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This article is part of our comprehensive guide to usage-based billing with UsageBox. The full content will be available soon as we expand our documentation.
Article Summary
Output costs 4-6x input, caching you skip, RAG bloat, retries, batch vs real-time, and tokenizer gaps turn a "$2/M" model into $9-12/M. We work a $1,400 headline into a $3,900 invoice and show how to measure your real per-call cost.
Key Topics
- • LLM pricing
- • cost optimization
- • hidden costs
- • token pricing
- • AI billing
- • May 2026