What does it cost at your scale, and what do you trade for it?

Plug in your token volume and workload mix. Compare an open model on Together against a closed API, side by side on price and on the quality tradeoff cost calculators usually ignore, scored from the public use-case benchmarks.

Workload

Long shared prefixes, heavy cache reuse.

Volume25M tok/day
Output share25%
Cache hit rate70%
Open model · on Together
Compare against · closed API
Savings vs Claude Opus 5 (annual)
$00% lower cost running GLM-5.2 on Together.
The quality tradeoff-22%keeps 78% of Claude Opus 5's coding agents score

What you pay vs what you get

760M tokens / month · quality scored from public benchmarks
Open on TogetherGLM-5.2cheapest$0
quality
0.0
Closed APIClaude Opus 5$0
quality
0.0
Input tokensCached inputOutput tokensquality score, 0-100

A 22% quality tradeoff on coding agents, keeping 82% of the budget.

Cost per quality point: $16 vs $72 per month · 4.4× more quality per dollar

Estimate from published serverless rates and public benchmark scores. Your mileage varies. See methodology.

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