Four cost gates that decide your token bill (none of them is the price per token)
I spend a lot of time in comment threads arguing about what a token costs. After enough of those, a pattern showed up: most "cost" questions are not pricing questions. They are questions about a gate somewhere else in the pipeline. Four gates, in the order they usually bite. 1. Caching has a break-…
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- 2026-11-09 16:18 · DEV Community — AI
Four cost gates that decide your token bill (none of them is the price per token)