Anthropic's models cost $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.

OpenAI API tokens initially cost approximately a fifth of a penny per thousand tokens.

A simple AI chat typically costs a few hundred tokens.

Computationally expensive AI models like Claude Mythos can only be used effectively by individuals who spend significant amounts on tokens.

The CEO of Anthropic stated that if the company's revenue is not $1 trillion or even $800 billion, it could go bankrupt due to compute costs.

Anthropic requires users to pay for third-party harnesses or agents when using Claude.