Rung 10 / What a task actually costs

Inference & Token-Pricing Economics

The economics of serving models — what a token costs to make, and what it sells for.

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A small precision balance with a copper weight on one pan, on paper.

In scope: token pricing trends, inference gross margins, the AI-lab P&L question, and how memory, optics and foundry cost structure feed through to the price of a token.

A brass-and-paper gauge with a copper bezel: token price in, task price out.
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01The Cost-Measurement Problemactive02Cost Per Task (Cost-of-Pass)active03The Energy Cost of Tokens (Photons = Tokens)early stage04Inference Cost as a Macro Input (the Inference-Cost Phillips Curve)early stage05Inference & Token Economicsactive06The Price-Decline Distributionactive07Price-Rung Persistencepartly-falsified08Token Pricing & the Inference-Margin Questionactive
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