The spot market for AI Inference

Joined September 2025
The Grid’s Beta is LIVE! We can get your AI API costs down by up to 80% by making suppliers compete for your requests. Your first 200M tokens are on us, start building → app.thegrid.ai/sign-up
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We need a token trading market. Trade token contracts for each model. Who is doing that?
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Live now on @The_GridAI GPT 6.1 Sol Simply hit gpt-sol-latest As always, -latest instruments fall back to previous versions for reliability
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Cheap inference shouldn't lead to expensive mistakes. We check reliability, quality and privacy for you at the best price.
Models ship daily. Provider reliability changes by the minute. @The_GridAI always serves the latest reliable model in each family: claude-opus-latest → Opus 5.5, falls back to 5 gpt-sol-latest → Sol 6, moving to 6.1 once we lock in reliable ZDR providers + kimi, minimax, deepseek, glm & more
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Imagine having to remember only one model name. Forever.
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Carl DiClementi (@CahlDee) joins the stream tonight to introduce @The_GridAI, which lets you buy AI model usage at a price set by competing providers instead of whatever one company charges. youtube.com/watch?v=K2Y0z2LO…
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Tune in today at 5:15pm ET as @CahlDee joins @ajcwebdev to show how The Grid is building a real market for AI inference
Carl DiClementi (@CahlDee) joins the stream tonight to introduce @The_GridAI, which lets you buy AI model usage at a price set by competing providers instead of whatever one company charges. youtube.com/watch?v=K2Y0z2LO…
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Deepseek-V4-Pro-0813 is live on The Grid with more intelligence per dollar. Try it now
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At @Ai4Conferences, @CahlDee spoke with Dr. Şadi Evren Şeker about bringing price discovery to AI inference Inference markets are evolving rapidly. Keep an eye on Dr. Şadi's channel for a deeper dive coming soon youtu.be/dV4U55bDOl0
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Claude Opus 5 is now live in claude-opus-latest. Our Lab Latest Markets automatically keep you on the newest qualified model in the family, so you can keep shipping instead of maintaining model versions.
1/ Lab Latest Markets are live on The Grid! The latest intelligence from any lab, now at the market price. This means supply and demand determine what you pay, not a rate card or subscription.
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1/ Lab Latest Markets are live on The Grid! The latest intelligence from any lab, now at the market price. This means supply and demand determine what you pay, not a rate card or subscription.
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4/ Eight Lab Latest Markets, live today: ▫️deepseek-pro-latest ▫️glm-latest ▫️kimi-latest ▫️minimax-latest ▫️bytedance-pro-latest ▫️gpt-sol-latest ▫️claude-opus-latest ▫️gemini-pro-latest
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Get started by changing the model name and pointing your base URL to api.thegrid.ai/v1. Live prices for each model are available in the app at thegrid.ai/pricing.
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What if unused tokens weren't wasted? Reselling is live on The Grid. Use what you need, resell what you don't. Tell your agent to buy and sell inference to stretch your spend.
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Setup tax + cost hurdles are the two biggest reasons AI agents don't stick for non-developers. That's why we built AgentSea. 60 seconds and you're running, with inference routed through The Grid so you save up to 80% from day one.
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A new model drops. You stop mid-build to read the evals, open five tabs, and start rethinking everything. Don't. You don't need the perfect model. You need reliable intelligence. Pick a tier and keep shipping.
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A lucky buyer today got 11 million tokens of inference at $0.0001 per million. Kinda wishing I had a limit order there to catch it. Text Prime is currently serving MiniMax-M3. That's >1000x cheaper than you'll find anywhere else. Yes, with zero data retention included. Your data is your own. Name another place where you can buy the dip to save on tokens.
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