# Vals AI Finds the Same Open-Weight Model Costs 2.3x More Depending on Provider

AlphaSignal, 2026-10-23. [Read the original](https://alphasignal.ai/news/vals-ai-finds-the-same-open-weight-model-costs-2-3x-more-depending-on-provider).

Vals AI launched an Inference Provider Index that compares endpoints for the same open-weight model on agentic tasks; the cost of one model varies 2.3 times by provider.