I Tested OpenAI and Anthropic Pricing Side by Side — Here's the Truth (opens in new tab)

So here's what happened: i Tested OpenAI and Anthropic Pricing Side by Side — Here's the Truth Last month I burned through $847 on a single classification pipeline. That's the moment I started tracking every token like it was my own money, because it was. I'd been running everything through direct OpenAI and Anthropic endpoints without giving the unified routing layer a real chance. Three weeks and roughly 12,000 API calls later, I have opinions. Strong ones, with sample sizes and p-values be...