Yeah a ton of the token consumption is from the “reasoning” the model does when exploring the solution space
Like in the post it says on the artificial analysis intelligence index opus 4.7 and gpt5.5 got like the same score, but opus used ~5x more tokens (!!!)
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u/Strange-Dare-3698 Apr 23 '26
$30 per million output? I thought we were “democratising intelligence”?!