Show HN: Wage Against the Machine – MacWages Index for AI Tasks

A new interactive tool, Wage Against the Machine, ranks AI task purchasing power by country, showing that one hour of work in India ($2.20/hr) buys 91 tasks with Luna Max, while in Switzerland ($55.60/hr) it buys 5 tasks. The tool, featured on Hacker News, compares 16 AI models across 10 countries using benchmarks like Artificial Analysis, DeepSWE v1.1, CursorBench 3.2, and FrontierCode 1.1.

WAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE AI task purchasing power by country Share to X ↗ In , one hour of work buys Claude Opus 5 · max tasks. Benchmark Artificial Analysis DeepSWE v1.1 CursorBench 3.2 FrontierCode 1.1 Models Opus 5 Max × Sol Max × Fable 5 Max × Terra Max × Kimi K3 Max × Luna Max × GPT-5.5 Xhigh × Opus 4.8 Max × Sonnet 5 Max × Grok 4.5 High × Muse Spark × Gemini 3.6 High × GLM-5.2 Max × Kimi K2.7 Code × Sonnet 4.6 High × Gemini 3.1 Pro × + Add model Countries 🇺🇸 USA × 🇨🇭 Switzerland × 🇩🇪 Germany × 🇧🇷 Brazil × 🇮🇳 India × 🇨🇳 China × 🇯🇵 Japan × 🇨🇦 Canada × 🇬🇧 UK × 🇸🇪 Sweden × + Add country Compare models across countries Opus 5 Max Sol Max Fable 5 Max Terra Max Kimi K3 Max Luna Max GPT-5.5 Xhigh Opus 4.8 Max Sonnet 5 Max Grok 4.5 High Muse Spark Gemini 3.6 High GLM-5.2 Max Kimi K2.7 Code Sonnet 4.6 High Gemini 3.1 Pro 0.0 25 49 74 98 TASKS / HOUR WORKED 🇮🇳 India $2.20/hr 🇧🇷 Brazil $4.30/hr 🇨🇳 China $6.40/hr 🇯🇵 Japan $21.70/hr 🇬🇧 UK $26.90/hr 🇸🇪 Sweden $28.10/hr 🇨🇦 Canada $29.40/hr 🇩🇪 Germany $32.40/hr 🇺🇸 USA $35.10/hr 🇨🇭 Switzerland $55.60/hr 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 5 Opus 5 Max 0 1 1 3 3 3 4 4 4 7 Sol Max 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 Fable 5 Max 1 1 2 5 7 7 7 8 9 14 Terra Max 0 1 1 5 6 6 6 7 8 12 Kimi K3 Max 4 7 10 36 44 46 48 53 58 91 Luna Max 0 1 1 3 4 4 4 4 5 8 GPT-5.5 Xhigh 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 3 4 Opus 4.8 Max 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 Sonnet 5 Max 1 2 3 9 11 12 12 13 15 23 Grok 4.5 High 1 2 3 9 11 12 12 14 15 24 Muse Spark 1 1 2 6 8 8 8 9 10 16 Gemini 3.6 High 1 1 2 6 7 7 8 8 9 14 GLM-5.2 Max 1 2 2 8 10 10 10 11 12 20 Kimi K2.7 Code 0 1 1 4 5 5 5 6 6 10 Sonnet 4.6 High 0 0 1 2 3 3 3 3 4 6 Gemini 3.1 Pro