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What Is Token & LLM Cost Optimization

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What Is a Token in LLMs? A Developer's Guide to Cost Optimization and Architecture Understanding how LLM tokens work is the difference between an AI feature that costs $50/month and one that runs up a $5,000 AWS/OpenAI bill. Here is the engineering breakdown of tokenization algorithms, input vs. ou…

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  1. 2026-09-07 14:35 · DEV Community — AI
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