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How much does an LLM charge per hour for its services? If we multiple the Cost Per Output Token with Tokens Per Second, we can get the cost for what an LLM produces in Dollars Per Hour. (We’re ignoring the input cost, but it’s not the main driver of time.) Over time, different models have been released at different billing rates. New powerful models like O3 cost ~$7/hr – Poland’s minimum wage rate. Gemini 2.5 Pro costs ~$12/hr – France’s minimum wage rate. The latest Claude 4 Sonnet costs ~$2/hr – India’s minimum wage rate. ...

How much does an LLM charge per hour for its services? If we multiple the Cost Per Output Token with Tokens Per Second, we can get the cost for what an LLM produces in Dollars Per Hour. (We're ignoring the input cost, but it's not the main driver of time.) Over time, different models have been released at different billing rates. Most new powerful models like O3 or Gemini 2.5 Pro cost ~$7 - $11 per hr. ...

Change management can be analytic, as opposed to touchy-feely. Our client’s operating margin was falling. The bosses wanted to offshore their back office. Others weren’t convinced. To manage this change, we needed three questions answered: Who’s not convinced? Why aren’t they convinced? What’ll convince them? Who’s not convinced? We plotted the level of support and importance of key people on the stakeholder support matrix. This split people into 4 groups (below). Then we showed it around to people and had them move people around on the matrix. ...