Verified65% confidenceFactExact time
Output Tokens are typically 2-4x more expensive than input Tokens because generation requires autoregressive decoding Token by Token, with each generated Token requiring a complete forward pass computation
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65%
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Medium-term (~90 days)
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7/28/2026
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Token Economics: The New Unit of Value Measurement in the AI Era
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