Touchstone Assay
Dated SIU — SIU-2026a
$0.0089
09 Sep 2026 provisional
Published late — 1 earlier attempt failed before this print was produced:
  • 09 Sep 2026 at 04:34 UTC — No adapter for provider "xai": XAI_API_KEY not set (0 of 0 qualified, $0 spent)
Registry changed since the previous print — admitted: claude-sonnet-5, grok-4.6, claude-haiku-4-5. See the registry inclusion policy in the methodology for why. Of the $0.0040 move since the previous print, +$0.0031 is attributable to this composition change and +$0.0009 to movement among the 7 constituents present in both prints — a mechanical split, not a judgement of cause.
▲ +81.6% since 08 Sep 2026 — More expensive than the previous print.
Equal weighting, disclosed: basket costs span 35.8× across the 10 qualifying constituents. 4 of 10 constituents (40%) sit at or above the mean basket cost and together account for 79% of the summed basket cost Dated SIU is computed from — equal weighting still gives each of them the same 1÷10 nominal share. Dated SIU therefore tracks the more expensive end of the basket more closely than a demand-weighted index would. See the methodology's Weighting section, and Frontier SIU / Commodity SIU, the tier prints published alongside this one for exactly this reason.

Exchange-rate table

ModelUSD / SIUSpread to indexSIU per $1
deepseek-v3.2 $0.0018 -80% 551.2
llama-3.3-70b-deepinfra $0.0007 -92% 1415.0
mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct $0.0007 -93% 1534.5
qwen-2.5-72b-instruct $0.0025 -72% 399.4
claude-sonnet-5 $0.0234 +164% 42.7
gpt-5.1 $0.0090 +2% 110.5
gemini-3.1-pro-preview $0.0204 +130% 49.0
grok-4.6 $0.0171 +93% 58.3
claude-haiku-4-5 $0.0076 -14% 130.7
gpt-5.4-mini $0.0053 -40% 188.0

Floor & market spread

Not yet published — the floor needs a measured hardware-rental rate for the reference configuration, which this print does not yet include.

Sensitivity

The print recomputed under alternative cache and batch-discount policies, so the effect of those policy choices is stated rather than hidden inside one number.

Policy variantDated SIUDeltaApplies to
cache-enabled: 40% of T2 input at 10% of input price $0.0063 -29.0% deepseek-v3.2, llama-3.3-70b-deepinfra, mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct, qwen-2.5-72b-instruct, claude-sonnet-5, gpt-5.1, gemini-3.1-pro-preview, grok-4.6, claude-haiku-4-5, gpt-5.4-mini
batch-discount: 50% off input and output $0.0044 -50.0% deepseek-v3.2, llama-3.3-70b-deepinfra, mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct, qwen-2.5-72b-instruct, claude-sonnet-5, gpt-5.1, gemini-3.1-pro-preview, grok-4.6, claude-haiku-4-5, gpt-5.4-mini

Methodology, signature & anchor

Methodology
v0-draft
Cost of production
$1.4075
Signature
0xfad1f977…18e870f7
Public key
0x030c598e…e25cb299
Anchor tx
0x8abee0b8…ea14b57f (base-sepolia)
Raw runs
https://github.com/petrkrulis2022/dated-siu-inference/tree/main/data/runs/2026-09-09

Dated SIU is an assessment of qualifying inference work under this basket version, model/provider configuration and quality gate — not a prediction of production agent costs, which vary with workflow design, tool reliability, retry policy and context handling.

Verify this yourself

Don't take this page's word for it — every value below is checkable independently.

Body hash
0x1a43479f…a2e2e25f
Recovered signer
0x284ff2f8…d48f845a — matches the TouchstoneAttestation publisher below
TouchstoneAttestation
0xF6070179…93297190 (base-sepolia)
  1. Recompute this print's body hash from the published JSON (JCS-canonicalised, signature fields excluded) and confirm it matches the body hash shown above.
  2. Open the contract link above on Blockscout, go to "Read Contract", call publisher(), and confirm it matches the recovered signer shown above.
  3. On the same "Read Contract" tab, call postedAt(bytes32) with the body hash shown above and confirm it returns a non-zero timestamp.

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