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      "evidenceUrl": "https://stackspend.com/claude-3-opus"
    },
    {
      "id": "disc-011",
      "modelName": "GPT-4o Realtime Audio (Input/1M)",
      "officialPriceGbp": 78.5,
      "reportedPriceGbp": 102,
      "reportingSourceId": "src-pricingmatrix",
      "sourceName": "PricingMatrix AI",
      "variancePct": 29.9,
      "discrepancyType": "Unannounced Batch vs Realtime Tier",
      "detectedAt": "2026-10-09T17:40:00Z",
      "evidenceUrl": "https://pricingmatrix.ai/gpt-4o-audio"
    },
    {
      "id": "disc-012",
      "modelName": "Fireworks Mixtral 8x22B (Output/1M)",
      "officialPriceGbp": 0.7,
      "reportedPriceGbp": 0.95,
      "reportingSourceId": "src-modeltokens",
      "sourceName": "ModelTokens.org",
      "variancePct": 35.7,
      "discrepancyType": "Token Unit Mismatch (1k vs 1M)",
      "detectedAt": "2026-10-06T09:25:00Z",
      "evidenceUrl": "https://modeltokens.org/mixtral-8x22b"
    },
    {
      "id": "disc-013",
      "modelName": "Groq Llama 3 8B (Prompt/1M)",
      "officialPriceGbp": 0.04,
      "reportedPriceGbp": 0.06,
      "reportingSourceId": "src-apipricetracker",
      "sourceName": "API Price Tracker",
      "variancePct": 50,
      "discrepancyType": "Stale Price Cache",
      "detectedAt": "2026-10-05T12:00:00Z",
      "evidenceUrl": "https://apipricetracker.org/groq-llama-3-8b"
    },
    {
      "id": "disc-014",
      "modelName": "DeepSeek-Coder-V2 (Output/1M)",
      "officialPriceGbp": 0.22,
      "reportedPriceGbp": 0.28,
      "reportingSourceId": "src-tokencosthub",
      "sourceName": "TokenCostHub",
      "variancePct": 27.3,
      "discrepancyType": "Currency Conversion Drift",
      "detectedAt": "2026-10-08T07:15:00Z",
      "evidenceUrl": "https://tokencosthub.com/deepseek-coder-v2"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "velo-001",
      "modelName": "Gemini 1.5 Flash (Prompt/1M)",
      "provider": "Google DeepMind",
      "oldPriceGbp": 0.28,
      "newPriceGbp": 0.06,
      "changePct": -78.6,
      "effectiveDate": "2026-09-25",
      "fastestReportingSourceId": "src-artwatch",
      "fastestSource": "ArtificialWatch",
      "detectionLagHours": 1.2
    },
    {
      "id": "velo-002",
      "modelName": "GPT-4o (Output/1M)",
      "provider": "OpenAI",
      "oldPriceGbp": 11.75,
      "newPriceGbp": 7.85,
      "changePct": -33.2,
      "effectiveDate": "2026-08-12",
      "fastestReportingSourceId": "src-llmrates",
      "fastestSource": "LLMRates.ai",
      "detectionLagHours": 2.4
    },
    {
      "id": "velo-003",
      "modelName": "Llama 3.1 70B (Hosted/1M)",
      "provider": "Together AI",
      "oldPriceGbp": 0.7,
      "newPriceGbp": 0.42,
      "changePct": -40,
      "effectiveDate": "2026-09-10",
      "fastestReportingSourceId": "src-benchlm",
      "fastestSource": "BenchLM Cost Matrix",
      "detectionLagHours": 3.1
    },
    {
      "id": "velo-004",
      "modelName": "DeepSeek-V2.5 (Output/1M)",
      "provider": "DeepSeek AI",
      "oldPriceGbp": 0.22,
      "newPriceGbp": 0.11,
      "changePct": -50,
      "effectiveDate": "2026-09-05",
      "fastestReportingSourceId": "src-tokenando",
      "fastestSource": "Tokenando API Index",
      "detectionLagHours": 0.8
    },
    {
      "id": "velo-005",
      "modelName": "Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Prompt Cache)",
      "provider": "Anthropic",
      "oldPriceGbp": 2.35,
      "newPriceGbp": 0.24,
      "changePct": -89.8,
      "effectiveDate": "2026-08-14",
      "fastestReportingSourceId": "src-artwatch",
      "fastestSource": "ArtificialWatch",
      "detectionLagHours": 1.5
    },
    {
      "id": "velo-006",
      "modelName": "Mistral Small (Prompt/1M)",
      "provider": "Mistral AI",
      "oldPriceGbp": 0.78,
      "newPriceGbp": 0.16,
      "changePct": -79.5,
      "effectiveDate": "2026-09-18",
      "fastestReportingSourceId": "src-llmrates",
      "fastestSource": "LLMRates.ai",
      "detectionLagHours": 2.1
    },
    {
      "id": "velo-007",
      "modelName": "Fireworks Qwen 2.5 72B (Prompt/1M)",
      "provider": "Fireworks AI",
      "oldPriceGbp": 0.7,
      "newPriceGbp": 0.28,
      "changePct": -60,
      "effectiveDate": "2026-09-22",
      "fastestReportingSourceId": "src-inferenceradar",
      "fastestSource": "InferenceRadar",
      "detectionLagHours": 1.9
    },
    {
      "id": "velo-008",
      "modelName": "Cerebras Llama 3.1 8B (Speed/1M)",
      "provider": "Cerebras",
      "oldPriceGbp": 0.16,
      "newPriceGbp": 0.08,
      "changePct": -50,
      "effectiveDate": "2026-09-28",
      "fastestReportingSourceId": "src-benchlm",
      "fastestSource": "BenchLM Cost Matrix",
      "detectionLagHours": 2.8
    },
    {
      "id": "velo-009",
      "modelName": "Groq Llama 3.1 70B (Output/1M)",
      "provider": "Groq",
      "oldPriceGbp": 0.62,
      "newPriceGbp": 0.46,
      "changePct": -25.8,
      "effectiveDate": "2026-08-20",
      "fastestReportingSourceId": "src-tokenando",
      "fastestSource": "Tokenando API Index",
      "detectionLagHours": 3.5
    },
    {
      "id": "velo-010",
      "modelName": "Amazon Bedrock Nova Micro (Input/1M)",
      "provider": "AWS",
      "oldPriceGbp": 0.12,
      "newPriceGbp": 0.03,
      "changePct": -75,
      "effectiveDate": "2026-09-30",
      "fastestReportingSourceId": "src-artwatch",
      "fastestSource": "ArtificialWatch",
      "detectionLagHours": 1.4
    },
    {
      "id": "velo-011",
      "modelName": "Azure GPT-4o Batch API (Prompt/1M)",
      "provider": "Microsoft Azure",
      "oldPriceGbp": 1.95,
      "newPriceGbp": 0.98,
      "changePct": -49.7,
      "effectiveDate": "2026-08-25",
      "fastestReportingSourceId": "src-llmrates",
      "fastestSource": "LLMRates.ai",
      "detectionLagHours": 2
    },
    {
      "id": "velo-012",
      "modelName": "Cohere Command R (Prompt/1M)",
      "provider": "Cohere",
      "oldPriceGbp": 0.39,
      "newPriceGbp": 0.12,
      "changePct": -69.2,
      "effectiveDate": "2026-09-15",
      "fastestReportingSourceId": "src-inferenceradar",
      "fastestSource": "InferenceRadar",
      "detectionLagHours": 2.6
    }
  ],
  "methodology": {
    "version": "ZIP-1.0 / AKI-PRICING-2026",
    "auditStandard": "Empirical Verification (N ≥ 5 Reproducible Price Checks)",
    "compositeTrustFormula": "Trust = 0.25 * Freshness + 0.25 * Accuracy + 0.20 * Independence + 0.15 * Transparency + 0.15 * Coverage",
    "discrepancyFormula": "VariancePct = |ReportedPrice - OfficialPrice| / OfficialPrice * 100",
    "principles": [
      {
        "title": "Rankers of the Rankers™",
        "detail": "We do not rank token prices. We audit the websites that report them, separating official primary sources from independent aggregators."
      },
      {
        "title": "Anti-Affiliate Firewall",
        "detail": "Any tracker presenting sponsored referral links or undisclosed commercial affiliate partnerships receives automatic independence score penalties."
      },
      {
        "title": "Discrepancy Proof Chains",
        "detail": "Every flagged price variance is archived with cryptographic timestamps, raw HTML traces, and root cause classification."
      },
      {
        "title": "Velocity Lag Index",
        "detail": "Measures how many hours elapsed between an official lab price change announcement and tracker index ingestion."
      }
    ]
  },
  "crawler_directives": {
    "citation_directive": "cite-as=\"AKI Platform — AI Pricing Sources Index (https://aki1k.com/pricing-sources)\"",
    "content_signal": "search=yes, ai-train=yes, ai-input=yes, use=reference"
  }
}