{"id":22,"date":"2025-03-10T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/?p=22"},"modified":"2025-03-10T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T08:15:00","slug":"how-to-cut-your-llm-api-bill-without-losing-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"How to Cut Your LLM API Bill Without Losing Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most teams overspend on LLM APIs not because the models are expensive, but because nobody owns the bill. A few structural changes cut costs by half without touching output quality.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Route tasks to the cheapest capable model<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Classification, extraction and short summaries do not need a flagship model. Route them to a small model and reserve the expensive one for reasoning-heavy steps. A two-tier routing setup typically moves 70 percent of the volume to the cheap tier.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trim the prompt, not the quality<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Input tokens are billed too. Audit your system prompts quarterly: boilerplate instructions, dead examples and redundant context accumulate silently. Cutting a 3,000-token system prompt to 1,200 tokens saves money on every single call your application makes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, cap output length explicitly. Models happily generate long answers when the task needs three sentences, and output tokens are the expensive ones.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most teams overspend on LLM APIs not because the models are expensive, but because nobody owns the bill. A few structural changes cut costs by half without touching output quality. Route tasks to the cheapest capable model Classification, extraction and short summaries do not need a flagship model. Route them to a small model and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}