Token pricing is meaningless now: Astra cheaper per task than Gemini 3.8 Flash
stevenheidel · x · 2026-09-04
OpenAI's Steven Heidel says token pricing is effectively meaningless: GPT-6 Astra sits alone on the pareto frontier of cost efficiency due to extreme token efficiency, costing less per task than Gemini 3.8 Flash — a model 13x cheaper per token. His advice: measure your costs per task, not per token.
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