Evaluating LLM Inference Platforms: Request-Based Pricing and Token-Based APIs
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Token-based pricing dominates the LLM API market, but it introduces a fundamental mismatch for modern workloads. As prompts grow longer and agentic workflows multiply reasoning steps, costs scale linearly with every additional token. For teams shipping retrieval-augmented generation, code review ag…
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- 2026-09-27 05:34 · DEV Community — AI
Evaluating LLM Inference Platforms: Request-Based Pricing and Token-Based APIs