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The cost of using GPT-4.5 is a sticking point that may deter users from truly engaging with it. At an eye-watering $75 per million input tokens and $150 per million output tokens, it's five times the price of its competitor Claude, which is set at $15 per million tokens. Availability isn't any easier, as the model is exclusively offered to subscribers of OpenAI's $200 monthly Pro plan. Such pricing limits access and yields mixed feelings on whether the high costs translate into tangible superior quality in performance.