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A 17% Drop in Output Tokens Sounded Big. Then I Decomposed the Bill

Output pricing fell 16.67% and output tokens fell about 17%. Adding those numbers does not give you the savings. Here is an exact price/volume/cross-term decomposition, plus a loop measurement where the savings rate went down instead of up.