Question

A practitioner is estimating the operational cost of integrating a cloud-hosted LLM API into an application. How does tokenization affect the cost of using this API?

Accepted Answer

D. The number of tokens determines the per-request cost.

Answer

Tokenization has no impact because pricing is based on a flat-rate subscription.

Answer

Costs are determined by the number of API calls.

Answer

Tokenization increases cost by requiring additional GPU run time.