BCG波士顿咨询：2026年Token（词元）成本管理洞察报告：管控Token成本的三大支柱（英文版）

Over the past years, the price per token – the unit in which AI providers meter and bill every request and every response – has declined significantly as models, hardware, and inference infrastructure have improved. At first glance, this suggests that AI should become an increasingly inexpensive resource for organizations. But focusing on unit economics alone misses the bigger picture – token consumption is growing much faster than token prices are falling. As generative AI moves from experim