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1. pookieinc · 1790100388 · focus · HN ↗

   I don't see how anyone can be using Claude with prices like this, it's pretty incredible what the OpenAI team is doing, w.r.t model quality and pricing.

     Prices per 1M tokens     Claude Opus 5.5    Claude Opus 5
      Cache reads              $0.20              $0.50
      Input tokens             $4                 $5
      Output tokens            $20                $25
      Cache writes             $5                 $6.25
   
   
   

   Model

   Input

   Output

   Price reduction

   GPT‑6 Sol vs. GPT‑5.6 Sol

   $4 → $2

   $20 → $10

   50% cheaper

   GPT‑6 Luna vs. GPT‑5.6 Luna

   $0.20 → $0.10

   $1.20 → $0.50

   50% cheaper

   1. an0malous · 1790101437 · focus · HN ↗

      These are the pre rug pull prices. They'll increase prices 10x and nerf the models after they IPO.

      1. selectodude · 1790102239 · focus · HN ↗

         Okay? I didn’t sign a 10 year contract. We’re month to month and I use my own harness.

         If they’re subsidizing my usage, that’s great.

         1. infinitezest · 1790103069 · focus · HN ↗

            You're building your livelihood/workflows on a set of inputs that you have no idea what they actually cost or how reliable they'll be when the VC cash stops flowing. If you're OK with that, do your thing but it seems a little foolish to me.

            1. selectodude · 1790114730 · focus · HN ↗

               Push comes to shove, OpenAI could go out of business tomorrow and I could pick up roughly where I left off for $25k, which is the cost to serve GLM 5.3 Flash on four Nvidia GB10s. Granted, if OpenAI et al go kaput all at the same time, I could probably get a whole lot more compute for a whole lot less money.

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