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The real cost of AI inference is not the token price

Most teams track their AI spend the wrong way. They look at the price per million tokens and call that the cost. It is not. The cost that matters is what you pay for an answer you can actually use. I learned this building a small toolkit I call the AI Inference Control Plane. It runs model configur…

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  1. 2026-11-07 23:42 · DEV Community — AI
    The real cost of AI inference is not the token price

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