Comment by criley2
18 hours ago
Those prices are just tokens? Since each model uses different amounts of tokens to do the same thing, it's a misleading price that often makes open-weights look more competitive than they are, since most open weights models use dramatically more tokens and time to complete tasks than many frontier models.
In Artifical Analysis's cost per task, Luna(max) costs $0.05 per task, and Qwen 3.8 27B costs $0.25 per task, a 5X increase. We'll see how 3.8-flash-next does.
the important thing is that Qwen 3.7 27B will run unlimited jobs on my consumer grade laptop at 60 tokens/second for free, forever, in about 1-2 years
Thats only important if running it locally is critical for privacy reasons or just as a hobby.
Time has a cost in business. If a model needs 30 million tokens to achieve a similar result as another that can do it in 10 million, that 60 tokens per second will take a long time.