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Track the economics of AI usage, from token accounting to cost per completed task. Connect spending to engineering outcomes rather than treating usage as value.

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  • Inference unit cost

    Inference unit cost is the expense of one defined model-serving unit such as a request or workflow. It gives teams a way to name, measure, or reason about an economic property of an AI workload without treating raw usage as proof of value.

    Token costs and AI ROI

  • Input token

    An input token is a unit of text or other encoded content sent to a language model before generation. The prompt, system instructions, conversation history, retrieved passages, and tool results can all contribute input tokens.

    Token costs and AI ROI

  • Input-output token mix

    Input-output token mix is the proportion of input and output tokens in a workload. It gives teams a way to name, measure, or reason about an economic property of an AI workload without treating raw usage as proof of value.

    Token costs and AI ROI