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		mattalex 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual ... It might be that they pay less for anthropic depending how many tokens are generated by each model: total cost is token cost times number of tokens. I haven't checked gpt5, but it is not impossible that price wise they might be very comparable if you account for reasoning tokens used.

poslathian 3 months ago [–]

Is it possible that regardless of what they pay they think Anthropic is negative margin on it?

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