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The Real Cost of LLM APIs in 2026: A Developer's Field Guide

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Every week someone asks a version of the same question: "How much will this actually cost me per month?" And every week the answers are wildly wrong — usually because they're based on last year's prices, or on input tokens only, or on the assumption that output tokens cost the same as input. Here's…

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