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Anthropic's per-token cost runs 4.4 times the average on Vercel, and developers keep paying: Anthropic dominated Vercel's AI Gateway spending in July, pulling in 65.1 percent of total revenue while accounting for only 30 percent of tokens processed. Its tokens cost 4.4 times as much as those from competing providers on average. The article Anthropic's per-token cost runs 4.4 times the average on Vercel, and developers keep paying appeared first on The Decoder .

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Anthropic's per-token cost runs 4.4 times the average on Vercel, and developers keep paying: Anthropic dominated Vercel's AI Gateway spending in July, pulling in 65.1 percent of total revenue while accounting for only 30 percent of tokens processed. Its tokens cost 4.4 times as much as those from competing providers on average. The article Anthropic's per-token cost runs 4.4 times the average on Vercel, and developers keep paying appeared first on The Decoder .