Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra on the same task: $19.91 vs $162.29
Given the same brief and tool to rebuild After Effects and Premiere for agents inside Tesseract, Opus 5.5 cost $19.91 and Astra cost $162.29, an 8x gap.
Same task. Same tool. One model finished for $19.91. The other racked up $162.29. That's not a typo, it's an 8x gap. A side by side build test: Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra, both tasked with rebuilding After Effects and Premiere for agents inside Tesseract. Both models got the identical brief and the same tool to work in. The build cost ticked up live on screen as each one worked through the task, including rendering a full animated horse sequence from scratch. Opus 5.5 landed at $19.91. GPT-6 Astra landed at $162.29 for what looks like the same output. That's not a small efficiency difference, it's the kind of gap that decides which model you actually run in production when you're paying per task instead of per subscription. Raw intelligence benchmarks get all the attention, but cost per completed task is the number that actually determines what ships at scale. Would you trade some quality for an 8x cheaper build, or is price not even the deciding factor for you?
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