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Energy Costs of LLM Inference on GPUs Show Token-Normalized Metrics Are Incomplete

LLM inference serving is priced per token, but GPU energy consumption occurs over inference windows, causing token-normalized energy metrics to be misleading. The study introduces a decomposed energy model separating fixed prefill costs from per-token generation costs to better characterize energy...

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-08-28T08:07:23+00:00 Detected 2026-08-31T05:22:07+00:00
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LLM inference serving is priced per token, but GPU energy consumption occurs over inference windows, causing token-normalized energy metrics to be misleading. The study introduces a decomposed energy model separating fixed prefill costs from per-token generation costs to better characterize energy...

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Large language model (LLM) inference serving is priced by tokens, but GPU energy is consumed over inference windows. This accounting mismatch makes token-normalized metrics incomplete, since average output-token energy can decrease even when total request energy increases. We characterize this behavior with a...

Understanding the true energy costs of LLM inference is crucial for optimizing pricing and efficiency on GPU platforms. This model helps clarify how total request energy can increase even if average output-token energy decreases, impacting cost and sustainability assessments.

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