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.
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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.