Audit finds $1,200 vs $14

- A community-shared token/cost audit showed a service billed roughly $1,200 in cloud costs while the actual consumable cost measured was about $14. - The post called this a concrete example of runaway token and compute waste in LLM workloads when instrumentation is missing. - That example circulated as a cautionary tale for teams that don’t reconcile token usage with billing and FinOps dashboards. (x.com)