August 7, 2025milestonechronicleThe Agent Era
GPT-5 launches with aggressive developer pricing
OpenAI's flagship posts 74.9% on SWE-bench Verified and 88% on Aider polyglot at $1.25/$10 per Mtok — undercutting Claude's comparable tiers severalfold. The price move matters as much as the scores: frontier coding tokens officially enter their deflation phase.