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From token prices to task prices: three jobs, seven APIs
Community description: I priced three concrete jobs on seven model APIs using each vendor's own pricing page, and wrote down every assumption the conversion rests on.
Dev.to | Oct 9, 2026 | hc_xshh
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Every vendor publishes a price per million tokens. OpenAI states they are billed as output tokens (OpenAI reasoning guide, read 2026-10-09). Gemini 3. 1 Pro Preview steps from $2. 00 to $4. 00 input per million above 200,000 tokens (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform pricing, read 2026-10-09).
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