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LLM API pricing

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LLM API pricing

Inference Cost per Million Tokens: Price the Task, Not the Rate

Priced on one normalised agent workload, a month of inference costs $370 on GPT-5.6 Luna and $10,725 on Claude Opus 5. Output, reasoning and cache-read rates explain the gap, not the input price.

September 11, 2026 · 22 min read