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In API billing, the unit price of output tokens is generally higher than that of input tokens, because the generation process requires autoregressive inference token by token
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90%
Confidence
Medium-term (~90 days)
Relevance
7/12/2026
First Seen
Valid until: 10/10/2026(expired)
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