
Four AI labs priced frontier models four different ways
Four frontier AI models launched in 72 hours with cached-input pricing ranging from $0.075 to $1.00 per million tokens. Here’s what the price gap means for companies running AI agents.
Adewale Amure is an AI and finance journalist covering how automation is rewriting the economics of money. He writes about the companies building AI into banking, payments, and investing, and about what those systems mean for the person on the other side of the app. His work appeared in Stockbossup, where he covered markets, fintech, and personal finance for black U.S. readers. He spent five years reporting on digital assets and financial infrastructure, tracking tokenization, stablecoin rails, and the slow migration of financial plumbing on-chain. That background shapes how he reads the current cycle. He is more interested in what a technology settles, clears, or costs than in what it promises. He writes primarily for U.S. and EU audiences and publishes independent analysis on Substack.

Four frontier AI models launched in 72 hours with cached-input pricing ranging from $0.075 to $1.00 per million tokens. Here’s what the price gap means for companies running AI agents.
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