📖What it means

What each model costs per token, by provider. It is what turns a token count into money, and it is recorded rather than assumed — a wrong rate makes every downstream number wrong quietly.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Budget cap", "distinction": "The rate card says what things cost; a cap says how much may be spent."}, {"term": "Provider", "distinction": "The provider serves the model; the rate card prices it."}]

📖Also called

- price list
- per-token rate
- pricing

📖Filed under

Category: general.

Service: Cost Center.