PRICING SNAPSHOT 2026-07-11CLAUDE FABLE 5 $10.00/$50.00 MTOKCLAUDE OPUS 4.8 $5.00/$25.00 MTOKCLAUDE SONNET 5 $2.00/$10.00 MTOKCLAUDE HAIKU 4.5 $1.00/$5.00 MTOKGPT-5.6 $5.00/$30.00 MTOKGPT-5.5 $5.00/$30.00 MTOKGPT-5.4 $2.50/$15.00 MTOKGEMINI 3.1 PRO $2.00/$12.00 MTOKGEMINI 3.5 FLASH $1.50/$9.00 MTOKGEMINI 3 FLASH $0.50/$3.00 MTOKDEEPSEEK V4 PRO $0.43/$0.87 MTOKDEEPSEEK V4 FLASH $0.14/$0.28 MTOK
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GPT-5.5 VS GEMINI 3.1 PRO

OpenAI vs Google, in USD per million tokens, verified daily against public list prices. Same jobs, both meters running.

THE VERDICT
2.5x

GPT-5.5 costs 2.5x more than Gemini 3.1 Pro for the same job — a 1,000-token prompt with a 3,000-token reply runs $0.10 vs $0.04. At 1,000 runs a day, that gap is $1,710.00 a month for identical traffic.

SIDE BY SIDE

GPT-5.5 →Gemini 3.1 Pro →
VendorOpenAIGoogle
Input / MTok$5.00$2.00
Output / MTok$30.00$12.00
Output multiple6.0x6.0x
1K prompt + 3K reply$0.10$0.04

SAME JOB, BOTH BILLS

ScenarioGPT-5.5Gemini 3.1 ProGap
A typical prompt$0.03$0.012.5x
A 20-turn conversation$0.14$0.062.5x
Summarizing a 10-page document$0.14$0.052.5x
One agent run$0.37$0.152.5x
A code review request$0.12$0.052.5x

Output sizes use the same editorial ratios as the Burn Calculator. Estimates, not invoices — and price is not a benchmark: the cheaper model is only a bargain if it does the job.

SETTLE IT WITH YOUR OWN PROMPT

Paste a real prompt into the Burn Calculator and see what it costs on GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro and the other 10 models on the board — plus how much of it is waste either way.