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Honest analysis of LLM pricing, tokenization quirks, and the actual cost of running models in production.

APR 30, 2026 · 3 MIN READ · PRICING

GPT-5.5 Costs 2× More Than GPT-5.4 for the Same Job. Here's the Math.

OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 with a quiet 2× price hike on input and output. Both models use the same tokenizer. Here's what that does to a 30,000-request-per-month workload, and when it's worth paying.