V4.1 session: 419 steps, 155M tokens for $1.8 and still messy output
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-09
A user shares a typical V4.1 session: 1 hour, 419 steps, 155 million tokens consumed (about 30M generated) for under 0.5M output at roughly $1.8.
Visually the result "looks like crap," but the author notes the model's math performance was surprisingly solid — strong reasoning, weak generation quality, with room to improve.
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