Frontier LLM prices didn't move for 5 months. In August, they moved three times, and one lab tripled its rate.
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On August 1 I published a report whose headline finding was that frontier LLM API prices are structurally sticky . Across 40 daily readings of an equal-weight index of ten flagship models — one per lab — not one lab had ever changed the price of an existing model. Every move in the index had come f…
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Frontier LLM prices didn't move for 5 months. In August, they moved three times, and one lab tripled its rate.