Ask HN: How do you track 2026 AI price wars? I built a tool to help
My goal was a neutral, minimalist utility in the vein of Time.is. We now track 44 models—including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Mistral, and Cohere—with hourly updates.
Key Features:
Real-Time Latency: We track TTFT benchmarks (e.g., Llama 3.1 at 28ms) alongside pricing.
Price Deltas: We track 24h market shifts; look for the ↑↓ indicators in the table to see how the 'AI Price War' is moving.
Multimodal Calculator: Handles Text, Audio, and Video tokens in a single UI.
100% Neutral: No affiliate bias or listing fees. Just raw data scraped hourly.
I’m not a developer by trade, so I used an agentic workflow to build the backend and scrapers. I found that being the 'product owner' rather than the 'coder' actually helped me focus on the data integrity and the specific multimodal features I needed for my own work.
I'd love to hear what other 2026 models or enterprise benchmarks the community would like to see indexed next!"