01Deep dive
Meaning and practical implications
Count system instructions, retrieved context, tool results, and generated output when estimating token use. Add retries and orchestration costs when comparing a single call with an agent workflow.
LLM inference executes a language model on a prompt or other supported input to produce output tokens. An application may make several inference calls to complete one user task.
Count system instructions, retrieved context, tool results, and generated output when estimating token use. Add retries and orchestration costs when comparing a single call with an agent workflow.
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