AI Economics
The numbers behind every AI product.
Plain-English guides on tokens, inference, embeddings, RAG, and AI unit economics — for the people actually shipping the things.
How much does GPT cost?
Break down per-token pricing across the OpenAI lineup.
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What a token actually is, and why output tokens cost more.
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Pragmatic levers to cut your inference bill by 40%+.
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When Anthropic wins on reasoning, and when OpenAI wins on price.
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The new wave of fast, affordable open and hosted models.
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Vector DBs, embeddings, retrieval — the real bill of a RAG app.
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Unit economics for AI SaaS, explained with real numbers.
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What happens between your prompt and the model's response.
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