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AI Model Costs Vary Wildly: 40x Differences Found Across Providers

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A developer analyzed the costs of 22 AI models from 8 providers for specific prompts, revealing significant price discrepancies. The analysis found a 40x cost difference for a customer support classification task and highlighted that GPT-4o mini is no longer the cheapest option, being outpriced by models like DeepSeek V3 and Gemini 1.5 Flash. The study also noted that advanced reasoning models can be prohibitively expensive for simple tasks, with one instance showing an 890x difference for JSON extraction. AI

RANK_REASON Analysis of AI model costs and performance for developers. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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AI Model Costs Vary Wildly: 40x Differences Found Across Providers

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Darul ·

    I compared AI costs across 22 models — here's what surprised me

    <p>I was building an AI feature into a side project when I realised I had no idea what I was actually spending.</p> <p>I knew the ballpark. GPT-4o is "expensive". Haiku is "cheap". But I didn't know the numbers for <em>my specific prompts</em> — and the gap between "expensive" an…

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