Lifetime compute for one frontier RL task (500,000 tokens per run, group size 64, five reuses, at Grok 4 output-token prices; Mechanize analysis)
$2,400 for each RL task per RL task, compute over its life
Dated 18 Aug 2025Source checked 15 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: vendor
In the source's own words
“Conservatively assuming five reuses per task, the total lifetime compute expense will be $2,400 for each RL task.”
Where it was read
Also read from the same source
What it is about
Figures it counts in
- $1,500 per taskDatasets, tasks and environments, cost to produce, per task
- 36Prices per task behind every valuation of a task set
Cited in these 2 guides