Biggest threat to the AI trade: per-million-token prices fell 27% in a month
lilyraynyc · x · 2026-08-25
The biggest threat to the AI trade is deteriorating prices. Revenue is price times quantity: quantities look fine—despite open-source and Chinese competition, OpenAI and Anthropic keep adding businesses and token usage. But average cost per million tokens fell 27% over the past month, and OpenAI cut frontier model prices another 20% this week. Model companies must now drive volume even faster as prices fall to support their valuations.
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