# "80% of the economic value of LLMs come from 20% of the tokens"

> Source: <https://xcancel.com/PeterBerezinBCA/status/2062498419478782163>
> Published: 2026-06-04 19:33:23+00:00

80% of the economic value of LLMs come from 20% of the tokens. There is a long tail of dubious token usage that can be greatly curtailed without much negative impact on productivity.

Sam Altman said AI budgeting has recently become a "huge issue" for some companies, something that "never came up" earlier this year.

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