hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
API pricing ends up being something like 20x more expensive for GPT 5.5 Pro than GPT 5.5 for actual work, even though the token cost is "only" 6x.
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Raw Postshn • r/hackernews
Comment on: GPT-5.4
People (and also frustratingly LLMs) usually refer to https://openai.com/api/pricing/ which doesn't give the complete picture.https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing is what I always reference, and it explicitly shows that pricing ($2.50/M input, $15/M output) for tokens under 272kIt is nice that we get 70-72k more tokens before the price goes up (also what does it cost beyond 272k tokens??)
reddit • r/ChatGPT
20 dollar subscription vs API for learning
20 dollar subscription vs API for learning
hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: AI coding at home without going broke
>Around $400 a month of plans buys roughly $2800 of API usage at list prices, which is a real bargain right up until you hit the ceiling. The plans are metered, and any large AI native workflow will chew through the included tokens fastI don't think that's true at all. I'm doing 8-12 PRs a week at work, all primarily Claude Code, and the usage at API billing has never broken $500/mo.