AI token prices sink to fresh lows amid fierce competition
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The LLM Token Expenditure Index fell to 97 cents—the lowest since its inception—as cheaper open-source models and dynamic pricing push AI token costs downward, potentially pressuring provider revenues even as demand remains robust, following OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 price cuts and frontier labs’ flexible pricing.
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