A million tokens, measured in
PDFs are expensive to read properly: preserving layout, tables and figures costs ~1,500 tokens a page. A million tokens digests about 650 pages of dense reports.
1 block = 1 PDF page
≈ 650 PDF pages
visually-processed PDF pages
When a model reads a PDF page as both text and image (preserving layout, tables and figures), each page costs ~1,500 tokens. Text-only extraction is cheaper: ~2,000 pages per million tokens.
basis: ~1,500 tokens per page with layout
Everything on this page is exactly one million tokens. So the price of having a model read all of it is simply each model's per-million rate. Updated 2026-07-03.
| Model | Read all of it (input) |
|---|---|
| GPT-5.5 Pro | $30 |
| Claude Fable 5 | $10 |
| GPT-5.5 | $5 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | $5 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | $2 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | $2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | $1.50 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1 |
| Gemini 3 Flash | $0.50 |
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