Your Free Token Budget Has a Queue Tax: Measure Cost Per Completed Request
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Your nightly summarization job missed its 06:00 deadline. The model endpoint reported p50 latency at 812 ms. Healthy, said the dashboard. The queue depth told a different story. You moved the job to a free model endpoint to cut spend. Token cost dropped to zero. Completion time tripled. You traded…
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- 2026-08-26 10:50 · DEV Community — AI
Your Free Token Budget Has a Queue Tax: Measure Cost Per Completed Request