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<text x="60" y="64" font-size="30" font-weight="700" fill="#0f172a">Nine current flash-tier models: list price, and what a correct answer cost</text>
<text x="60" y="96" font-size="16.5" fill="#475569">Bands by vendor output price on 2026-09-17. Bar: measured cost per correct answer at the best thinking setting (11 tasks x 3). Label: list price in / out, cache read as a share of input.</text>
<text x="330" y="150" font-size="16" font-weight="700" fill="#0f172a">Top band: $10 to $12 output</text>
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<text x="850" y="181" font-size="14" fill="#0f172a">$0.00763 per correct answer, 33/33 at max <tspan fill="#475569">| list $2 in / $10 out, cache read 10%</tspan></text>
<text x="314" y="215" font-size="15" font-weight="700" fill="#0f172a" text-anchor="end">GPT-5.6 Terra</text>
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<text x="473" y="215" font-size="14" fill="#0f172a">$0.00199 per correct answer, 33/33 at low <tspan fill="#475569">| list $2 in / $12 out, cache read 10%</tspan></text>
<text x="330" y="276" font-size="16" font-weight="700" fill="#0f172a">Middle band: $1.20 to $3.75 output</text>
<text x="314" y="307" font-size="15" font-weight="700" fill="#dc2626" text-anchor="end">GPT-5.6 Luna</text>
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<text x="375" y="307" font-size="14" fill="#0f172a">$0.00052 per correct answer, 32/33 at max <tspan fill="#475569">| list $0.2 in / $1.2 out, cache read 10%</tspan> <tspan fill="#dc2626" font-weight="700">invents at default</tspan></text>
<text x="314" y="341" font-size="15" font-weight="700" fill="#dc2626" text-anchor="end">DeepSeek V4.1 Flash</text>
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<text x="396" y="341" font-size="14" fill="#0f172a">$0.00084 per correct answer, 33/33 at low <tspan fill="#475569">| list $0.3 in / $1.2 out, cache read 2%</tspan> <tspan fill="#dc2626" font-weight="700">invents at default</tspan></text>
<text x="314" y="375" font-size="15" font-weight="700" fill="#0f172a" text-anchor="end">Gemini 3.8 Flash</text>
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<text x="496" y="375" font-size="14" fill="#0f172a">$0.00234 per correct answer, 33/33 at low <tspan fill="#475569">| list $0.75 in / $3.75 out, cache read 10%</tspan></text>
<text x="330" y="436" font-size="16" font-weight="700" fill="#0f172a">Bottom band: $0.40 to $0.53 output</text>
<text x="314" y="467" font-size="15" font-weight="700" fill="#0f172a" text-anchor="end">Seed 2.0 Mini</text>
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<text x="445" y="467" font-size="14" fill="#0f172a">$0.00157 per correct answer, 33/33 at default <tspan fill="#475569">| list $0.1 in / $0.4 out, cache read 20%</tspan></text>
<text x="314" y="501" font-size="15" font-weight="700" fill="#0f172a" text-anchor="end">Qwen3.8 Flash</text>
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<text x="371" y="501" font-size="14" fill="#0f172a">$0.00046 per correct answer, 33/33 at default <tspan fill="#475569">| list $0.15 in / $0.47 out, cache read 11%</tspan></text>
<text x="314" y="535" font-size="15" font-weight="700" fill="#0f172a" text-anchor="end">GLM 5.3 Flash</text>
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<text x="367" y="535" font-size="14" fill="#0f172a">$0.00041 per correct answer, 31/33 at default <tspan fill="#475569">| list $0.15 in / $0.5 out, cache read 20%</tspan></text>
<text x="314" y="569" font-size="15" font-weight="700" fill="#0f172a" text-anchor="end">Hy3</text>
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<text x="386" y="569" font-size="14" fill="#0f172a">$0.00069 per correct answer, 33/33 at low <tspan fill="#475569">| list $0.132 in / $0.528 out, cache read 25%</tspan></text>
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<text x="340" y="596" font-size="13" fill="#475569">Red: invented 4 of 5 answers at the default setting, see the admission test. Gemini Flash prices double on Jan 1, 2027; DeepSeek is half price off-peak.</text>
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