THE GRID Grid Intelligence Indices
GII-OR-SPEND-ALL / latest print 2026-10-21

Reference numbers for the intelligence economy.

GII turns public inference activity into a daily, citable market print: routed token volume, spend-weighted model exposure, and unit costs for the emerging market in machine cognition.

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GII-OR-SPEND-ALL ▲ 5.6% WoW

$29.5M

Daily notional spend

USD / UTC day
GII-OR-UNITCOST-ALL ▲ 13.9% WoW

$5.11

Basket unit cost

USD / 1M tokens
GII-OR-VOLUME-ALL ▲ 16.4% WoW

28.10T

Routed token volume

tokens / UTC day
Market print

Five months of public notional spend history.

Observed daily prints since launch, with a fixed-tariff backcast for context and a 90/10 to 50/50 blend band around the headline convention. Every point is recomputable from archived public inputs.

October 21, 2026 90/10 to 50/50 blend band shown around the headline convention
$0.0M $13M $26M $39M $52M Jan 27 Mar 11 May 1 Jun 12 Jul 25 Sep 6 Oct 19 Oct 21 fixed-tariff backcast (E1) observed prints (E0) blend convention band (90/10 – 50/50)

Backcast: Fixed-tariff public notional backcast: historical token volumes valued at the 2026-06-07 tariff snapshot. Not realized spend. Matched-token coverage rises toward the snapshot date (survivorship/coverage drift). Coverage rule: Days with >=50% matched token share only.

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