Report: China LLM Prices Double in 2026 as Throughput Also Surges

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Monitoring data reveals that China's LLM service prices rebounded significantly in 2026 after a price war, while throughput (TPS) doubled compared to 2025. Despite performance gains, Time To First Token (TTFT) increased due to larger model scales, and significant performance disparities exist between third-party and official platforms.

LATEST/Monitoring data reveals that China's LLM service prices rebounded significantly in 2026 after a price war, while throughput (TPS) doubled compared to 2025. Despite performance gains, Time To First Token (TTFT) increased due to larger model scales, and significant performance disparities exist between third-party and official platforms.

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IT之家 · 智能时代T2·Oct 23, 11:5168 pts
Report: China LLM Prices Double in 2026 as Throughput Also Surges
- China's average LLM TPS reached 78.23 in 2026, doubling the 2025 average but still lagging behind typical foreign models.
- After a two-year price war, LLM service prices rose significantly in both domestic and international markets in 2026.
- The same open-source model can show nearly double the TPS difference across different third-party platforms, driven by varying inference optimizations.
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