The Token Pricing Illusion: Understanding AI Inference Economics

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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2026-10-02 14:12 · CoreWeave Blog
The Token Pricing Illusion: Understanding AI Inference Economics

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