cost

Pricing and cost optimisation

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Claude (Anthropic)Claude is Anthropic's family of models, offered through claude.ai, the Claude API, Claude Code, and cloud platforms (Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Foundry, and Claude Platform on…
Cost and cachingLLM costs are driven by tokens: input, output (including thinking), and cached input. Most savings come from not reprocessing the same context, choosing the right effort and model for each task,…
Reasoning models and extended thinkingReasoning models generate internal reasoning ("thinking") before their final answer. Spending more compute at inference time this way improves results on maths, coding, planning, and multi-step…
Tokens and context windowsModels read and write tokens, not characters or words. A tokenizer splits text into sub-word pieces from a fixed vocabulary. Everything about using an LLM is measured in tokens: price, speed, rate…