https://cuigh.com/tags/model-economics/ Recent content in Model Economics on AI Pulse Hugo en-US Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:11:36 +0800 https://cuigh.com/posts/flux-3-video-cost-per-usable-second-2026/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:11:36 +0800 https://cuigh.com/posts/flux-3-video-cost-per-usable-second-2026/ FLUX 3 can generate up to 20 seconds of video with native audio in one pass, but it remains in Early Access and neither pricing nor an open-weight release has been announced. The useful metric is not cost per generated second. It is total cost per usable clip after voice, lip sync, sound effects, stitching, retries, and editing. https://cuigh.com/posts/claude-opus-5-cost-per-task-2026/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:44:04 +0800 https://cuigh.com/posts/claude-opus-5-cost-per-task-2026/ Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24. Token prices did not move. What moved is cost per task: half on CursorBench 3.2 at max effort, one-third on OSWorld 2.0, three times the next-best score on ARC-AGI 3. The yardstick for picking models is shifting from per-token to per-task, and unit intelligence cost is the new moat.