Cost of Inference
Cost of Inference — 12 LLMs benchmarked across 3 production workloads (May 2026)
Same RAG pipeline, 12 different models, 52× cost spread between cheapest and most expensive. Updated pricing snapshot 2026-05-21.
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A typical RAG pipeline running 1000 queries per day costs $3.00/day on the cheapest catalog model (gpt-5.4-mini) and $157.50/day on the most expensive (claude-opus-4.7). That is a 52× spread for the same workload, before any quality difference is factored in.
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