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You’re paying for the AI to write code, so surely the expensive part is what it produces, right? I would have guessed something like 60/40 or maybe 70/30 skewed towards output. The reality is nothing like that. Real-world data from OpenRouter’s programming category shows 93.4% input tokens, 2.5% reasoning tokens, and just 4.0% output tokens. It’s almost entirely input.

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