LLM pricing is 100x harder than you think
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LLM cost attribution is far more complex than maintaining a simple JSON pricing file. Six key patterns break accurate cost tracking: thinking/reasoning tokens that are billed but invisible in responses, asymmetric cache pricing across providers, context-length-based pricing tiers that silently change rates, same models priced
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The 6 patterns that break pricingWhy It MattersHow Portkey's Gateway handles thisHow we keep 3,500+ models accuratePricing complexity isn't slowing downSort: