#AI tokens
3 articles tagged AI tokens. At twelve articles this topic starts lifting the whole site in search.
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What prompt caching is — from the second call, your input costs one-fortieth
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What an AI token is — how much text $10 per million tokens actually buys
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What AI token pricing is — why output costs about 5× input
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Tech · 4 min readWhat prompt caching is — from the second call, your input costs one-fortieth
Mechanism — an identical prefix yields identical intermediate values, which can be stored
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Tech · 4 min readWhat an AI token is — how much text $10 per million tokens actually buys
Unit — a token is a word fragment, not a word, and counts differ sharply by language
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Tech · 5 min readWhat AI token pricing is — why output costs about 5× input
Billing is per token, with separate input and output rates — output typically costs four to five times input