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The real prices of frontier models

by Playcode playcode.io published 2026-07-1312 min read

Real token cost of frontier models on the same TypeScript input - Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5, GPT-5.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash. Tokenizer counts, effective cost.

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