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How I Cut My LLM API Bills by 40% (And Built a Free Cost Calculator)

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If you are building anything with LLMs right now, you know the pain. You start with OpenAI's GPT-4, everything works great, and then you look at your monthly bill and realize your side project is bleeding money. I recently started building a multi-model workflow. I use Claude for complex reasoning…

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  1. 2026-10-28 09:16 · DEV Community — AI
    How I Cut My LLM API Bills by 40% (And Built a Free Cost Calculator)

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