I Cut My LLM Bill 90% By Reading the Fine Print on Tokens
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I Cut My LLM Bill 90% By Reading the Fine Print on Tokens Last quarter, my team's LLM invoice came in at $3,247. Not a typo. Three grand, two-forty-seven. I stared at the line items like a person who just discovered their smart meter has been running a Bitcoin farm in the basement. That's the moment I started actually doing the math instead of just clicking "deploy" and hoping the CFO didn't notice. Fwiw, I wish someone had shoved this breakdown in front of me six months earlier — so here it is