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Token consumption, model costs, and tool-related expenses are measured per run, agent, or workflow. Typical conditions for use: Costs must be capped or allocated; Agents autonomously execute loops. The central trade-off: Better budget control is gained against additional measurement and aggregation effort.
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What organizes, connects, or makes decisions possible.
Token and cost tracking records language-model consumption and attributes it to requests, models, or workflows.
The approach comes from observability and FinOps, where telemetry explains service cost and performance. LLM observability extended this measurement to tokens and model costs.
Every call leaves a receipt of input and output tokens, model, and price. Totals reveal trends, limits stop outliers, and samples check attribution.
Consumption is recorded per call.
Costs are assigned to workflows.
Budgets limit surprises.
Token and cost tracking makes model operations budgetable. It fits production LLM systems; prices and billing rules must stay current.
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These sources establish the term and its professional meaning.
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