SMM Price Index

How these numbers are produced

Source

Figures are aggregated when the page is requested from active, price-valid services in the public catalog. They are not copied from a quarterly report. A listing is not a guarantee of moment-to-moment upstream availability.

Price measures

The median is the middle observed catalog rate. The typical band runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile—the middle half of listed rates. The floor is the single lowest rate and should not be treated as typical.

Unit and discounts

Rates are US dollars per 1,000 units. Account-specific discounts are not applied to this public comparison.

Avg. start

Current service timing is the median of up to 50 recent observed starts, one sample per order. The platform value is the median of equally weighted service medians. Counts describe evidence coverage. Polling can detect delivery after it actually starts; these are estimates, not promises.

Categories and limits

Comparing one category is more meaningful than mixing unlike service types. Catalog limits show the lowest minimum and highest maximum found across different services, not one typical service's range.

History and timestamps

Current figures are recalculated from the represented catalog on each full page request. One real snapshot is retained per UTC day for the trend; missing days remain missing and earlier history is never invented. Generated is this page read. Latest catalog-wide input activity is a conservative source activity marker, so it can advance even when the displayed aggregates stay the same.