AI API pricing index -September 2026
Output generation, not prompt ingestion, is commonly the higher list-price component.90%Median cache discountAcross 57 comparable records. Methodology.Chart 4Where does token-only comparison stop working?Token-priced67 recordsTiered / long-context16 recordsNon-token components13 recordsLegacy status6 recordsRetired status4 recordsSource: AICostBudget AI API Pricing Dataset. The population is 80 public pricing records at the 2026-09-29 cutoff.NormalizationComparable text-token scalars are normalized to USD per 1M tokens.
- ▪Output generation, not prompt ingestion, is commonly the higher list-price component.90%Median cache discountAcross 57 comparable records.
- ▪Methodology.Chart 4Where does token-only comparison stop working?Token-priced67 recordsTiered / long-context16 recordsNon-token components13 recordsLegacy status6 recordsRetired status4 recordsSource: AICostBudget AI API Pricing Dataset.
- ▪The population is 80 public pricing records at the 2026-09-29 cutoff.NormalizationComparable text-token scalars are normalized to USD per 1M tokens.
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| Original publisher | Aicostbudget |
| Canonical URL | https://aicostbudget.com/en/research/ai-api-pricing-index-september-2026 |
| Publication time | Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:59:09 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-30T17:07:02.072Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-30T17:07:02.072Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 3oXTRdeEZmLM · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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