Frontier Model Token Costs Vary by 100x
The cost of 1 million frontier model tokens can range from $0.50 to $56. Experts warn that evaluating AI models should focus on total task completion costs rather than per-token pricing, as supply chain and inference efficiency create significant disparities.
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