Anthropic and OpenAI Match Headline Prices, But Cache Read Costs Differ 4x

Anthropic and OpenAI announced identical headline prices within 48 hours, yet their cache read pricing differs by a factor of four. Analysts caution that in agentic workloads, list prices don't reflect real costs.

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