Request Limits vs Token Limits: Which Flat-Rate LLM API Pricing Is Cheaper for Your Workload?
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Short answer: a flat-rate OpenAI-compatible API either limits how many requests you send (a request quota) or how many tokens or dollars of compute you burn (a token or budget limit). Request quotas win when your prompts are big, as with coding agents, RAG and long chats, because a 30,000-token req…
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- 2026-10-26 05:32 · DEV Community — AI
Request Limits vs Token Limits: Which Flat-Rate LLM API Pricing Is Cheaper for Your Workload?