How To Optimize Your Usage: The Best AI Models to Use, version 2

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Pro+ vs. usage base pricing

Recalculated API Cost Per Million Tokens The new estimates for cost per million tokens (CPM), factoring in the cost of Cache Read, are as follows: Model Est. Input CPM ($/M tokens) Est. Output CPM ($/M tokens) Grok-4 ~$3.21 ~$16.05 Gemini 2.5 Pro ~$2.26 ~$6.78 Claude 4 (Sonnet) ~$4.89 ~$24.45 Claude 4 Thinking ~$3.92 ~$19.60 o3-pro ~$25.35 ~$76.05 o4-mini ~$1.49 ~$5.96 auto ~$2.54 ~$5.08 Note on Calculation: These estimates are derived by treating Cache Read as a bill…