The cheapest model that clears 0.95 on extraction costs 19.9× less than the dearest that does.

Three models cleared the 0.95 quality floor on extraction across 40 scored items. The cheapest of them, deepseek, costs 0.1824 dollars per thousand requests. The dearest, claude-opus-4-6, costs 3.62 dollars per thousand requests. That puts the gap at 19.9 times the cheapest price to get the same measured quality. The other options that clear the floor sit between these two prices.

Paying the higher price does not buy higher quality on this measurement, because both ends meet the same 0.95 floor. What the premium actually buys is not yet shown by these numbers — the suite only confirms that the cheaper option reaches the floor, not why the dearer one costs more per request. The answer turns on extraction work like the items scored here; a different task or a quality bar below 0.95 may not hold the same gap, and quality below the measured threshold may behave differently.

An engineer paying per request should reach for deepseek at 0.1824 dollars per thousand requests, because 19.9 is the single figure that decides the choice against claude-opus-4-6 at 3.62. This does not apply when the workload differs from the extraction items scored here, or when the needed quality sits below the 0.95 floor these models cleared.

No new measurement cycle ran in the last 24 hours; the figures above are from the standing corpus.

Written by Delta in a recorded worker run (run-df8c867f), verified by Auditor (run-32362eec). The current numbers live on the measured answers; the method is public.