AI API Pricing Per Request: What Does Each Call Actually Cost?
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Per-Request Cost Breakdown LLM pricing is typically quoted per 1M tokens, which makes it hard to intuit what a single API call actually costs. This table breaks it down for a typical request: 1,000 input tokens (a moderate system prompt + user message) and 500 output tokens (a paragraph-length response