Understanding how to optimize token cost requires looking at the equation for calculating cost per million tokens. In this equation, many enterprises evaluating AI infrastructure focus on the numerator: the cost per GPU per hour. For cloud deployments, this is the hourly rate paid to a cloud provider; for on-premises deployments, it’s the effective hourly cost derived from amortizing owned infrastructure. The real key to reducing token cost, however, lies in the denominator: maximizing the delivered token output. That denominator carries two business implications. Minimize token cost: When thi