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Stop Counting Calls, Start Counting Accepted Outputs: A Five-Stage Token Ledger Tutorial

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Every free-tier LLM project I look at has the same blind spot. The dashboard says requests , the bill says zero , and nobody can answer the one question that matters: how many tokens did we burn to get one output we actually kept? So here is the conclusion up front. Tokens per call is a vanity metr…

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  1. 2026-10-26 11:45 · DEV Community — AI
    Stop Counting Calls, Start Counting Accepted Outputs: A Five-Stage Token Ledger Tutorial

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