More Tokens Isn't More Intelligence

More Tokens Isn’t More IntelligenceCost vs. benefit imbalance: Biology vs. AI scalingBrianneLeeApr 30, 2026ShareThere’s a leaderboard I’ve been watching lately that tracks how many tokens different versions of Claude consume on the same prompts. Opus 4.6 versus Opus 4.7. Same input, different token counts. (https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard) The community submits prompts, the numbers get aggregated, and you can see, in real time, how token consumption has drifted between model versions. It’s a useful tool. It’s also measuring the wrong thing or more precisely, only one side of an equation whose other side nobody seems to be measuring.

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