Per-task cost comparison across frontier models

Stats Wire @StatsWireOriginally posted 2026.10.05

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Holy shit. Gemini 4 Argon costs $1.99 per Intelligence Index task. GPT-6 Astra: $3.26 Claude Opus 5.5: $5.98 Claude Fable 5.1: $7.63 Claude Sonnet 5.5: $7.67 You’re paying 3–4× more for the Claude tier to do the same class of work. GPT-6.1 Sol still wins: $0.72