Glossary
Cost per token.
Cost per token measures the economic cost of producing or processing model tokens. It is affected by hardware price, utilization, model size, runtime efficiency, cache hit rate, batching, energy, cooling, network, and operational overhead.
Why it matters
servescale.ai treats $/token as a first-class infrastructure metric rather than an after-the-fact billing detail.
servescale.ai context
servescale.ai uses this concept to explain why enterprise inference needs a private, governed, model-aware, topology-aware, and economics-first control plane.
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