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Posts tagged “tokenization”.
May 28, 2026
When you send a message to an LLM, you are not paying for characters or words. You pay for tokens . A token is the unit the model splits text into before processing: every major model API bills on tokens. For an individual user, the language of a request changes what you spend-or how fast you burn…
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