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The sane starting point for a small product team touching a bit of everything. Fork it, put in your real volumes, and tighten from there.

by WeavePrism · May 24, 2026

Coding

20M in · 5M out$6.50

Writing

8M in · 4M out$3.60

Chat

15M in · 6M out$6.00

Classify

25M in · 1.5M out$3.10

$19.2per month

−$733/mo (97%)

Grok 4.1 Fast

xAI

$16.1

$0.2/M in$0.5/M out2M ctx

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Google

$3.10

$0.1/M in$0.4/M out1M ctx

React Flow

$19.2/mo woven−$733/mo vs Claude Opus 4.5

Assignments

CodingGrok 4.1 Fast$6.50Q82

Grok 4.1 Fast wins on coding quality (82) and cost efficiency (84) at $6.50/mo for this volume.

WritingGrok 4.1 Fast$3.60Q82

Grok 4.1 Fast wins on writing quality (82) and cost efficiency (88) at $3.60/mo for this volume.

ChatGrok 4.1 Fast$6.00Q86

Grok 4.1 Fast wins on chat quality (86) and cost efficiency (87) at $6.00/mo for this volume.

ClassifyGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite$3.10Q82

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite wins on cost efficiency (90) and classify quality (82) at $3.10/mo for this volume. Worth testing: GPT-5 nano saves $1.25/mo for −0 quality.

Trade-off shape

Recomputed live from catalog v2026.01 list pricing and heuristic quality scores.