AI Agent Costs, Checked: Same Price Per Token, Eight Times the Bill

AI Agent Costs, Checked: Same Price Per Token, Eight Times the Bill

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Publish Date:
29 October, 2026
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By Evan Vega

GPT-6.1 Sol, Kimi K3.1 Pro and Claude Sonnet 5.5 all list at $2 and $10 per million tokens, yet one finished task on Artificial Analysis’s test suite cost $1.27, $3.68 and $10.02. Novel Cognition read every price on the vendors’ own pages and every score on Artificial Analysis’s new Intelligence Index v5.0, which moved every score within days of the most-shared comparison, and found Gemini 4 Argon’s price doubles on 1 December.


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