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Billing LLM usage per token: the pitfalls nobody warns you about

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I run a multi-provider LLM gateway in production (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek and a dozen others behind one endpoint) with prepaid, per-token billing. Getting the metering correct took more iterations than the entire proxy itself. Here is what I wish someone had told me. One request is neve…

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  1. 2026-08-31 19:25 · DEV Community — AI
    Billing LLM usage per token: the pitfalls nobody warns you about

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