Published July 9, 2026 · data June 20, 2026 → July 9, 2026 (20 daily snapshots) · live edition — extends with each daily snapshot until the next report ships
What running AI actually cost this month — computed straight from Spanvero's append-only daily price record, the same data you can download. No estimates, no smoothing: every figure carries its date.
Daily snapshots 20 Jun 20 → Jul 9 | Prices logged 8,766 rows appended to the log | Models tracked 339 live market, latest day | Real price moves 44 25 cuts · 19 rises |
Between June 20, 2026 and July 9, 2026, Spanvero logged 8,766 prices across 20 daily snapshots: the full live market listing (339 priced models on the latest day), 83 GPU rental rates, and the dated per-model prices Spanvero publishes. The log is append-only — a day, once written, is never revised.
The floor held. The cheapest paid model on the market cost $0.02 per 1M blended tokens on June 20, 2026 (inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash) and $0.02/1M on July 9, 2026 (still inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash) — no meaningful move at the bottom of the market.
Above the floor, prices did move: 44 real day-over-day changes cleared our 0.5% noise threshold — 25 cuts against 19 rises. The largest single move was Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507, rising from $0.1 to $0.8223/1M on July 1, 2026 (+722%); the largest cut was Nex AGI: Nex-N2-Pro, from $1.5 to $0.625/1M on June 23, 2026 (−58%).
On the rental side, the cheapest tracked GPU went from $0.26/hr on June 20, 2026 (NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB) to $0.06/hr on July 9, 2026 (NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB). Read that with care: our GPU coverage grew from 10 to 83 SKUs over the window, and the new floor comes from a card that entered the record mid-window — so much of that drop is wider tracking, not vendor repricing. Like-for-like — only the SKUs tracked for the whole window — the floor held at $0.26/hr (NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB).
Finally, the market ended the window 3 models larger than it began (entries minus exits), and truly-free endpoints ($0 in, $0 out) held at 27.
Single-day changes on the live market listing, largest first — 44 in this window. The full feed lives on the price record.
| Name | Before | After | Change | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | $0.1/1M | $0.8223/1M | +722% | Jul 1 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 | $0.24/1M | $0.845/1M | +252% | Jul 2 |
| Nex AGI: Nex-N2-Pro | $1.5/1M | $0.625/1M | −58% | Jun 23 |
| MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 | $0.525/1M | $0.3/1M | −43% | Jun 26 |
| Anthropic Claude Sonnet Latest | $9/1M | $6/1M | −33% | Jul 1 |
| Z.ai: GLM 5.1 | $2.03/1M | $2.6375/1M | +30% | Jun 30 |
| Tencent: Hy3 | $0.5/1M | $0.36/1M | −28% | Jul 9 |
| Qwen: Qwen3 8B | $0.225/1M | $0.286/1M | +27% | Jul 2 |
| MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 | $0.6/1M | $0.45/1M | −25% | Jun 26 |
| TheDrummer: Rocinante 12B | $0.3/1M | $0.375/1M | +25% | Jun 24 |
Window-start vs window-end change in the dated price Spanvero publishes per model — each links to that model's live cost page. 12 of 62 tracked models moved.
| Name | Before | After | Change | Last changed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 (entered Jun 23) | $0.24/1M | $0.845/1M | +252% | Jul 7 |
| Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct | $0.61/1M | $1.01/1M | +66% | Jun 23 |
| MiniMax M2.5 (entered Jun 23) | $0.525/1M | $0.3/1M | −43% | Jun 30 |
| MiniMax M2.7 (entered Jun 23) | $0.625/1M | $0.45/1M | −28% | Jun 30 |
| Qwen3-8B (entered Jun 23) | $0.225/1M | $0.286/1M | +27% | Jul 7 |
| GLM 5.2 (entered Jun 23) | $2.5/1M | $1.8823/1M | −25% | Jul 7 |
| gpt-oss-120b | $0.11/1M | $0.09/1M | −18% | Jun 30 |
| DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | $0.32/1M | $0.34/1M | +6.2% | Jun 23 |
| Phi-4 (entered Jun 23) | $0.1025/1M | $0.105/1M | +2.4% | Jun 30 |
| GLM 5.1 | $2.03/1M | $2.001/1M | −1.4% | Jul 7 |
Hourly rates that changed over the window, per tracked SKU — each links to that card's rate page.
| Name | Before | After | Change | Last changed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA A100 40GB | $1.10/hr | $1.99/hr | +81% | Jul 3 |
| NVIDIA H200 141GB | $3.49/hr | $4.39/hr | +26% | Jul 3 |
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB | $0.36/hr | $0.27/hr | −25% | Jul 3 |
| NVIDIA H100 80GB SXM | $2.69/hr | $3.29/hr | +22% | Jul 3 |
| NVIDIA L40S 48GB | $0.86/hr | $0.99/hr | +15% | Jul 3 |
| NVIDIA L4 24GB | $0.43/hr | $0.39/hr | −9.3% | Jul 3 |
Sources, labeled: the market floor and single-day moves come from the live OpenRouter listing (the full market); published-model rows are the dated prices Spanvero publishes; GPU rates are the vendors' own posted prices. We sell no compute and mark nothing up. How we stay honest →
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Spanvero, “State of Inference Costs — July 2026” (data 2026-06-20 → 2026-07-09) — spanvero.com/reports/inference-costs-2026-07/
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