GPT 4.1 pricing in Windsurf is revealing...

Frankly these prices (now that the free trial is over) do make sense.

I found GPT-4.1 to be a really bad coding assistant. I used it when the task was straight forward and simple (because it was free), but for anything that was complex or might touch more than one file, I fell back on Sonnet.

I found Sonnet had to clean up after some of GPT-4.1's messes... almost like GPT-4.1 was a drunk frat boy that trashed the dorm over the weekend and Sonnet came in to tidy up the place like a responsible, thoughtful, capable roommate.

I didn't dare touch o3 reasoning models though (at 7.5x and 10x credits!). That's like Zuck hiring the Winklevi twins to build The Facebook...! (Or was it the other way around?)