Per-Token Pricing Is Misleading: Multiple Rollouts for Reliability Spike Costs
andreisavu · x · 2026-08-28
The author argues that per-token pricing is often misleading because improving reliability frequently requires running multiple rollouts and selecting or merging outputs, which significantly drives up actual costs.
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