{"id":380583,"date":"2026-10-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=380583"},"modified":"2026-10-21T05:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:27:11","slug":"nvidia-gets-an-even-bigger-boost-ai-tokens-fall-below-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/nvidia-gets-an-even-bigger-boost-ai-tokens-fall-below-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia gets an even bigger boost: AI tokens fall below $1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2026, AI token prices fell under $1 per million tokens. That drop is pulling more companies into coding, customer support, search, content generation, and automation, and it’s also keeping demand high for Nvidia and the rest of the AI hardware stack.<\/p>\n

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That’s Jevons paradox, plain and simple: when tokens get cheaper, people use more of them. In coding, customer support, search, content generation, and automation, a September 2026 pricing index came in at about $0.97 per million tokens<\/strong>, less than half its earlier peak. So chipmakers and cloud providers aren’t just backing costly demos anymore. They’re supplying everyday software.<\/p>\n\n

Nvidia H100 rental prices have held up, too. They dropped through 2024 and 2025, then market rates climbed about 40%<\/strong> from October 2025 into early 2026. By mid-2026, listings were still running from roughly $1.49 to $6.98 an hour, with median pricing around $2.95 to $3.46. One possible reason is that autonomous agents chew through tokens faster than people using these systems directly.<\/p>\n\n

If you track AI infrastructure, keep an eye on this. The whole trade still leans on usage growth<\/strong> staying ahead of falling token prices. If that changes, pressure could hit chipmakers, memory suppliers, cloud providers, utilities, and data-center developers. Recent worries about OpenAI revenue<\/a>, along with AI stock selloffs, gave a glimpse of that.<\/p>\n\n

You can already see the strain in High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), packaging, and power. Micron Technology has warned that demand could outstrip supply in 2027 and 2028<\/strong>, and model data-center electricity use rose by about 50% in 2025.<\/p>\n

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In 2026, AI token prices fell under $1 per million tokens. That drop is pulling more companies into coding, customer support, search, content generation, and automation, and it’s also keeping demand high for Nvidia and the rest of the AI hardware stack. That’s Jevons paradox, plain and simple: when tokens get cheaper, people use more … Continue reading “Nvidia gets an even bigger boost: AI tokens fall below $1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9350,"featured_media":380582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6771],"class_list":["post-380583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-ai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t