Understand how token pricing, context windows, and prompt engineering choices translate directly into your monthly AI infrastructure bill.
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Token economics is the financial engineering discipline of production AI. Every byte in your prompt has a price. Context windows have hard ceilings. Caching, batching, and prompt compression are the levers that keep costs linear as usage scales. This topic covers the math behind pricing, the architectural decisions that dominate your bill, and the techniques that cut costs without sacrificing quality.
