Estimated Inference Cost for GPT-5.6 Drops Below $1/1M Tokens
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-11
The author argues that the perception of an AI "bubble" is manufactured by frontier labs. By setting prohibitive API pricing and opaque sub-limits, they pretend their products are extremely expensive to run.
However, based on his observations, he estimates that the actual inference cost for next-gen models like GPT-5.6 has already dropped below $1 per 1 million tokens in practice.
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