token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
Why it matters
If you bill, chargeback or report energy per request, the tokenThe chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.Full definition →-proportional rule most systems use is substantially wrong under batching. This gives measured Shapley ground truth and a cheap feature-based calibrator that closes most of the gap.
