Unverified60% confidenceFactExact time
In the single-page cost-calculator build test, Argon output about 15,700 tokens per build, Opus about 10,500, and Astra about 10,900, with Argon consuming about 50% more tokens.
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Short-term (~14 days)
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10/18/2026
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Valid until: 11/1/2026
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UnverifiedArgon's input, thinking process, and output share the same token budget, so a million-token context does not equal a million-token output.75% similarUnverifiedIn test 1, Argon's average cost per build was 16 cents, Opus 21 cents, and Astra 55 cents; after prices double on December 1, the same build costs Argon about 32 cents, overtaking Opus.75% similarUnverifiedArgon eliminated the long-context surcharge, maintaining $2/$10 across the full 1,048,576-token window, whereas 3.1 Pro raises its price to $4/$18 beyond 200K tokens.74% similarUnverifiedArgon's single output limit has expanded from 64,000 tokens to 1 million tokens.73% similarUnverifiedArgon outputs about 62k tokens per task on average, while GPT-6 Astra outputs about 27k tokens, making the former 2.3 times the latter.72% similar
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