{
  "lastVerified": "2026-07-05",
  "note": "Cloud API pricing per 1M tokens (input / output), mid-2026 list prices. Indicative — check the provider's live pricing page.",
  "baselines": [
    {
      "id": "claude-opus",
      "name": "Claude Opus 4.8",
      "vendor": "Anthropic",
      "priceUrl": "https://www.anthropic.com/pricing",
      "tier": "Premium frontier",
      "inPrice": 5.0,
      "outPrice": 25.0,
      "localEquivalent": "A 70B open model gets you maybe 80% of the way — decide if that's your 80%.",
      "effect": "Local pays off fast"
    },
    {
      "id": "gpt-55",
      "name": "GPT-5.5",
      "vendor": "OpenAI",
      "priceUrl": "https://openai.com/api/pricing/",
      "tier": "Premium frontier",
      "inPrice": 5.0,
      "outPrice": 30.0,
      "localEquivalent": "A 70B open model gets you maybe 80% of the way — decide if that's your 80%.",
      "effect": "Local pays off fast"
    },
    {
      "id": "claude-sonnet",
      "name": "Claude Sonnet 4.6",
      "vendor": "Anthropic",
      "priceUrl": "https://www.anthropic.com/pricing",
      "tier": "Mid frontier",
      "inPrice": 3.0,
      "outPrice": 15.0,
      "localEquivalent": "A well-tuned 70B at Q4 competes on many coding tasks.",
      "effect": "Local pays off at moderate use"
    },
    {
      "id": "gpt-54",
      "name": "GPT-5.4",
      "vendor": "OpenAI",
      "priceUrl": "https://openai.com/api/pricing/",
      "tier": "Mid frontier",
      "inPrice": 2.5,
      "outPrice": 15.0,
      "localEquivalent": "A well-tuned 70B at Q4 competes on many coding tasks.",
      "effect": "Local pays off at moderate use"
    },
    {
      "id": "claude-haiku",
      "name": "Claude Haiku 4.5",
      "vendor": "Anthropic",
      "priceUrl": "https://www.anthropic.com/pricing",
      "tier": "Fast / value",
      "inPrice": 1.0,
      "outPrice": 5.0,
      "localEquivalent": "A 14B-32B local model is a fair fight here.",
      "effect": "Break-even needs heavy use"
    },
    {
      "id": "deepseek-flash",
      "name": "DeepSeek V4 Flash",
      "vendor": "DeepSeek",
      "priceUrl": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing",
      "tier": "Ultra-cheap open-weight",
      "inPrice": 0.14,
      "outPrice": 0.28,
      "localEquivalent": "This IS an open model — you'd run something similar locally.",
      "effect": "Local rarely pays off on cost"
    }
  ]
}