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The $20 workload: when GPT-6 Astra earns its premium

Official pricing, independent tests, safety caveats and a direct comparison with GPT-5.6 Sol.

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2026-10-17

ChatGPT vs Cursor Cost in 2026: $20 Plus vs Cursor's $8 to $200 Tiers

ChatGPT Plus is still $20/month. Cursor no longer has a $20 Pro plan for new users: it sells Plus at $8, Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200, with Claude and GPT models billed on top. Here is the real monthly cost of each tier and which one to pay for.

2026-10-17

AI Subscription vs API Cost in 2026: Find Your Break-Even

A numeric cost comparison of a $20/month ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription against GPT-6 Sol, GPT-5.5, Claude Sonnet 5 and the cheap API tiers, with a worked break-even table you can check against your own token mix.

2026-10-17

Claude vs Cursor for Coding in 2026: API, Claude Pro or a Cursor Seat?

Claude Sonnet 5 via API ($2/$10 per 1M tokens), Claude Code on Claude Pro ($20/month) and a Cursor Premium seat ($30/month plus metered model spend) compared for professional software development, with real monthly numbers.

2026-09-11

Microsoft Copilot vs ChatGPT Plus: Which Is Better for Office Work?

Microsoft Copilot Pro is $30/month; ChatGPT Plus is $20. Both run OpenAI's GPT-5 models — the question is whether native Word, Excel and Outlook integration is worth $10 more.

2026-09-11

DeepSeek vs ChatGPT vs Claude: The $0 vs $20/Month vs API Decision

DeepSeek's chat is free. ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro both cost $20/month. On the API, DeepSeek V4 Flash at $0.05/$0.16 per 1M tokens undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 by 49x or more. A decision matrix for which surface fits your usage.

2026-09-11

Claude Free vs Pro: Is Claude Pro Worth $20/Month?

Claude's free tier gives you Claude Sonnet 5 with limits. Claude Pro costs $20/month and adds higher limits, Opus 5 and Claude Code. Here is what the upgrade actually adds and who should pay.

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Compare · Oct 17, 2026ChatGPT vs Cursor Cost in 2026: $20 Plus vs Cursor's $8 to $200 TiersThe old 'same $20' framing is dead. ChatGPT Plus still costs $20/month flat. Cursor's new plans are Plus at $8 (Grok models only), Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200, and on Premium and above every Claude, GPT or Gemini request is billed separately at API list price. A developer on Premium who sends a moderate 3M input and 600K output tokens a month to Claude Sonnet 5.5 pays about $42, not $30. For a generalist, ChatGPT Plus at $20 is still the cheaper and broader buy. For a full-time developer, Cursor Premium at a realistic $40 to $50 a month is now the honest comparison.Compare · Oct 17, 2026AI Subscription vs API Cost in 2026: Find Your Break-EvenThis is the numeric cost page, and the API is cheaper for most people. At GPT-6 Sol's $2/1M input and $10/1M output, a $20 ChatGPT Plus subscription breaks even at about 5M tokens a month on a 3:1 input-to-output mix. Claude Sonnet 5 at $2/$10 lands in the same place. Route routine work to GPT-5.4 mini ($0.75/$4.50) and the break-even moves past 11M tokens; on GPT-6 Luna ($0.10/$0.50) it is about 100M. Subscriptions win on convenience for daily chat; APIs win on cost for automation, agents and high-volume work.Best of · Oct 17, 2026Cheapest AI Code Editors and Assistants on a BudgetAI coding tools ranked by what you actually pay: free editor tiers, the $20 subscriptions, and the cheapest APIs that still handle agent tool calls.Best of · Oct 17, 2026Best AI Subscriptions Under $20/MonthEvery mainstream AI subscription at $20 or less, ranked by what it costs each month: Google AI Plus at $4.99, ChatGPT Go and Cursor Plus at $8, then the $20 plans from ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, Perplexity Pro and Google AI Pro. Cursor Pro no longer makes the cut.Guide · Oct 15, 2026Codex Cloud vs Local Cost: GPT-5.3-Codex Pricing ComparedPrices the GPT-5.3-Codex API against ChatGPT subscription and self-hosted usage patterns, using the official 12-step reference run to show what a coding agent actually costs.Guide · Oct 15, 2026Agent Evals Cost: Per-Run and Monthly Pricing BreakdownPrices a 12-step agent eval trace across 12 models, cached and uncached, with monthly cost scenarios for 1k, 10k, and 100k eval runs.Pricing · Oct 1, 2026OpenRouter Pricing: Fees, Business Plan, Batch and Routers (2026)OpenRouter bills provider rates plus a 5.5% credit fee, or 8% on the new Business plan. See Batch API discounts, BYOK, routers, shell and in-region costs.Pricing · Oct 1, 2026Jev Pricing: TypeSafe's Decision Model Cost per Million DecisionsJev costs $0.042 per million input tokens and output is free. See cost per million decisions, OpenRouter fees, and when Jev beats a cheap LLM.

这张工作台如何保持诚实

  1. 01目录 API 价格会在当天刷新。超过两周的数字会标成过期,而不是假装仍是最新。
  2. 02新闻简报三周后离开公开工作台。常青付费页在 API 目录为 Live 或 Recent 时保持列出。我们不会只为显得新鲜而改日期。
  3. 03上面的问题是人们真正在权衡的购买。新比较只在仍然有效时出现在这里。

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