Model pricing cannot be inferred from total parameter count
xeophon · x · 2026-08-31
The author refutes the practice of inferring model pricing from total parameter count. Total params are a minor cost factor compared to active parameters, attention variants, and margins. Providers like OpenAI calculate prices to sit on the Pareto frontier across a range of tasks, considering these technical and economic factors rather than raw size.
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