Costs
What a run will cost
An estimate from the treasury, not an invoice.
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. 4 v3 jobs in total, about $0.43.
- GPT OSS 20B$0.1931 / run
- Claude Haiku 5.5$0.0215 / run
Price and performance
Mean of each model across 4 finished survival runs. Survival stays off the v3 mean.
Is a pricier model worth it?
Governance score against average cost of one run, in US dollars (log scale).
- Claude Haiku 5.5: score 0.84, $0.021 per run, 2 runs
- GPT OSS 20B: score 0.74, $0.193 per run, 2 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 0.84 for $0.021 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.
Cost per run (US dollars)
Claude Haiku 5.5 is cheapest at $0.021. GPT OSS 20B costs 9.0x 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.
Tokens per run
GPT OSS 20B reads and writes the most, 927k tokens, 12x the least (Claude Haiku 5.5).
A token is a small chunk of text, roughly three quarters of a word. Fewer tokens means a cheaper, faster run.