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Comparing Frontier Model Pricing Without Comparing Apples to Oranges

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google publish input and output prices in the same unit, dollars per million tokens. Three specific ratios genuinely converge across all three rate cards. The token underneath the ratio does not.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 17 min read

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The Real Cost of Running Claude in Production, Beyond the Per-Token Price

A rate card prices an uncached token, a cache write, a cache read, and an output token charged whether or not the answer arrives whole. It says nothing about tool overhead, a retried request, or the safety check every response already passes through.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 11, 2026 · 22 min read

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