运营商于2025年5月推出词元套餐,将AI算力打包为标准化产品,但用户付费习惯尚未形成,多数消费者仍处于尝鲜或观望阶段。专家指出,运营商凭借网络、用户和计费优势有望降低成本并盘活闲置算力,但计费不透明、模型差异大等问题制约普及。长期来看,词元有望成为无感知的数字基础资源,运营商或将成为词元经济的重要推手。
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运营商于2025年5月集中上线词元套餐,将AI算力打包成可订购、可计费的标准化产品,试图复刻移动数据套餐的商业模式,抢占AI时代的用户入口。
运营商词元(Token)套餐推出数月,市场反馈如何?今年5月,移动、联通、电信集中上线词元套餐,将人工智能(AI)算力打包成可订购、可计费的标准化产品,一时间引发市场广泛关注。但热度之下,真正形成持续付费习惯的用户规模仍然有限,多数消费者还停留在尝鲜体验或者持币观望的阶段,运营商词元套餐的规模化普及尚需时日。
长远来看,运营商有可能成为做大词元经济的重要推手。随着行业标准完善与应用场景拓宽,词元有望从开发者群体走向大众消费者。
抢占AI新入口
2026年,词元经济正从技术概念走向产业现实。运营商推出词元套餐并非偶然,而是行业环境变化、算力投入变现压力、战略转型需求等多重因素叠加下的必然选择。运营商此番入局,也标志着其正加速从传统的“卖流量、卖通信服务”向“卖算力、卖智能服务”转型。
首都经济贸易大学统计与数据科学学院教授、博士生导师阮敬指出,表面上看,运营商推出词元套餐是为了在AI时代复刻移动数据套餐的辉煌,在AI红利时代到来之时分一杯羹。但实质上,这是一场针对AI时代超级入口的战略争夺。
面对大模型浪潮,运营商试图依托其庞大的下沉网络与海量用户基本盘,将词元包装成类似流量的产品,其核心意图是借此把控AI服务的算力分发权,抢占普通用户接触AI的第一入口。
运营商布局词元套餐具备结构性优势——覆盖全国的算力网络、庞大的用户基数、成熟的计费体系、电信级安全保障。据此,运营商有望通过规模效应压低单位词元成本,有效盘活存量闲置算力。以中国移动为例,其通过搭建MoMA统一运营平台,实现计费、结算、鉴权一站式服务。例如,湖北移动推出40元、200元两档月度套餐,分别对应18000次、90000次调用,北京移动上线5.99元次包、24.99元月包,月包包含1000万Token算力额度。
赛迪顾问人工智能与大数据研究中心分析师白润轩介绍,三家运营商发展路径各有侧重,中国电信以集团统一定价推进平台化运营,算力投入力度最大;中国移动接入多款大模型,以分省试点方式逐步铺开;中国联通更加聚焦中小微创业场景。整体来看,运营商词元业务已经从概念构想阶段,迈入实质性资源投入阶段。
落地尚有难关
把无形算力转化为标准化可交易商品,市场是否真正买账,实际使用体验给出了现实答案。
“1000万Token,我做简单问答、信息检索,半天就能用完。”在北京从事轻技术服务的贾先生长期使用API服务,对词元消耗成本十分敏感。他表示,看似简单的问答检索,短时间就可能消耗大量词元,部分智能体单次提问便可消耗数万Token。为控制成本,他需要同时订阅多款包月产品,按需挑选不同模型厂商的最优服务。
简单对话却消耗畸高,同款模型在不同平台消耗差距明显,直接影响用户体验与消费信任。阮敬指出,计费不透明,并非计费规则文本不公开,而是词元底层生成机制的“黑盒化”。“不同大模型的数据处理机制和分词器算法各不相同,词元生成缺乏行业共识。将这种消耗波动大、产生机制不透明的产品,直接套用类似手机流量的标准化计费模式,与实际消费规律存在错位。”
中国信息通信研究院云计算与数字化研究所副所长栗蔚认为,当前词元套餐尚处在发展初期,虽然有了统一的产品概念,但缺少统一、透明、可横向对比的计量规则。她建议,行业应当厘清基础概念,向用户提供可查询的消费明细,建立消费全过程提醒机制,加快出台统一计量与服务规范。
受访专家普遍判断,长期来看,词元有望成为数字生活的新型基础资源,由单独显性付费,逐步转向打包内嵌,最终变成无感知的底层数字权益。
“未来,消费者可能每天都在使用词元,却未必需要直接感知和计算词元。”栗蔚表示,随着人工智能由问答工具向智能体演进,AI将逐步嵌入手机、电脑、汽车和家庭终端,持续执行信息检索、实时翻译、内容生成、日程管理等任务。AI使用由偶发调用转向持续在线,将带来稳定、常态化的词元需求。
“只有开发者或专业人士才需要成本控制,普通消费者深究底层消耗既无必要,也违背产品易用性的初衷。”阮敬说,这就如同移动互联网早期用户按MB(兆字节)精打细算流量,随着流量规模提升,大众不再纠结单次网页消耗,只关注套餐整体额度。
多元供给初显
从市场格局来看,如今词元销售逐步形成三种模式:第一类是大模型厂商原厂应用程序编程接口(API),如DeepSeek、智谱、百度千帆、火山引擎等,各家定价差异显著;第二类是云厂商聚合平台,如腾讯云、阿里云百炼、火山方舟等,通过统一接口调用多款模型;第三类是电信运营商,三大运营商均推出各自词元套餐并接入多款主流模型。
受访专家认为,运营商入局,并非简单抢夺原有市场,而是推动行业从厂商直销,向“直销加分销、单模型加多模型聚合”模式演进。
栗蔚指出,运营商手握海量个人与政企客户资源,能够把原本面向专业开发者的API,转化为中小企业、普通消费者看得懂、买得到的套餐产品。长远看,通过集中采购、多模型智能调度,运营商有望做大整个词元产业的市场蛋糕,同时围绕客户入口、议价能力、利润空间展开行业竞争。
不过,目前行业格局并未定型,仍受自研模型能力不足、各省定价不一致、线下渠道有待拓展、行业标准缺失等现实约束。
面对产业快速扩张与规范体系建设不同步的阶段性矛盾,行业治理已经启动,计价规范、分级评估、差异化计价模式正在加紧推进。专家建议,主管部门应建立强制信息披露制度,要求平台完整公示计费规则与消耗明细。随着配套制度不断完善,行业现存乱象将得到逐步整治,运营商布局词元经营的大方向不会改变。(中国经济网记者 李方)
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
随着行业标准完善和应用场景拓宽,词元将从开发者群体走向大众消费者。
Likely · Within months
长期来看,词元有望成为数字生活的新型基础资源,由单独显性付费,逐步转向打包内嵌,最终变成无感知的底层数字权益。
Possible · Within months
运营商有望通过规模效应压低单位词元成本,有效盘活存量闲置算力。
Possible · Within months

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