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AI API Price Index changelog

This log records material changes to the public Kingy.ai AI API Price Index. Every published data release has a stable release ID and SHA-256 manifest.

kapi-price-index-2026-08-23T042959Z — initial public release

  • Published 40 exact offerings across eight access providers.
  • Published 218 component price records supported by 45 official public sources.
  • Added first-party and managed-cloud route separation.
  • Added distinct records for documented standard, batch, fast, cache and context-tier prices.
  • Added a public hold ledger with 10 withheld claims; four carry conflict status.
  • Removed unsupported Grok Build Batch price records. Grok Build 0.1 remains accepted only for its documented standard on-demand identities.
  • Corrected release metadata for publication while preserving all 218 accepted RC3 price records byte-for-byte at the data level.
  • Published five reproducible chart datasets and a representative workload of one million input plus 250,000 output tokens.
  • Licensed the dataset and generated charts under CC BY 4.0.

Integrity manifest: SHA256SUMS in the versioned download directory.

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