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Cheapest per token is not cheapest per finished job: what 2,400 runs show

A model with a 33% pass rate turned out to be the cheapest way to finish a task in a recent 10-model benchmark. The same benchmark shows why that result is less of a free lunch than it looks. Here is the metric behind it and how to compute it on your own prompts. The metric Cost per successful task…

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  1. 2026-11-05 00:47 · DEV Community — AI
    Cheapest per token is not cheapest per finished job: what 2,400 runs show

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