PRICING SNAPSHOT 2026-08-14CLAUDE FABLE 5 $10.00/$50.00 MTOKCLAUDE OPUS 5 $5.00/$25.00 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 MTOKGPT-5.6 TERRA $2.00/$12.00 MTOKGPT-5 MINI $0.25/$2.00 MTOKGPT-5.6 LUNA $0.20/$1.20 MTOKGEMINI 3.1 PRO $2.00/$12.00 MTOKGEMINI 3.6 FLASH $1.50/$7.50 MTOKGEMINI 3.5 FLASH $1.50/$9.00 MTOKGEMINI OMNI FLASH $1.50/$9.00 MTOKGEMINI 3.7 FLASH $0.75/$3.75 MTOKGEMINI 3 FLASH $0.50/$3.00 MTOKGEMINI 3.5 FLASH LITE $0.30/$2.50 MTOKDEEPSEEK V4 PRO $0.43/$0.87 MTOKDEEPSEEK V4 FLASH $0.14/$0.28 MTOK
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GPT-5.6 TERRA VS GEMINI 3.5 FLASH LITE

OpenAI vs Google, in USD per million tokens, cross-checked daily against the public pricing dataset. Same jobs, both meters running.

THE VERDICT
4.9x

GPT-5.6 Terra costs 4.9x more than Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite for the same job — a 1,000-token prompt with a 3,000-token reply runs $0.04 vs $0.0078. At 1,000 runs a day, that gap is $906.00 a month for identical traffic.

SIDE BY SIDE

GPT-5.6 Terra →Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite →
VendorOpenAIGoogle
Input / MTok$2.00$0.300
Output / MTok$12.00$2.50
Output multiple6.0x8.3x
1K prompt + 3K reply$0.04$0.0078

SAME JOB, BOTH BILLS

ScenarioGPT-5.6 TerraGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGap
A typical prompt$0.01$0.00234.9x
A 20-turn conversation$0.06$0.015.0x
Summarizing a 10-page document$0.05$0.015.2x
One agent run$0.15$0.034.8x
A code review request$0.05$0.00984.9x

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-5.6 Terra, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and the other 18 models on the board — plus how much of it is waste either way.