Cost and speed
Why I tried to kill token billing (and why we kept it)
Our short summary of Stripe’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.
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Customers needed a way to track AI usage costs without exposing token details in invoices
Solution
Built a token‑billing system that records model usage, applies markups, and lets teams monitor costs, while keeping pricing logic separate from the invoice
Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.
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