> In the Solomon Islands, a $20-a-month AI plan is 12% of national income per person. There is no recent household survey to set it against what people live on. Claude, OpenAI's API and Gemini are all officially offered. 29% of people use the internet.

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AI access, cost and use · Melanesia · Oceania · data read 1 Oct 2026

# Solomon Islands

In the Solomon Islands, a $20-a-month AI plan is 12% of national income per person. There is no recent household survey to set it against what people live on. Claude, OpenAI's API and Gemini are all officially offered. 29% of people use the internet.

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of the median living standard for a $20 plan

latest survey is from 2012

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of people for whom the plan is over a tenth of their living standard

3of 3

leading services officially offered

Claude · OpenAI · Gemini

29%

of people use the internet

world 74% · 839k people

## The figures · Solomon Islands

People

839k

Median living standard

no estimatelatest survey is from 2012

A $20 plan takes

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For whom it is over a tenth

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GNI per person

$2,020plan is 12% of it

Claude use per person

not reported

Notable AI models built here

0

## Officially offered here · 3 of 3

[Run it yourself →](https://themodelindex.org/local/)

Claude · claude.ai app

Yes

OpenAI · API

Yes

Gemini · web app

Yes

From each lab's own published list: Anthropic's Claude.ai countries, OpenAI's API countries and Google's Gemini web app countries. Not listed means not officially served; open-weight models can be run anywhere.

## Against Oceania and the world · regional figures are medians or population-weighted

| MEASURE | SOLOMON ISLANDS | OCEANIA | WORLD |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A $20 plan ÷ median living standard | – | 11% | 9.9% |
| People for whom it is over a tenth | – | 5% | 63% |
| Plan price ÷ GNI per person | 12% | 3.0% | 2.9% |
| People using the internet | 29% | 75% | 74% |
| Claude use per working-age person | not reported | 5.26× | 1.00× |
| Notable AI models built | 0 | 6 | 1,256 |

## Neighbours · Melanesia · lightest burden first

| COUNTRY | PEOPLE | ONLINE | $20 PLAN ÷ MEDIAN LIVING STANDARD | OVER A TENTH | CLAUDE USE PER PERSON | OFFICIAL LISTS |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Vanuatu](https://themodelindex.org/world/vanuatu/) | 335k | 22% | 11% | 54% | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [Fiji](https://themodelindex.org/world/fiji/) | 933k | 75% | 20% | 89% | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [Papua New Guinea](https://themodelindex.org/world/papua-new-guinea/) | 11 m | 19% | no estimate | – | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| Solomon Islands | 839k | 29% | no estimate | – | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [New Caledonia](https://themodelindex.org/world/new-caledonia/) | 295k | 82% | no estimate | – | not reported | 2 of 3 |

[All countries →](https://themodelindex.org/world/)

## The foundations · Solomon Islands against the world

[World Bank ↗](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator)

People using the internet

29%

world 74%

People with electricity

82%

world 92%

Mobile subscriptions per 100 people

62

world 112

Fixed broadband lines per 100 people

0.1

world 20.1

Enrolled in university-level education

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world 44%

Research spending, share of GDP

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world 2.6%

Researchers per million people

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world 1,652

Secure internet servers per million people

81

world 16,381

The latest World Bank figure for each measure. The tick marks the world figure.

A $20-a-month plan ($240 a year, US list price) against the median household living standard per person in each country. The median is from the latest national household survey (World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform), revalued from 2021 purchasing-power dollars into US dollars at recent prices and official exchange rates, assuming real living standards have not changed since the survey. Some surveys measure income and others consumption, which includes food people grow and housing they own, so this is a living standard, not cash to spare. Countries with no survey since 2015 or no defensible exchange rate are left blank.

[World Bank household surveys ↗](https://pip.worldbank.org/) [Anthropic countries ↗](https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries) [OpenAI countries ↗](https://platform.openai.com/docs/supported-countries) [Gemini countries ↗](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13575153) [Anthropic Economic Index ↗](https://www.anthropic.com/research/economic-index-june-2026-report) [Epoch AI notable models ↗](https://epoch.ai/data/notable-ai-models)

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/world/solomon-islands/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01