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Stop tracking token costs; start tracking your total cost-per-successful-task
◆ 95RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack8h ago
This shifts the procurement strategy from hunting for the lowest token price to optimizing for total task cost. You should re-evaluate your unit economics, as more expensive models that require fewer steps are now often the higher-margin choice.
Takeaways
- Astra at low reasoning beats Sol at high reasoning on benchmarks.
- Total task costs can decrease even when per-token prices increase by 250%.
- Efficiency gains are now more valuable than finding the cheapest available tokens.
Read the original at thenewstack.io
OpenAI’s new model costs 2.5x more per token — and developers are saving money anyway
fmode.me/n/openais-new-model-costs-25x-more-per-token-and-developers-are-saving-money-anyway
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