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Inference pricing

What a token costs: rate cards, surcharges, gateways and the numbers behind them.

14 stories · updated Sep 11

How AI inference pricing works, and why a cheap token is not a cheap answer

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What are open-weight models, and how far behind the frontier are they?

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GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1: how do they actually compare?

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OpenAI stops selling $200 ChatGPT Pro, a week after GPT-6 Astra shipped

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DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash costs $0.15 per million tokens for four-fifths of the week

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Open weights sit at 58 percent of the frontier and 44 percent of the price

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A gateway paying ten percent back on open models has published its own margin

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DeepSeek will route every V4 Pro request to V4.1 Flash, and bill you the Flash price

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GPT-6 Astra finishes its rollout at thirteen times Gemini Flash's price

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Somebody outside Google finally measured a TPU, and the headline is not the interesting number

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What a token costs you and what it burns are unrelated numbers

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Gemini 3.8 Flash keeps its price and warns it will spend more tokens

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Google made video coherence ten times cheaper in five days

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Ollama put a weekday afternoon surcharge on open models

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