Claude 4.7 emits about 30 percent more tokens for the same text and GPT-6 bills roughly double above 272K input tokens, a dev.to digest reports. Budget checks built on old token counts now undercount, so prompt size needs a hard cap enforced in code.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence35
AWS has put Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter model behind Bedrock's APIs and data boundary. The explicit prompt caching it ships with only pays back if you reuse a prefix inside half an hour.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives90
- Confidence55
NVIDIA says multi-agent systems burn up to 15 times the tokens of a standard chat, and Nemotron 3 Super is its open-weight attempt to make each of those tokens cheaper to produce. The efficiency figures come with NVIDIA's own hardware and its own predecessor as the baselines.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives88
- Confidence57
List is $5 per million tokens in and $25 out, with a 1M-token window. The figures that decide an agent budget come from multiplying those against turn counts and Anthropic's rate limit tiers.
Reality
- Evidence20
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+42
- Incentives72
- Confidence24
Google put the same 3.7 Flash behind its API, Vertex, Gemini Enterprise and AI Mode in Search on August 13. The payoff is fewer evaluations to run, not a new capability tier.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives68
- Confidence36