Cost per Task, Not Cost per Token: Build an LLM Cost Calculator in TypeScript
Most LLM pricing pages answer one question. What does a million tokens cost? That's a useful number. It's just not the number that shows up on the bill. The bill is made of tasks. A task is a few turns, a few tool calls, a retry or two, and a prompt that gets resent every single time. This month, t…
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Cost per Task, Not Cost per Token: Build an LLM Cost Calculator in TypeScript