Engineering
Batch is half price. The wait is the cost
Batch cuts GPT-6.1 Sol from $10 to $5 per million output tokens. On a 2 million token nightly run that is $220 a month, if the job can wait.
#api-pricing
6 stories tagged api-pricing.
Engineering
Count the tokens, then price the call
A short Python script prices an API call from a real trace: 8,000 in and 1,500 out is $0.031 on Sol and $0.155 on Astra.
Engineering
How to estimate an AI API bill before you ship
Two million output tokens a day costs $20 on GPT-6.1 Sol and $100 on Astra. Here is the arithmetic, from list price to a monthly bill.
AI
DevDay shipped the agent. The training pause stayed
OpenAI DevDay 2026 shipped Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol at $2 and $10 per million tokens, and an Agents API, while the September training pause was left unaddressed.
AI for dummies
Muse Code and Spark 1.2: what beginners should know
Meta's Muse Code coding agent is co-trained with Muse Spark 1.2 for whole-project work; the contributor tier costs $0.10 per million input tokens.
AI for dummies
OpenAI slashes GPT-5.6 Luna API price by 80 percent
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 price cut drops Luna to $0.20 per million input tokens and Terra by 20 percent, enabled by GPT-5.6 Sol optimizing its own inference stack. Here is what beginners should do.