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# [Building With AI Is Easy. Paying for It at Scale Is Not: Welcome to the Token Economy](https://osmexo.hashnode.dev/building-with-ai-is-easy-paying-for-it-at-scale-is-not-welcome-to-the-token-economy?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

An estimated 500T+ LLM tokens a week, what they cost a real app, and how to pay less per token

13h ago · 7 min read · osmexo.hashnode.dev  
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