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AI Pricing

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OpinionThe Editorial Board
Haiku 5.5’s lower listed rates need independent task tests
Haiku 5.5 starts at $0.10 per million input tokens for prompts up to 100,000 tokens, but published rates and company estimates do not show cost or quality on a buyer’s workload.
Oct 7
ModelsExplainer
Claude Haiku 5.5: what to know about its features, prices and performance claims
Haiku’s token rates drop 90% for prompts up to 100,000 tokens, but Anthropic estimates average running costs fall about 75% after accounting for a tokenizer that uses more tokens.
Oct 7
OpinionReality Check
GPT-6.1 Sol's price claim holds up; its near-Astra intelligence claim still needs outside proof
Sol's list prices are one-fifth of Astra's. The near-Astra evidence is mostly OpenAI's own, and a secondhand report of the one outside index has Astra winning most of its tests.
Oct 1

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ModelsExplainer
How close does OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol get to Astra for a fifth of the price?
OpenAI says Sol nearly matches Astra at $2/$10 per million tokens against $10/$50. An independent test puts it 1 point behind, and Sol's Ultrafast tier was only promised at launch.
Oct 1