Equation 10 · Part 3 · Comparing Frontier Model Pricing Without Comparing Apples to Oranges
Symbol h_i
What this part means
the fraction of input served from cache and the cache-read multiplier.
Its job in the formula
is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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Where the article explains it
For vendor i , let and be the published input and output rates; let be a tokenizer expansion factor, the number of tokens vendor i ’s own tokenizer needs to encode one fixed reference passage, normalised so = 1 for whichever vendor is used as the baseline; let be the fraction of input served from cache and the cache-read multiplier; and let be the ratio of total output tokens generated, visible answer plus hidden reasoning, to the visible answer alone.
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…let be a tokenizer expansion factor, the number of tokens vendor i ’s own tokenizer needs to encode one fixed reference passage, normalised so = 1 for whichever vendor is used as the baseline; let be the fraction of input served from cache and the cache-read multiplier; and let be the ratio of total output tokens generated, visible answer plus hidden reasoning, to the visible answer alone. A workload’s realised cost per completed task is then approximately [displayed…
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Sources cited in the article section
- [8] Comparison of AI Models across Intelligence, Performance, and Price ↗
- [7] LLM Inference Price Trends ↗
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