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Count tokens before you ship so agent bills do not surprise you

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Your API dashboard shows a spike, but the feature "felt small." Look at the tokens: what the model reads, writes, and re-sends on every step. Tokenization is not academic. Context limits, per-token pricing, and latency all use the same unit, and dense code or odd formatting can cost more than the w…

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  1. 2026-10-27 15:30 · DEV Community — AI
    Count tokens before you ship so agent bills do not surprise you

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