The 45x billing gap documented across four models running an identical prompt
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Internal Microsoft data on AI token costs at scale, surfaced this week, confirms what finance teams are beginning to find: the per-query math doesn't hold at production volume.
The 45x billing gap documented across four models running an identical prompt
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