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Average cost per million LLM tokens drops to 97 cents, down from $2.07 May high
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The LLM Token Expenditure Index fell to an average of 97 cents per million tokens, declining sharply from a high of $2.07 recorded on May 28.
Token pricing directly determines the operating cost of any application that calls LLM APIs at scale, and a drop of more than 50% in under three months materially changes build-vs-buy and batching decisions. Engineers projecting infrastructure budgets should treat this as a real pricing shift, not a temporary dip, until the index shows otherwise.
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The LLM Token Expenditure Index average fell to 97 cents per million tokens.
The index hit a high of $2.07 on May 28 before the current sharp decline.
The decline has been sustained over several months and reached a fresh low this week.
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