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Plated bullets will be cheaper than jacketed. Normally lead bullets will be cheaper than plated. It depends on what you expect from your loads.
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This.
If you are just poking holes in paper or ventilating water bottles, plated bullets are fine. I just finished up the last of my case of Winchester FMJ bullets (bought some years ago when copper was cheap...) and am switching to plated bullets because of cost considerations.
My standard load for about the last 20 years is 6.5grn Unique under a 230grn Winchester FMJ and a CCI or WLP primer in whatever brass I have, and a taper crimp. I will have to reevaluate that load once I start loading the plated bullets, of course.