On Openrouter it has the same cost per token as 4.5
replyYou missed my point. If the average request uses more tokens than 4.5, then you will pay more sending those requests to 4.6 than 4.5.
replyImagine 2 models where when asking a yes or no question the first model just outputs a single yes or no then but the second model outputs a 10 page essay and then either yes or no. They could have the same price per token but ultimately one will be cheaper to ask questions to.
> From the press release at least it sounds more expensive than Opus 4.5 (more tokens per request and fees for going over 200k context).
replyThat's a feature. You could also not use the extra context, and the price would be the same.
The model influences how many tokens it uses for a problem. As an extreme example if it wanted it could fill up the entire context each time just to make you pay more. The efficiency that model can answer without generating a ton of tokens influences the price you will be spending on inference.
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