10 pointsby sacredSatan5 hours ago2 comments

a7om_com4 hours ago
The gap depends heavily on which models you're comparing and through which channel. We track normalized pricing across 2,614 inference SKUs and 47 vendors and the spread between cheapest and most expensive option for functionally similar models regularly exceeds 30x. Direct from model developer vs third-party platform alone averages 7x on input tokens. The frontier model vs budget model gap adds another layer on top of that. The 37x figure is plausible depending on the exact comparison. Full data at a7om.com if useful.
elesingp5 hours ago
I think CC is even cheaper. I heard that it is approximately 37x cheaper. There was a research couple months ago
- montooner3 hours ago
  That's interesting, b/c that research from a few months ago seems to line up with the article. The article actually calls out 38x when you compare CC with Cursor's API token pool only. But then when you add in the Composer tokens, it becomes 5x. Obviously Composer's a different level of model than Sonnet/Opus.
- sacredSatan4 hours ago
  I think that may be comparing cc against opus with cursor. This post compares against Auto+Composer pool. It does mention that if you used a frontier model then the gap would be even wider.