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Budget for AI Delivery Costs

Sean discusses input and output token usage as part of the cost of delivering an AI product or service. Accounting treatment depends on the business and arrangement.

Sean Everett · Published

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AI token costs, LLM. Basically you push a piece of text through an LLM, you pay a token. It responds with a piece of text, you pay a token. So both exchanges you're paying. That's a cost of goods sold when you're using an LLM to deliver a product or service.

Recorded November 2025.

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