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LLM cost tracking

Definition

LLM cost tracking is measuring what each model call and each agent run costs, from input and output tokens multiplied by the model's price, and attributing it to a project, user, feature or release.

In more detail

Cost per run and cost per task matter more than the monthly bill alone, because a retry loop or an oversized prompt shows up as one expensive run long before it moves the total.

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