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September 15, 2026 · 9 min readState of AI Token Pricing: September 2026 Benchmark Report
Comprehensive industry analysis across 30 frontier models: 44% annualized deflation in input token rates, widespread adoption of 90% prompt caching, and the emerging divide between reasoning deliberation and high-throughput utility inference.
✓Average input token price fell 44% year-over-year
✓Prompt caching read discounts averaged 82% across all 9 providers
✓Open-weights serverless inference reached an all-time low of $0.08/1M