Comment by nomel

> but the published data immediately seems to admit that this is a bad choice of unit because it costs a lot more to output a token than input one

And, that's silly, because API pricing is more expensive for output than input tokens, 5x so for Anthropic [1], and 6x so for OpenAI!

[1] https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing

[2] https://openai.com/api/pricing