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AI Token Cost: What Is a Token — and How Every Model Games the Count

Complaints about opaque AI pricing are flooding social media. Which ones hold up to scrutiny and which are just users' overactive imaginations? How do models slip past their own published rate cards? How do usage limits actually work, and why do companies benefit from keeping the explanations as vague as possible?

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