AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top
"A 97 percent discount tends to do that." REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); During this same period, prices for cutting-edge frontier models surged. "OpenAI doubled the price of GPT-5.5 to $5 input and $30 output per million tokens – that's on its own pricing page," said Panwani. "Google's Gemini Flash 3.5 arrived three to six times more expensive than the model it replaced." REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); The recent release of Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 continues that trend.
- ▪"A 97 percent discount tends to do that." REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); During this same period, prices for cutting-edge frontier models surged.
- ▪"OpenAI doubled the price of GPT-5.5 to $5 input and $30 output per million tokens – that's on its own pricing page," said Panwani.
- ▪"Google's Gemini Flash 3.5 arrived three to six times more expensive than the model it replaced." REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); The recent release of Anthropic Claude Sonn
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