On October 26th, the Chinese Institute of Artificial Intelligence, among others, issued a joint publicationBig ModelThesaurus Service Performance Monitoring Report (2026). The report shows that, after two years of prices, domestic and foreign prices for large model services have risen significantly this year。
In this case, the national average price of large model services increased from $6.8 in the second half of 2025 to $13.46 since thenTHE INCREASE IS CLOSE TO 981 TP3T。In contrast, the average uniform price of a model published abroad since 2026 is approximately 117.8, still nearly nine times the domestic price。
Price increases have been accompanied by rapid growth in the use of large models. The report states that in June this year, the average daily consumption of Token in the country reached approximately 500 trillion, nearly four times the rate last December. Service performance has also improved, with the domestic model producing an average of 78.23 tokens in August of this year, doubling the average of 2025。