One number both sides trust.
Attic Standard is the independent price reporting agency for AI inference.
We turn published vendor rates into indexes that buyers and sellers price their contracts against.
The Global Price Benchmark for AI Inference
We exist to answer one question: are buyers of AI inference paying a fair price?
THE CHALLENGE
Buyers of AI inference cannot answer the question that buyers in every other infrastructure market take for granted: is this price fair? Vendors publish in units of their own choosing, rates move week to week, and there is no neutral series to check them against. Buyers cannot tell whether they overpay, finance teams cannot forecast the line item, and multi-year agreements are signed against a vendor’s own rate card, with no independent reference to anchor the price at signing or to adjust it as the market moves.
WHAT WE DO
Attic Standard is the independent price reporting agency for AI inference. We turn published vendor rates into indexes that buyers and sellers can price their contracts against, the role price reporting agencies have long performed in established commodity markets such as energy, metals and freight.
HOW ATTIC STANDARD WORKS
Illustration built on published data: the Flagship index for cached input (AIPI FLG GLB) and a simulated $10M a year contract settled on it each month. The grey lines are illustrative.
WHO WE SERVE
Independence: Attic Standard sells no inference, holds no position in the prices it measures, and accepts no payment for inclusion.
Your contract is exposed to five drivers of price volatility, each moving on its own schedule and in either direction.
Your bill follows the index, within a cap and a floor both sides agree.
Attic Standard tracks what the market charges across every modality, channel, tier and region.
Every list price is captured at source and verified, so your contract follows the whole market, not one price list.
The international standard for the benchmarks that financial contracts settle against.
The instrument, not a participant: no capacity resold, no requests routed, no margin earned on prices, and no vendor sees a figure before publication.
Published list prices only, captured from the vendor that sets them. Nothing is estimated or modeled, so every level traces back to its prices.
Fixed rules, every admission decision on record, and method changes announced in advance, so contracts settle on rules both sides know.
Written from Attic Standard's own data.
A 30-minute session compares the models you use with the benchmark and shows how the Clause would have priced your spend.
Administered with reference to the IOSCO Principles for Financial Benchmarks, applied proportionately. Standards statement ›