{"i":22,"slug":"thinking-token-bill","chart":{"id":"thinking-bill-by-effort","title":"Reasoning cost per strict pass by effort, with the total (calculation)","subtitle":"List price ÷ strict passes; every cell is 8 tasks × 2 repetitions","kind":"grouped-bar","unit":"usd","yLabel":"USD per strict pass (list price)","series":[{"name":"Reasoning cost per strict pass","points":{"$k":["label","value","n"],"$r":[["Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low) · Claude Code",0.004317,16],["Claude Sonnet 5.5 (medium) · Claude Code",0.005946,16],["Claude Sonnet 5.5 (high) · Claude Code",0.009369,16],["Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Claude Code",0.006299,16],["Claude Opus 5.5 (low) · Claude Code",0.005031,16],["Claude Opus 5.5 (medium) · Claude Code",0.01344,16],["Claude Opus 5.5 (high) · Claude Code",0.018034,16],["Claude Opus 5.5 · Claude Code",0.013104,16],["GPT-6.1 Sol (low) · Codex CLI",0.001223,16],["GPT-6.1 Sol (medium) · Codex CLI",0.002273,16],["GPT-6.1 Sol (high) · Codex CLI",0.004114,16]]}},{"name":"Total cost per strict pass","points":{"$k":["label","value","n"],"$r":[["Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low) · Claude Code",0.012191,16],["Claude Sonnet 5.5 (medium) · Claude Code",0.01352,16],["Claude Sonnet 5.5 (high) · Claude Code",0.016705,16],["Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Claude Code",0.013978,16],["Claude Opus 5.5 (low) · Claude Code",0.021152,16],["Claude Opus 5.5 (medium) · Claude Code",0.029475,16],["Claude Opus 5.5 (high) · Claude Code",0.033677,16],["Claude Opus 5.5 · Claude Code",0.028925,16],["GPT-6.1 Sol (low) · Codex CLI",0.012837,16],["GPT-6.1 Sol (medium) · Codex CLI",0.025637,16],["GPT-6.1 Sol (high) · Codex CLI",0.015137,16]]}}],"note":"Calculation, not a bill: reported tokens × list price, divided by the cell's strict passes; the calls ran on flat subscriptions. The effort-ladder cells: new calls plus reference cells reused from the hard head-to-head (Claude repetitions 1-2 only). \"Default\" means the effort flag was not passed. The total is the same value as the effort-ladder cost-per-pass chart. Effort levels are not the same scale across vendors, and the reference cells ran in a different batch and hour.","polarity":"none","sourceIds":["calc-thinking-bill","agent-provider-h2h-hard","agent-effort-ladder","agent-provider-h2h","price-anthropic","price-openai"]}}