{
 "title": "Claude effort levels: tokens, time and cost for the same coding task",
 "url": "https://tokensave.app/data/claude-effort-cost",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0",
 "measured": "2026-10-09",
 "tool": "Claude Code (claude -p --effort), tokens and cost from ccusage at API prices",
 "prompt": "Make a brick-breaker game that runs in the browser as a single file named index.html in the current folder. It needs 2 levels, a score display and 3 lives, and it must be playable with the keyboard and the mouse. Write the file and finish.",
 "citation": "TokenSave (2026). Claude effort levels: tokens, time and cost for the same coding task [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23446567",
 "rows": [
  {
   "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
   "model_name": "Opus 5.5",
   "effort": "low",
   "seconds": 32,
   "output_tokens": 3368,
   "total_tokens": 129315,
   "cost_usd": 0.48,
   "code_lines": 138
  },
  {
   "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
   "model_name": "Opus 5.5",
   "effort": "medium",
   "seconds": 52,
   "output_tokens": 6299,
   "total_tokens": 133428,
   "cost_usd": 0.56,
   "code_lines": 358
  },
  {
   "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
   "model_name": "Opus 5.5",
   "effort": "high",
   "seconds": 110,
   "output_tokens": 12376,
   "total_tokens": 222854,
   "cost_usd": 0.75,
   "code_lines": 523
  },
  {
   "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
   "model_name": "Opus 5.5",
   "effort": "xhigh",
   "seconds": 272,
   "output_tokens": 32435,
   "total_tokens": 472082,
   "cost_usd": 1.36,
   "code_lines": 639
  },
  {
   "model": "claude-opus-5-5",
   "model_name": "Opus 5.5",
   "effort": "max",
   "seconds": 1342,
   "output_tokens": 160033,
   "total_tokens": 2504957,
   "cost_usd": 5.25,
   "code_lines": 1121
  },
  {
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "model_name": "Sonnet 5.5",
   "effort": "medium",
   "seconds": 37,
   "output_tokens": 4100,
   "total_tokens": 115073,
   "cost_usd": 0.25,
   "code_lines": 198
  },
  {
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "model_name": "Sonnet 5.5",
   "effort": "high",
   "seconds": 58,
   "output_tokens": 8073,
   "total_tokens": 137593,
   "cost_usd": 0.3,
   "code_lines": 398
  }
 ]
}