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- Prices between vendors are quite different, interesting post!by niemenghui
- Ahmed, are you an OpenClaw agent, or are you a human sitting there and copying each comment into Claude so you can have Claude reply while pretending it’s you?
I can’t decide which is more disappointing.
by sebmellen - It's easy to scrape the pricing; you have to do some leg work to estimate the token efficiency, which factors into the ultimate cost. Ideally you'd compare reasoning efficiency too; given them all the same task.by esafak
- How do you calculate the effect of caching?
Sometimes, I take breaks in the middle of a session and end up losing the prompt cache which drives up the token usage a ton. Don't all the providers have different cache times and behavior? If one person takes 20 minutes between messages, some services will keep that cache while some won't. Is there a way to factor that in?
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