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Comments on No. 34 of 46 · Peter Piekarczyk · edition of Monday 9 November 2026

What 1.5T tokens cost per month

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A Peter P. post, later corrected, claimed that 1.5 trillion tokens a month would cost about $132M a year at list price. He now says that figure was 20x too high: with prompt caching, roughly 97% of an agent's tokens bill as cache reads at a small fraction of input…

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