AI prompt costs are opaque and hard to estimate before running them
Developers and teams using LLM APIs have no easy way to estimate token usage and cost before running prompts, leading to budget surprises. Existing provider dashboards show post-hoc costs but offer no pre-flight estimation. The problem compounds when comparing costs across models like GPT-4o, Claude, and Gemini.
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