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Tag: token pricing

Analysis of LLM token pricing trends, API costs, model efficiency metrics, and enterprise compute expenditure for AI deployment.

AI Pricing Battle Intensifies as Anthropic and OpenAI Cut Costs with New Models

OpenAI and Anthropic are cutting prices for their latest AI models, with GPT-6 Sol and Luna 50% cheaper and Claude Opus 5.5 costing 40% less to run than Opus 5.

Anthropic and OpenAI have launched cheaper AI models as competition intensifies, highlighting lower costs alongside improvements in performance, factuality and capabilities.

AI Agents Now Burn Nearly 5x More Tokens Than Humans, Data Shows

Illustration of an AI robot and a business professional collaborating at a desk, symbolizing the growing partnership—and competition—between human users and autonomous AI agents in the workplace.

AI agents are now the primary consumers of AI tokens. OpenRouter data cited by a16z shows agents use nearly five times as many tokens as humans, with agentic consumption rising 14-fold since February 2026 to reach 7.3 trillion tokens. The shift is driven by agents’ iterative, goal-oriented workflows and is already influencing enterprise infrastructure and traditional automation tools.

Palantir CEO Slams “Tokenmaxxing” by AI Companies, Bats for AI Sovereignty With Product Launch

Palantir CEO Alex Karp criticised the token-based business model of AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic, days after the company posted a nine-point manifesto on AI sovereignty. (Representative image)

In a post on X, the company said AI sovereignty determines an institution’s future, adding that sovereignty is the precondition for choice — and slammed “tokenmaxxing,” the pursuit of high AI token usage that it says creates an addictive feeling of false progress.