Onchain inference market Surplus logs 60M requests in 28 days at 85.7% average discount
toptickcrypto · x · 2026-10-05
A tweet shares the public analytics dashboard of Surplus Intelligence, an onchain AI inference marketplace, showing real demand from buyers using credit cards rather than crypto rails:
- 28-day usage: 59,990,495 requests; 3.01T input tokens (of which 2.38T cache) and 55.4B output tokens
- Pricing: over the last 7 days, 92,281 eligible requests saw a mean realized discount of 85.7% vs direct provider pricing, median bucket 90%, peak bucket 95-100%
- Model mix: top volumes include deepseek-v4.1-flash, glm-5.3-flash, glm-5.3, gpt-5.6-luna and deepseek-v4-flash-0731
The data suggests the aggregator is capturing substantial non-crypto inference demand at steep discounts, with cache tokens dominating traffic.
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