GPT-5.6 pricing shows why SaaS teams should model AI costs by workflow, not just by model price, token rates, or API calls.
A pricing table is useful.
It is also easy to overread.
When a new model family arrives with clearer tiers, faster options, and lower-cost paths, the first instinct is to compare input and output prices. That makes sense. Founders need to know whether a feature can survive real usage.
But the price per million tokens is only the first layer of AI cost.
The real product cost usually appears one step later:
A prompt that costs $30 on GPT-5.5 costs $0.28 on DeepSeek V4 Flash. That's a 100x difference — and...
AI API pricing history: GPT-4 $60 in 2023 to GPT-5.4 $15 in 2026. Mid-tier costs collapsed 50-100x. Full timeline, what's driving…
The $0.14-per-million-token Question In June 2026, calling GPT-4o costs $2.50 per million...
As if anyone is supposed to know what a million tokens adds up to.
Something broke in the AI pricing market between January and May 2026. A year ago, "frontier model"...
GPT-5.4 costs about 3.3x more than GPT-5.4 Mini at current OpenAI list pricing. The honest task-by-task comparison: where mini…
