$100 Buys 2,500 Tasks on GPT-6 Luna vs 40 on Opus 5.5; Apple Slashes Staff AI Budgets
Hesamation · x · 2026-11-05
- Artificial Analysis cost math: a $100 budget covers 40 Intelligence Index tasks with Opus 5.5 at medium reasoning effort (just 10 at max effort), 166 tasks with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 at max, or 2,500 tasks with GPT-6 Luna at medium effort.
- The accompanying chart ranks per-task weighted cost across dozens of models, from $0.04 (IC2 Horizon 32B-A2B) up to $12.99 (Claude 5.1 Tableway) — orders-of-magnitude gaps between small open models and flagship reasoning models.
- Quoting Mark Gurman: Apple is cutting employee AI spending even as it pushes workers to use AI more. Engineers' daily limits dropped from $300 to $200, with plans to cut to $100; other teams may fall to $25.
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