joelseignior.com · interactiverates as at 10 Oct 2026

The pass-through test.

If your vendor were only passing tokens through, your bill would track the commodity. Put in your team's usage (if you know it), price it at today's spot rates, and compare it with your seat. Every figure below is editable, because in this market the rates won't sit still.

1 · Your teamthe comparison updates live

Seats 750 count every seat: lawyers, in-house counsel, legal ops, other knowledge workers. Law firms, in-house teams and other buyers all run these products now; 750 fits a top-tier firm, an in-house team might be 20

Negotiated discount on the platform seat 50% 40–60% off opening prices is widely reported

Light users, % of seats

Regular users, % of seats

Heavy agentic users, % of seats usually a sliver of the team

Shares are normalised if they don't sum to 100. The common shape: everyone on it, few using it hard.

Show costs in

A$1 buys US$

RBA, 9 October 2026; edit to today’s rate. Model rates stay in US$ as published; seat prices, engineering and every result switch to your chosen currency.

The comparisonper seat, per month, blended across your usage mix

Team total, per yearseats × route + your engineering where it applies

Assumptions every number below is editable and feeds the result

Usage profiles, per seat, per monthmillions of tokens; defaults are illustrations, edit freely

Profile	Fresh input	Cached re-reads	Output
Lightoccasional questions, the odd summary
Regulardaily drafting, some workflows
Heavy agenticagents running on matters all day

Fresh input = documents read the first time. Cached re-reads = history an agent re-sends each step. Output = what the model writes back.

Spot rates, US$ per million tokenspublished list in US$ whichever currency you show; edit if stale

Route	Model	Input	Output	Blended seat cost, US$
	1 Sep 2026, flagship tier			—
	22 Sep 2026			—
	rise cancelled 11 Aug 2026; rate held			—
	7 Oct 2026; this rate is for requests ≤100K tokens — longer requests bill $0.50/$2.50			—
	Apr 2026			—
	29 Sep 2026			—
	22 Sep 2026, budget tier			—
	30 Sep 2026, introductory; standard $4/$20; limited API access at launch			—
	self-hosted: enter effective rates (see note)			—

rates change weekly and models land monthly; every name and rate is editable

Cache-read price, % of input rate published discounts run ~2.5–10% by provider and tier; 10% is the dear end

The seat pricesUS$ per seat per month

Your legal platform seat ~US$1,200 reported at the premium end; use your real rate

Lab seat fee, metered route Anthropic's listed enterprise fee, US$20; usage billed on top

Lab seat, flat route ChatGPT Enterprise, reported range US$45–75

Your own engineering on the lab routeswhat it takes to replace the platform's out-of-the-box layer

Own engineering for the lab routes, US$ a year a raw model doesn't do legal work out of the box: prompting, integration, evaluation, security are on your payroll instead

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