Why AI Tokens are so Expensive - Computerphile
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Computerphile explains that AI tokens are expensive because large language models must repeatedly process every input and output token from scratch (especially in long contexts and autonomous coding tasks) causing computational demands and costs to scale rapidly with usage.
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Most modern providers will charge you somewhere around $2 to $3 for a million input tokens and something like $15 for a million output tokens.
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