Prompting techniques and their token cost: system prompts, few-shot, chain-of-thought and injection
Every word in a prompt is billed, so each technique has a token cost. Here is what the vendors and papers say, with counts I measured using OpenAI's o200k_base tokenizer. System prompts are billed on every request My 225-word support-bot prompt is 275 tokens. At 1,000 requests a day that is 8.25M i…
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- 2026-11-14 00:17 · DEV Community — AI
Prompting techniques and their token cost: system prompts, few-shot, chain-of-thought and injection
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