Per-token price for frontier models may go up or down, but the cost to solve complex problems is going to increase, writes Zefr's Jon Morra.
Monday, August 24th, 2026 – 12:35 am
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Anthropic just dropped Claude Sonnet 5, reigniting a broader debate about how AI should be priced. Some argue that published token rates no longer tell the full economic story because changes in token consumption and model behavior, such as the use of reasoning tokens, can materially affect real-world costs.
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OpenAI is weighing token price cuts to win customers from Anthropic, the Wall Street Journal reports.
