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Your LLM cost estimate is wrong above 200,000 tokens
Community description: I went looking for a straight answer to "what will this cost per month" and found that almost every...
Dev.to | Sep 13, 2026 | llmwaves
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The threshold nobody shows you Gemini 3.1 Pro is $2 per million input tokens, $12 per million output. OpenAI's pricing page carries a line that is easy to miss: the published rates cover context lengths under 270,000 tokens. From Claude 4.6 onward there is no context tier. On short prompts, Gemini 3.1 Pro's input rate looks 2.5x cheaper than Claude Opus 5's. For speed, context window, benchmark scores and cost per task across 323 models, the LLM Waves leaderboards track all of it, and the economics board ranks by cost per task rather than headline rate.
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