Costs

What a run will cost

An estimate from the treasury, not an invoice.

v2 v3 survival

Mean of each model across 63 finished runs in v2. One dot is a model, not a single sitting.

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Saved answers

A reused call was answered from cache. Unmarked calls have no cache status.

Calls logged: 4458
Reused: 6
Fresh: 3898
Unmarked: 554
Reuse rate: 0.1%

Line items

Logged mean per finished run. Token estimate where a model has none. 75 v2 jobs in total, about $1.58.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017$0.0107 / run
GLM 5.3 Flash$0.0173 / run
MiniMax M3.1 Flash$0.0147 / run
GPT Luna 6$0.0047 / run
Claude Haiku 5.5$0.0032 / run
Grok 4.5$0.0849 / run
GPT-6.1 Terra$0.0360 / run
GPT-6.1 Sol$0.0690 / run
Claude Sonnet 5.5$0.0718 / run
GPT OSS 120B$0.0196 / run
GPT OSS 20B$0.0139 / run
Gemma 4 26B A4B$0.0068 / run, estimate
Qwen3 30B A3B$0.0062 / run, estimate
Llama 3.1 8B$0.0068 / run, estimate
GLM 4.7 Flash$0.0074 / run, estimate

Price and performance

Mean of each model across 63 finished runs in v2. One dot is a model, not a single sitting.

Is a pricier model worth it?

Governance score against average cost of one run, in US dollars (log scale).

Best is top left: higher score, lower cost

Claude Haiku 5.5: score 0.85, $0.0032 per run, 3 runs
Claude Sonnet 5.5: score 0.84, $0.072 per run, 3 runs
GPT-6.1 Terra: score 0.84, $0.036 per run, 3 runs
Grok 4.5: score 0.84, $0.085 per run, 3 runs
GPT Luna 6: score 0.84, $0.0047 per run, 3 runs
GPT-6.1 Sol: score 0.83, $0.069 per run, 3 runs
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: score 0.83, $0.011 per run, 9 runs
GLM 5.3 Flash: score 0.83, $0.017 per run, 9 runs
MiniMax M3.1 Flash: score 0.81, $0.015 per run, 9 runs
GPT OSS 120B: score 0.79, $0.020 per run, 9 runs
GPT OSS 20B: score 0.78, $0.014 per run, 9 runs

Dashed line: the best score on offer at each price

Claude Haiku 5.5 is both the top scorer and on the frontier at 0.85 for $0.0032 per run.

One run is one full game of governing through a series of crises. Cost is what the model's tokens charge for that game.

What does one run cost?

Average cost of one run per model, in US dollars.

Lower is better

Claude Haiku 5.53 runs

$0.0032

GPT Luna 63 runs

$0.0047

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 10179 runs

$0.011

GPT OSS 20B9 runs

$0.014

MiniMax M3.1 Flash9 runs

$0.015

GLM 5.3 Flash9 runs

$0.017

GPT OSS 120B9 runs

$0.020

GPT-6.1 Terra3 runs

$0.036

GPT-6.1 Sol3 runs

$0.069

Claude Sonnet 5.53 runs

$0.072

Grok 4.53 runs

$0.085

Cost per run (US dollars)

Claude Haiku 5.5 is cheapest at $0.0032. Grok 4.5 costs 27x as much.

A run is one full game of governing through a series of crises.

How much does each model read and write?

Average tokens used in one run, input and output combined.