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The 10M Token Question Nobody Asks: Where Do the Tokens Actually Go?

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Token quotas are marketing numbers until you measure your burn rate, and most developers never take that second step. I have spent the last few weeks building reproducible harnesses for free coding models, and the number that matters most is never printed in the README. It is the tokens consumed pe…

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  1. 2026-09-04 11:08 · DEV Community — AI
    The 10M Token Question Nobody Asks: Where Do the Tokens Actually Go?

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