https://tokencost.app/blog/artificial-analysis-index-v4-3-cost-per-point TokenCost en 2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z Every model measured across both rewrites of the industry's most-quoted leaderboard lost between 12.3 and 18.1 points in four days, and not one of them changed. The ruler did, twice, and it moved cost per point by 154% for one model and 290% for another. https://tokencost.app/blog/mercury-2-5-pricing-discount-expiry TokenCost en 2026-09-07T00:00:00.000Z At 07:00 UTC tomorrow the cheapest model we can price goes up 5.00x, and the number that replaces it is not new. It is the card Inception has charged for Mercury 2 since March, with a fifth off the input line and nothing off the output line.