> When evaluating the Intelligence Index, it generated 150M tokens, which is very verbose in comparison to the median of 87M.

So their base price is 1/5th of Opus 5.5 per token, but if you want "highspeed" it's 2x that and then I guess it generates 2x the number of tokens as well?

That might suggest that Opus is competitively priced after all.

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minimaxir 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In an agentic pipeline, the output text is 2-5% of the total tokens used, so verbosity is a nonissue costwise. Although, higher verbosity could cause input to balloon faster and potentially cost more, but that would be captured by the cost-per-task metric.

But as noted by other replies, it's still lower than Opus/Sonnet.

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jukea 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You pay for chain of thought tokens as well. Ex: Imagine asking for a single number that takes 1h to compute

	▲	minimaxir 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's included in my estimate. Take for example Opus 5.5: https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 Currently for today, it's 1.19T input tokens, 5.41B reasoning tokens, and 4.29B completion. Therefore, reasoning + completion is 0.8% of the total usage. Actually below my estimate!

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ctolsen 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Opus 5.5 is even more verbose. 260M on the same suite.