> [others] Output tokens: ~5x more expensive than input tokens.

> [them] Output tokens: FREE (too cheap to meter).

I'm very confused by this.

The output tokens are just responses to your inputed questions and their probability. So relatively few output tokens. No unstructured text back in the response.

They're not doing autoregression, so all the outputs are computed in one big forward pass. Very cheap.

I think OP is confused about "others" vs "them".

they’re talking about two totally different things, right?

it's our output tokens that are free (under the system one / jev column)