What the new model pricing means for small teams

Headline price cuts make AI systems look dramatically cheaper. In production, however, the model bill sits beside engineering time, human review and the cost of mistakes.

Small teams should track the cost of a completed, accepted task. That metric makes it easier to compare a premium model that succeeds on the first attempt with a cheaper model that needs several retries.

Signal & Syntax will continue to update this report as products, pricing and practical evidence change.