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$667 or $1,100 for the same 100,000 JSON extractions — and the price per token never changed

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Ask what an LLM call costs and you get the price list. Ask what a task costs and the honest answer is the price list divided by how often the answer is usable. That divisor is set by two knobs most beginners copy from a tutorial and never touch again — temperature and seed. A few words first. A tok…

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    $667 or $1,100 for the same 100,000 JSON extractions — and the price per token never changed

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