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- Week 36, 2026·Aug 24 – Aug 30·5 leaders · 25 sources
The week AI vendors stopped averaging the heavy user into one price
OpenAI split Business into a $20 seat and a $100 seat; Vercel cut Connect's included quota to 500 requests and raised the unit rate tenfold; Cohere put Parse 5 on $4.00/hr instances. Usage, credits and tokens carry 28% of AI monetization in our index.
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