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What did the first AI price list charge per request for a small job?

Research question: What was the first published price list for renting an AI model by the request, and what did it charge for a typical small project?

The records show one per-request example: classifying an image through Google's prediction API cost $0.0015 ¹. The facts do not identify the first published price list for renting an AI model by the request ¹. They also do not give a price for a typical small project ¹. The newest fact is from 2022, about four years before October 2026, so it may not reflect current pricing ¹.

Checked 2026-10-20. Only documented and supported facts are used.

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The document gives one example of a per-request price for a machine learning model service: classifying an image through Google's prediction API cost $0.0015. It does not identify a first published price list or a typical small project price.

"one may use Google prediction API to classify an image for only $0.0015 [17]"

Data pricing in machine learning pipelines (2022)