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
Data status2 verified observations
Early sample. Read individual values rather than treating the pattern as a market trend.
Verified observationHover or focus any mark for exact valuesData and chart downloads share this dataset
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
| Release date | Model | Developer | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-22 | GPT-4b micro | OpenAI | — | — | 64000 | — |
| 2025-12-11 | GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | — | — | 262144 | — |
| 2025-12-16 | GPT Image 1.5 | OpenAI | — | — | — | — |
| 2026-04-07 | Claude Mythos Preview | Anthropic | 25.000000 | 125.000000 | 1000000 | — |
| 2026-06-09 | Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | 10.000000 | 50.000000 | — | — |
| 2026-07-08 | GPT-Live | OpenAI | — | — | — | — |
| 2026-07-16 | Kimi K3 | Moonshot | — | — | 1000000 | License 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. |
| 2026-08-10 | Muse Glimmer | Meta | — | — | 131072 | Apache 2.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | Nvidia | — | — | 1000000 | OpenMDW-1.1 |
| 2026-08-12 | Qwen3.8-27B-CRACK-GGUF | Jinho Jang (dealign.ai) | — | — | 262000 | — |
| 2026-08-18 | GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | — | — | — | — |
Methodology
How to read this report
- 01Prices are normalized to the disclosed cost per one million tokens.
- 02A zero is shown only when a source explicitly records zero; undisclosed fields remain null.
- 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.