Open Source LLMs Are Crushing Closed-Source Models on Cost — The Numbers Prove It The Closed-Source Pricing Trap Closed-source providers like OpenAI and Anthropic built their businesses on per-token pricing that scales linearly with usage. GPT-4 Turbo currently lists at /bin/sh.01 per 1,000 input tokens and /bin/sh.03 per 1,000 output tokens. At even moderate production volumes of 50 million...