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We notice with frontier models like Astra and Fable that one might use a lot less tokens than the other to complete the task thereby being the better deal in sp
by kaliqt 15d ago
We notice with frontier models like Astra and Fable that one might use a lot less tokens than the other to complete the task thereby being the better deal in spite of the far higher token cost.
- LeBit 15d agoWhat is Astra $/task? Even if OpenAI end up using 1 token for per task, if the token costs 1M$ , some people will find it expensive.
- nater5000 15d agohttps://artificialanalysis.ai/#intelligence-comparison-tabs https://artificialanalysis.ai/#intelligence-comparison-tabs Astra on xhigh has a cost per task of $2.31 with an intelligence index of 53. Qwen3.8 Max has a cost per task of $5.41 with an intelligence index of 45. Pricing for GPT-6 Astra (xhigh) is $10.00 per 1M input tokens and $50.00 per 1M output tokens. Pricing for Qwen3.8 Max (0902) is $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $6.00 per 1M output tokens. Obviously this is just one measure of all of this (and Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash isn't yet available), but I think this illustrates the point well. These relative task costs are pretty consistent across different analysts. Cost per token is arguably a useless measure at this point in most circumstances.