850x token cost drop since 2020
The cost of one million AI tokens fell from $60 with GPT-3 DaVinci to 6 cents with open-source Llama 4 — an 850-fold decrease in roughly five years.
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I Pay $200. I Use $12,500 in Tokens. AI Costs Crashed 850x and Subscriptions are Dead. | GMP EP03
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Mar 9, 2026
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