Which AI Is Actually Cheapest? GPT-6 vs Claude vs Grok vs Gemini

Original author：Cost of Intelligence

Original source：https://www.youtube.com/embed/cMFh-_vNx0Q

Grok, GPT-6, Claude and Gemini: which AI is actually cheapest? HYPE read the sticker prices. AUDIT checked the receipt: what each model costs per task, not per token. Per token, Grok 4.7 wins. Per task, GPT-6 Astra beat Grok and Opus. The smartest is Claude Opus 5.5. The cheapest we found was GPT-6 Luna at 7 cents a task. And Gemini 3.8 Flash doubles in price on Jan 1. Smarter or cheaper? Tell us below. 0:00 Cold open 0:30 The sticker price 1:14 The real bill 1:48 The cheap seats 2:11 The expiry date SOURCES (all checked 27 Sep 2026) • OpenAI API pricing — https://openai.com/api/pricing/ • Anthropic (Claude) pricing — https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing • xAI models & pricing — https://docs.x.ai/developers/models • Google Gemini API pricing — https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing • Artificial Analysis: cost per Intelligence Index task & Intelligence Index v4.3.2 (each model at its highest reasoning setting) — https://artificialanalysis.ai/ • OpenAI Help Center, "Understanding and counting tokens" — https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-and-how-to-count-them Prices are list prices per 1M tokens (standard tier, short context). Your real bill depends on settings, caching and how many tokens a model uses. Music: "Hep Cats" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Voices are AI-generated. HYPE and AUDIT are fictional characters. Not financial advice.