Research

OpenAI and Anthropic API Price Index — August 2026

Release v2026.08.1 · Published · Coverage 2026-08-24 · Cadence Event-driven with versioned releases

A versioned research release containing normalized OpenAI and Anthropic API price records, source identifiers, methodology, machine-readable metadata, and a reusable provider-level chart bundle.

Research lead: Curtis Pyke (Kingy AI). Independence: Independently funded. No external funding or sponsorship; the work was conducted by Kingy AI. Curtis Pyke declared no relevant financial or personal conflicts for these research products.

Methodology

Preserves the source refresh as supplied and documents row-level variables and official-source capture lineage.

Population: The 212 normalized price records in the focused nine-offering OpenAI and Anthropic refresh.

Uncertainty: The migration does not rerun source acquisition; it inherits the source package timestamps, scope, and documented limitations.

Limitations

  • Not a market census
  • Prices and product terms can change
Horizontal bars show anthropic with 85 records and openai with 127 records.
Price records by provider. CSV data · SVG chart · PNG chart

Versioned downloads

Cite this research

Cite the exact files used with 10.5281/zenodo.22294483. Use the concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22288587 when referring to the evolving product across versions.

Research roles

  • Conceptualization
  • Data curation
  • Formal analysis
  • Methodology
  • Validation
  • Visualization
  • Writing – original draft

Disclosure and corrections

Curtis Pyke and Kingy AI controlled the questions, methods, analysis, conclusions, wording, and publication decision. No cash or in-kind consideration was received from the vendors or products covered by these research products. No covered vendor or other external interested party had prepublication review or veto rights.

AI systems assisted with research-product packaging, code generation, and validation. Curtis Pyke reviewed the release decisions and accepts accountability for the published work.

No independent external review was performed. Independence does not eliminate source incompleteness, archive gaps, interpretation error, or the documented methodological limitations.

Corrections will be documented in versioned errata or a new immutable release; released files will not be silently replaced.

Licenses: data CC BY 4.0; code MIT; content and charts CC BY 4.0.