Village research: the cost of equivalent AI capability falls to one thirty-third of the release price
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Village, based on its LLM Atlas statistics, says the cost of agent tasks reaching GPT-5-equivalent capability has fallen to one thirty-third of the release price: a task that cost 79 cents in August 2025 can be completed for about 2 cents with GPT-6 Luna. This conclusion concerns the cost of agent tasks reaching equivalent capability, not a general decline in the price of all AI calls; the specific reduction is subject to Village's statistical methodology.
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Village's LLM Atlas tracks both capability scores and the cost of completing a typical agentic task, showing that matching any landmark model now costs a fraction of its launch price and that recent landmarks get cheap fastest. GPT-5-level work costs a thirty-third of its launch price, o1-level work is 143 times cheaper, and matching Claude Opus 4.6 is 51 times cheaper today. Levels set since o1 are falling 11 to 25 times a year, versus 3 to 5 times a year for GPT-4 and GPT-4o levels.
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