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What moved in AI inference

Name: Inference Index — AI inference pricing and intelligence
Creator: Inference Index
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: AI, LLM, inference, pricing, intelligence, benchmark, market data

A day-by-day digest of the AI model market — pricing deltas, frontier churn, and biggest movers. Each entry is built from the same snapshot you can pull via the JSON API.

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Market snapshot at $1.09 II-C

II-C

$1.09

II-I

57.2

Avg IQ

45.73

Models

frontierGemini 3.1 Pro Preview at IQ 57.2, best input $1.27/1M
medianinput $0.240 · output $1.02 · cheapest $0.030 (Qwen 3.5 9B)