Reports / 2026-08-15
The compute market on Aug 15
The Index closed at 120.2, +1.5% on the previous close. No list-price provider changed a published rate — a quiet day, recorded as one. 960 observations across 16 providers and 20 parts.
Index close
120.2
Repricings
0
Widest spread
5.9×
NVIDIA H100 SXM
Median spot discount
44%
17 parts
Known price events
- 2026-09-01 — Claude Sonnet 5 introductory pricing ends. $2/$10 per MTok returns to $3/$15 — a rare published price increase, and one we will record on both sides. source (verified 2026-08-10)
- Date TBA — DeepSeek has pre-announced an API price increase. Their own docs flag a significant increase without naming a date. We hold the before/after and will timestamp it when it lands. source (verified 2026-08-11)
Biggest median moves
Every figure above is recomputed from that day’s recorded observations — nothing here is written by a model or taken from a news feed. Scheduled events are hand-verified against the company’s own page, with the date checked. Methodology.