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How much does it cost to run a text game with LLMs
Community description: I log every AI call my game makes, so I finally checked the token prices against the bills. The rate card was wrong about almost everything.
Dev.to | Nov 8, 2026 | Aliaksei Zelianouski
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Different models produce different amount of input tokens on the same text. Claude Haiku 5.5 averaged 13,473 input tokens a turn. Don't choose models by the price per token.
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