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Usage-Based Billing
AI Glossary Term
What is Usage-Based Billing?
Definition
Pricing where costs scale with API calls, tokens, inference time, or consumed compute.
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Inference-Time Compute
The amount of processing power consumed while producing each response.
Test-Time Compute
Additional inference computation used during response generation to improve quality or reasoning.
Speculative Decoding
An inference acceleration method where a small draft model proposes tokens that a larger model verifies in parallel.
Sliding Window Attention
An attention pattern where each token attends only to a fixed-size window of nearby tokens to reduce compute.
Inference
The runtime phase where a trained model generates predictions or outputs.
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
A method that retrieves external knowledge and feeds it into generation at inference time.
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