Concept
API Call Pricing
A vendor's list price that bundles inference cost, amortized research and development, and profit, typically billed per token. It is transparent and requires no operations work.
Timeline (last 90 days)
Oct 29
Community discussion points out that frontier analysis should distinguish between API call pricing and total self-hosting costs, as the economics of the two are entirely different.
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Oct 29
API call pricing is usually billed by token, is transparent, and requires no operations.
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