$30/M Input and $180/M Output Tokens is nuts. Ridiculous expensive for not that great bump on intelligence when compared to other models.

Price Input: $2.50 / 1M tokens Cached input: $0.25 / 1M tokens Output: $15.00 / 1M tokens

https://openai.com/api/pricing/

Gemini 3.1 Pro

$2/M Input Tokens $15/M Output Tokens

Claude Opus 4.6

$5/M Input Tokens $25/M Output Tokens

Just to clarify,the pricing above is for GPT-5.4 Pro. For standard here is the pricing:

$2.5/M Input Tokens $15/M Output Tokens

For Pro

Better tokens per dollar could be useless for comparison if the model can't solve your problem.

You didn't realize they can increase / change prices for intelligence?

This should not be shocking.

OP made no mention of not understanding cost relation to intelligence. In fact, they specifically call out the lack of value.

Don't use it?