CAICT: Chinese AI model prices nearly doubled in 2026 as daily tokens hit 500 trillion

CAICT's 2026 token service report says daily token consumption in China reached about 500 trillion in June 2026, nearly four times the December 2025 level. The normalized average price of domestic models rose from 6.8 yuan in H2 2025 to 13.46 yuan in 2026.

• Daily token consumption in China reached about 500 trillion in June 2026
• Average output throughput rose from 38.25 to 78.23 tokens per second
• Time to first token increased from 0.78 to 1.26 seconds
• 47.8% of monitored models support 1 million token context