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Token Economics

Reviewed 9 April 2026 Canonical definition

Token economics is the practice of tracking, budgeting, and optimising the token consumption of AI agents across models and tasks. It includes cost attribution, per-agent budgets, and alerts when usage exceeds thresholds.

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