Per-Token Price Is Only Half the Story: Modeling Real LLM API Costs for a Marketplace
Every LLM pricing table answers the same question: what does a million tokens cost? It's a useful number, but it's the wrong unit for a marketplace. A marketplace doesn't buy tokens. It runs listings, matches, moderation passes and fraud checks, and each of those calls hides costs that never show u…
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- 2026-11-04 07:35 · DEV Community — AI
Per-Token Price Is Only Half the Story: Modeling Real LLM API Costs for a Marketplace