{
  "name": "Tomorrow — Tokenomics",
  "url": "https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tokenomics",
  "source_url": "https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/api/public/tokenomics.json",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "generated_at": "2026-09-14T05:29:46.258Z",
  "notes": "All prices are USD per 1M tokens from published vendor pricing pages. blended = (input*3 + output)/4, the standard read-heavy mix. Task costs are priced at the mid-tier model unless flat = true, which means a flat published per-unit list price (image, audio, video).",
  "rates": {
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      "model": "Gemini 2.5 Flash",
      "vendor": "Google",
      "date": "2025-06-17",
      "input": 0.3,
      "output": 2.5,
      "blended": 0.85,
      "tokens_per_dollar": 1176471
    },
    "mid": {
      "model": "GPT-5.6 Terra",
      "vendor": "OpenAI",
      "date": "2026-04-16",
      "input": 2.5,
      "output": 15,
      "blended": 5.625,
      "tokens_per_dollar": 177778
    },
    "frontier": {
      "model": "Grok 4",
      "vendor": "xAI",
      "date": "2025-07-09",
      "input": 3,
      "output": 15,
      "blended": 6,
      "tokens_per_dollar": 166667
    }
  },
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    {
      "date": "2020-06-11",
      "price": 60,
      "model": "davinci (GPT-3)"
    },
    {
      "date": "2022-11-28",
      "price": 20,
      "model": "text-davinci-003"
    },
    {
      "date": "2023-07-11",
      "price": 12,
      "model": "Claude 2"
    },
    {
      "date": "2024-05-06",
      "price": 0.175,
      "model": "DeepSeek-V2"
    }
  ],
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    "from": {
      "date": "2020-06-11",
      "price": 60,
      "model": "davinci (GPT-3)"
    },
    "to": {
      "date": "2024-05-06",
      "price": 0.175,
      "model": "DeepSeek-V2"
    },
    "drop_x": 343
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      "id": "question",
      "label": "Ask a question",
      "detail": "A short question, a couple of paragraphs back",
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      "output_tokens": 400,
      "flat": false,
      "flat_note": null,
      "usd": 0.0065
    },
    {
      "id": "recipe",
      "label": "Write a recipe",
      "detail": "Ingredients, method, substitutions — about a page",
      "input_tokens": 300,
      "output_tokens": 900,
      "flat": false,
      "flat_note": null,
      "usd": 0.01425
    },
    {
      "id": "translate",
      "label": "Translate a page",
      "detail": "One page of text into another language",
      "input_tokens": 800,
      "output_tokens": 900,
      "flat": false,
      "flat_note": null,
      "usd": 0.0155
    },
    {
      "id": "summarize",
      "label": "Summarise a 40-page PDF",
      "detail": "Read the whole document, give back one page",
      "input_tokens": 30000,
      "output_tokens": 900,
      "flat": false,
      "flat_note": null,
      "usd": 0.0885
    },
    {
      "id": "code",
      "label": "Build a small feature",
      "detail": "An agent reading files, writing code, re-running itself",
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      "output_tokens": 30000,
      "flat": false,
      "flat_note": null,
      "usd": 1.075
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    {
      "id": "image",
      "label": "Generate an image",
      "detail": "One high-quality 1024px image",
      "input_tokens": null,
      "output_tokens": null,
      "flat": true,
      "flat_note": "Flat per-image list price, not metered in tokens",
      "usd": 0.04
    },
    {
      "id": "speech",
      "label": "Read 1,000 words aloud",
      "detail": "Text-to-speech, about eight minutes of audio",
      "input_tokens": null,
      "output_tokens": null,
      "flat": true,
      "flat_note": "Priced per character, not per token",
      "usd": 0.09
    },
    {
      "id": "video",
      "label": "Generate 8s of video",
      "detail": "One short generated clip with audio",
      "input_tokens": null,
      "output_tokens": null,
      "flat": true,
      "flat_note": "Flat per-second list price, not metered in tokens",
      "usd": 3.2
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}