Beyond the price per token: Choosing the right OpenAI model on Amazon Bedrock for your workload
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Comparing models on dollars per million tokens misses what production workloads actually pay for: outcomes. This post shares an open-source benchmarking harness that measures cost per correct answer, agent trajectory cost, and rubric-graded deliverable quality across OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock.
Organizations building generative AI applications usually compare models the same way: dollars per million tokens. It’s the number on every pricing page, so it becomes the number in every spreadsheet. But production workloads don’t buy tokens. They buy outcomes: a resolved support ticket, a completed research brief, a correct financial summary. Between the pricing page and the outcome sit multipliers the sticker price ignores: how often the model is right, how many tokens it needs to get there,…
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