If models get smarter, why does the same task cost more?
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A better model should need fewer attempts. Fewer attempts should mean a smaller bill. That is the intuition, and my invoice has disagreed with it three times now. The price per token had gone down, so it was not a price change. The tokens you pay for and never read Reasoning models do a block of in…
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- 2026-09-09 10:01 · DEV Community — AI
If models get smarter, why does the same task cost more?