Pratyusha Duvvuri on the Cost of AI Tokens

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Pratyusha Duvvuri in a lavender T-shirt beside the blue and white headline The Cost of AI Tokens on black.
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    Pratyusha Duvvuri describes competing definitions of token economics and the different needs of engineers, managers and finance teams. She discusses the trade-off between model cost and quality, and explains how varied provider agreements complicate comparisons.

    She presents an approach to consolidating usage dataToken volume is the total number of input, output, cached, or reasoning tokens an AI workload processes over a defined period or task. and mapping it to organisational and financial hierarchiesA data pipeline moves information through ordered collection, transformation and delivery steps for use by software or AI.. A demonstration of her team’s product illustrates cost and adoption views, while she distinguishes reporting lines from finance ownership.

    Duvvuri closes by discussing the challenges of a rapidly changing product, different audiences and reconciling data that providers may revise over time.

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    Pratyusha Duvvuri in a lavender T-shirt beside the blue and white headline The Cost of AI Tokens on black. With WWW.ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE.VIDEO, 9 November 2026 and duration 18m 57s.

    Pratyusha Duvvuri explains why AI token costs are difficult to track across providers, teams and finance structures.