Octen Search's search cost is about $9 per 1,000 tasks, from roughly 6 to 12 searches per task at $1 per 1k queries (an 80% discount from their standard $5/1k query pricing).

Model cost is about $49 per 1,000 tasks, mid-pack, because Octen's highlight payloads are mid-sized at roughly 7k tokens per search.

At $0.058 per task and an index of 77, Octen sits on the Pareto frontier for Artificial Analysis Search Index vs. Cost per Task, between TinyFish Search ($0.035, index 71) and Perplexity Search (medium) ($0.091, index 80).