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The Token Pricing Illusion: Understanding AI Inference Economics

This story is from 2026-09-08. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.

In production, the sticker price per million tokens is a poor proxy for real inference cost. The better metric is performance-adjusted cost per useful token: correct, relevant, and usable output.

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  1. 2026-09-08 18:15 · CoreWeave Blog
    The Token Pricing Illusion: Understanding AI Inference Economics

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