Spanvero logs the full AI cost landscape once a day and never overwrites it — an append-only, version-controlled time-series of what AI really costs to run. We sell no compute, so we've no reason to bend the number. Here's the record so far.
Market pulse: over the last 69 days, the cheapest paid way to run AI rose 23% (from $0.02 to $0.0245/1M). 34 price drops and 26 rises logged.
Monthly digest: State of Inference Costs — July 2026 →
Models tracked 412 | GPU SKUs 125 | Daily snapshots 69 | Tracking since June 20, 2026 |
| Date | Cheapest API | Cheapest GPU | Free | Models |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 27, 2026 | $0.0245/1M | $0.06/hr | 21 | 412 |
| August 26, 2026 | $0.0245/1M | $0.06/hr | 21 | 412 |
| August 25, 2026 | $0.0245/1M | $0.06/hr | 21 | 414 |
| August 24, 2026 | $0.02/1M | $0.06/hr | 22 | 417 |
| August 23, 2026 | $0.02/1M | $0.06/hr | 22 | 417 |
| August 22, 2026 | $0.02/1M | $0.06/hr | 22 | 416 |
| August 21, 2026 | $0.02/1M | $0.06/hr | 21 | 414 |
| August 20, 2026 | $0.02/1M | $0.06/hr | 20 | 409 |
| August 19, 2026 | $0.02/1M | $0.06/hr | 20 | 410 |
| August 18, 2026 | $0.02/1M | $0.06/hr | 19 | 408 |
| August 17, 2026 | $0.02/1M | $0.06/hr | 20 | 409 |
| August 16, 2026 | $0.02/1M | $0.06/hr | 19 | 408 |
| August 15, 2026 | $0.02/1M | $0.06/hr | 19 | 408 |
| August 14, 2026 | $0.02/1M | $0.06/hr | 18 | 406 |
431 real day-over-day moves detected across the tracked window.
The market index and price moves come from the live OpenRouter listing (the real, full market); per-model history is the dated price we publish for each model. We label which is which. How we stay honest →
The prices as portable files — same numbers, $0 markup, free to quote with a link back. Model prices as of 2026-08-24; GPU rates as of 2026-07-09.
prices.json · prices.csv · gpus.json · gpus.csv · the full feed →
Priced by Spanvero on 2026-08-24 — spanvero.com/data
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Prices logged daily; latest snapshot August 27, 2026. $0 markup, your own accounts, we never resell compute. © 2026 Cynosure LLC.
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