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Token-based pricing: how AI usage billing works (2026)

calendar_today September 18, 2026 person Lyne Carolyne domain cloudzero

A finance guide to token-based AI pricing in 2026: how input and output tokens turn into dollars, what the major models charge per million tokens, the discounts and surcharges that move the effective rate, and how to forecast and govern the bill. The post Token-based pricing: how AI usage billing works (2026) appeared first on CloudZero .

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