Equation 21 · Part 1 · Comparing Frontier Model Pricing Without Comparing Apples to Oranges
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Put the two halves of this article together and the honest instrument is neither “compare the sticker price” nor “trust the benchmark score” in isolation. It is: measure on your own workload, at your own cache-hit rate and your own reasoning-effort setting, against a capability bar you actually need cleared — and only then ask which vendor cleared it for less, on the date you checked.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [8] Comparison of AI Models across Intelligence, Performance, and Price ↗
- [7] LLM Inference Price Trends ↗
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