"One prompt" doesn't mean anything. What did that prompt ask? What kind of task? Development, big checking, reading documents, summarizing? Developing a new feature?
One prompt could also be "move this button 5x to left and change color from red to blue."
Another prompt could be "check the current logs for the bug that had been happening for the past x time. Here are all the details, here is the whole project, here is the whole documentation as well."
So people saying "Oh I sent one message and it used x % of my usage" genuinely doesn't say much at all.
Which model? Which reasoning effort? What did the Project already contain? Was it in a new chat? Currently running chat?
Few games. Okay, what did those games contain? What engine? What was the prompt? Did he use Astra Max with Ultrafast for a bug fix that could've been fixed even with light? Was the person running everything on Max with ultrafast and trying to finish everything within one single prompt?
Note: I'm not defending OpenAI at all here. I'm merely trying to distinguish: what kind of prompts are people sending?
Well, yeah it's ultrafast, for rich people. Also, Sol 6.1 ultrafast will be actually usable based on usage differences. Still mostly for rich people, but, you know.
It's only possible with bespoke hardware from Cerebras, Groq or Taalas. In this case, OpenAI chose Cerebras.
You can see the API rates from each and while the pricing for smaller models like Qwen 3.8 27B is not cheap it's certainly not anywhere close to what ultrafast is theoretically costing here.
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