Posts tagged llm-cost

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• LLM Token Usage: Why a 4-Token Answer Bills 217 Tokens

  July 13, 2026 · token-usage · llm-cost · reasoning

  Measured across GPT-5.6, Claude Fable 5, Qwen3.7-max and five more families: reasoning dominates the output bill. How to read every usage field, and cap them.

• Prompt Cache Minimums: The Docs Under-State by 1.4-2.4x

  July 12, 2026 · prompt-cache · llm-cost · evaluation

  Vendors publish a prompt-cache token minimum. Measured across LLM families, auto-cache needs 1.4-2.4x more than the docs say; Claude's explicit cache is exact.

• Which LLM Is Cheapest for Your Language? Tokenizer Costs Measured

  July 8, 2026 · claude-fable-5 · tokenizer · llm-cost · i18n

  GPT-5.5 bills fewest tokens for European languages, Kimi for Chinese, DeepSeek for Japanese; Claude Fable 5, Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 run 1.2-2.3x. Measured.