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> The fact that tokens aren't free will limit the number of unserious requests.

LLM costs are already pretty cheap (regardless of whether someone believes they'll continue falling).

For a recent example, see a relatively powerful LLM like DeepSeek Flash, where you can get a million tokens for $0.20. And if someone is OK with their task being batched (instead of executing it right now), that can lower prices too.

Inference price trends in previous years: https://epoch.ai/data-insights/llm-inference-price-trends



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