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BYOK is metered and charged per request rather than as a percentage of usage cost; inference itself is billed by the user's provider.
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50%
Confidence
Medium-term (~90 days)
Relevance
10/17/2026
First Seen
Valid until: 1/15/2027
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UnverifiedIn BYOK mode, inference costs are billed to the user's own provider account at contract prices and do not consume platform credits.78% similarUnverifiedUsage-based billing is the opposite of the quota system: users do not pay for a fixed allowance, but are settled according to the actual number of tokens or requests called, with the price growing linearly with usage.76% similarUnverifiedThe unit price of input tokens is usually cheaper than that of output tokens, but input tokens are billed on every request.69% similarUnverifiedIn BYOK mode, requests are sent directly from the user's side to the model provider, and costs are charged to the user's account based on actual usage.68% similar
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