AI Coding Field Notes

Coding agent pricing comparison: cheapest LLM API for coding, cost per million tokens, from the OpenRouter price list as JSON and CSV.

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GPT-5.6 costs and claims: every figure from a sentence that names it

18 of the 335 figures in these field notes come from a sentence that names GPT-5.6. Each one is quoted verbatim from the write-up it appeared in, with the day that write-up went out.

Some of these are about GPT-5.6 and some only measure against it — a competitor’s price quoted next to GPT-5.6’s belongs here too, because that is the sentence someone searching for the comparison is looking for. The sentence tells you which is which.

This is not a GPT-5.6 price sheet. Nothing here is read off a vendor page. These are figures a working developer wrote down, and the date is the day the piece was published — not the day the price was in force. Model prices move fast: read every row as of its own date, and treat an old one as a lead rather than a quote.

The figures

All 335 figures, every kind · JSON · CSV

Where these 18 came from

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All write-ups