GPT-6 Astra Is Expensive per Token. I’m Not Sure That’s the Right Metric
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The first thing that jumped out at me when GPT-6 Astra launched was the price. Standard API pricing starts at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens . That’s 2.5× the short-context token price of GPT-5.6 Sol. Once a request goes beyond 272K input tokens, Astra moves onto an…
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- 2026-09-08 03:10 · DEV Community — AI
GPT-6 Astra Is Expensive per Token. I’m Not Sure That’s the Right Metric