

Per million tokens

Median output
$87.50

Per million tokens

Largest context
1M

Disclosed tokens

Interactive figureModel economics
CSV JSON
Data status2 verified observations

Early sample. Read individual values rather than treating the pattern as a market trend.

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Coverage note

Coverage reflects verified model-launch records with publicly disclosed fields. Provider discounts, caching, batch pricing, and negotiated enterprise rates may differ.

Dataset ID
spd:model-economics
Coverage
2025-08-22/2026-08-18
Records
11
Fields
7
Formats
CSV / JSON
Updated

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The records behind the figure

CSV JSON
AI Model Economics Index data records
Release dateModelDeveloperInput / 1MOutput / 1MContextLicense
2025-08-22GPT-4b microOpenAI64000
2025-12-11GPT-5.2OpenAI262144
2025-12-16GPT Image 1.5OpenAI
2026-04-07Claude Mythos PreviewAnthropic25.000000125.0000001000000
2026-06-09Claude Fable 5Anthropic10.00000050.000000
2026-07-08GPT-LiveOpenAI
2026-07-16Kimi K3Moonshot1000000License requires companies operating a model-as-a-service business with > $20M total annual revenue (over 12 months) to enter a separate agreement with Moonshot before commercial use.
2026-08-10Muse GlimmerMeta131072Apache 2.0
2026-08-11Nemotron 3.5 LightningNvidia1000000OpenMDW-1.1
2026-08-12Qwen3.8-27B-CRACK-GGUFJinho Jang (dealign.ai)262000
2026-08-18GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI

Methodology

How to read this report

  1. 01Prices are normalized to the disclosed cost per one million tokens.
  2. 02A zero is shown only when a source explicitly records zero; undisclosed fields remain null.
  3. 03The index describes observed launch economics and does not infer quality equivalence between models.

Sources

Evidence

9 publishers supporting 12 records. Expand a publisher to inspect its cited pages.

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