Why Your OpenAI Bill Is 3x What It Should Be
Six wasteful patterns: oversize contexts, no caching, retry storms, log-and-call, model picked too high, eval not gating. Fix each one.
Cutting your inference bill 5-10x. Real numbers from real apps.
4 working guides in this section.
Six wasteful patterns: oversize contexts, no caching, retry storms, log-and-call, model picked too high, eval not gating. Fix each one.
Real before/after on a customer support agent. Where caching saved 60% and where it added latency.
When does buying a GPU rental beat paying per-token? Throughput, utilization, ops cost.
Route easy queries to small models, escalate only when needed. Routing logic, eval gates, cost numbers.