Tokens Are Compute — Why Your LLM Bill Is Really a GPU Bill
Most engineers reason about LLMs in words, characters, or messages. The model sees none of that — it sees tokens, and tokens are compute someone's GPU has to run. This post traces what a token actually is, why output costs 3–10x more than input, the five-step journey of an API call, and the four cost levers most teams never pull.
LLMTokenizationInference
