Token Waste: The Silent Tax on Every AI Team
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Token Waste: The Silent Tax on Every AI Tools ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini - all three charge per token. All three are silently inflated by how most people write prompts. Here’s the research, the real cost, and a free tool that fixes it. What every major AI charges per million tokens: Sources: Anthropic docs, Google Gemini API pricing page, published pricing guides. Prices as of May 2026. The AI pricing model is deceptively simple: you pay per token. What most engineers don’t realize is that a significant portion of the tokens they’re paying for carry zero informational value. They’re filler.