"Which is obviously increasing"

With the primary advancements over the past two years being Chain Of Thought which absolutely obliterates token counts in what world would the "per token" value of a model be going up...

If you are able to cogently explain how you would instruct GPT 3.5 with ANY amount of tokens to do what Sonnet 4 is able to do, I am sure there's a lot of wealthy people that would be very interested in having a talk with you.