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Per-token price is the wrong metric for LLM API cost

The sticker price on an LLM API page is almost never the number on your invoice. Most pricing tables show $ / 1M input tokens . That is a useful starting point, but it ignores three things that dominate real workloads: Output tokens cost more. On many popular models the output rate is 4-8x the inpu…

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  1. 2026-11-07 11:11 · DEV Community — AI
    Per-token price is the wrong metric for LLM API cost

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