The more interesting finding is that it's still the second most expensive model (after Fable 5) by a long shot.

At least two models (GPT-5.6, Kimi K3) match its score (~1-2% diff) for half the cost.

The chart shows max effort, used mostly by price-insensitive enterprise users. At medium effort it drops to almost half K3’s cost, and is probably sufficient for 95% of coding tasks.