As of October 19th, the token expenditure price remained around $0.95. Over the past week, this indicator first fell and then rose, currently still below $1, and has not yet escaped the downward trend since the end of May, although price volatility has narrowed. Based on the previous high for the year, the cumulative decline is still over 50%, reflecting the continued decrease in the unit token expenditure cost of AI models.
-------- 1. Price reductions by major models and users shifting from expensive cutting-edge models to cheaper open-source and smaller models have driven down the token price.
2. The current price decline may stimulate increased demand, which is beneficial to sectors such as AI applications. The impact on cloud vendors is complex, while for model vendors like OpenAI and Anthropic, the decline in pricing power is a risk factor.
3. Data comes from top global AI models such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.
