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Four places your LLM API bill leaks money (and 5 free reviews)

Most LLM bills I look at waste money in the same four places. If you run a product on OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini, check these first. 1. The same prompt prefix, sent uncached on every call A long system prompt, tool definitions or retrieved docs that are identical on every request. Cached input is…

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  1. 2026-11-13 12:15 · DEV Community — AI
    Four places your LLM API bill leaks money (and 5 free reviews)

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