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Cost per agent session

Cost per agent session
Chart by Clouded Judgement (Altimeter). Source: cloudedjudgement.substack.com

This bar chart displays the estimated cost per 40-turn agent session across various AI models under specific context growth and caching conditions as of October 2026. GPT-6 Astra has the highest cost per session at $8.99, while GPT-6 Luna has the lowest at $0.09.

LabelValue shown on the chart
GPT-6 Astra$8.99
Fable 5.1$7.59
Opus 5$4.50
Opus 5.5$3.22
Gemini 4 Argon (list)$2.89
Kimi K3$2.45
Grok 4.7$1.96
GPT-5.6 Terra$1.92
GPT-6.1 Sol$1.61
Gemini 4 Argon (intro)$1.45
GLM 5.3$1.25
Grok 4.3$0.94

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