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Verdict · measured basis
Hermes 4 70B costs $0.0001 per solved task against
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b at $0.0002 — ▼ 1.5x cheaper .
Over 200 tasks that is $0.01 a month.
On output token price alone gpt-oss-safeguard-20b looks 1.3x cheaper. The ranking reverses once you divide by pass rate — the cheaper tokens do not win the task.
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Verified pricing, pass rate and cost per solved task for gpt-oss-safeguard-20b and Hermes 4 70B Figure gpt-oss-safeguard-20b Hermes 4 70B Input $/Mtok $0.075 $0.13 Output $/Mtok $0.3 $0.4 Cached input $/Mtok $0.037 $0.13 Pass rate 97% 58% Cost per solved task $0.0002 measured $0.0001 measured Cost per month $0.04 $0.03
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Monthly cost against tasks per month Log-log lines for Hermes 4 70B (measured, $0.0001 per solved task), gpt-oss-safeguard-20b (measured, $0.0002 per solved task) from 10 to 100,000 tasks a month. Marker at 200 tasks. 10 100 1k 10k 100k $0.001 $0.01 $0.1 $1 $10 TASKS / MONTH (log) → 200 tasks Hermes 4 70B · MEASURED · $0.0001 per solved task $0.03 Hermes 4 70B MEASURED gpt-oss-safeguard-20b · MEASURED · $0.0002 per solved task $0.04 gpt-oss-safeguard-20b MEASURED Monthly cost against tasks per month Log-log lines for Hermes 4 70B (measured, $0.0001 per solved task), gpt-oss-safeguard-20b (measured, $0.0002 per solved task) from 10 to 100,000 tasks a month. Marker at 200 tasks. 10 100 1k 10k 100k $0.001 $0.01 $0.1 $1 $10 TASKS / MONTH (log) → 200 tasks Hermes 4 70B · MEASURED · $0.0001 per solved task $0.03 gpt-oss-safeguard-20b · MEASURED · $0.0002 per solved task $0.04 — Hermes 4 70B · MEASURED — gpt-oss-safeguard-20b · MEASURED Solid measured · dashed modeled · dotted stale. The gap is the verdict.
Solvency Bench (solvency.dev) — first-party measurement · verified 2026-08-26 · prices from each provider's pricing page; measured rows ignore the tier · Methodology · All models at these settings