How I Cut My LLM API Costs by 70% Without Touching My Code
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I was staring at my monthly invoice from OpenAI, and it wasn't pretty. $214.37 for a side project that wasn't even generating revenue yet. My first instinct was to blame the model—maybe GPT-4 was just too expensive for what I was building. So I switched to a cheaper model, and my users immediately…
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- 2026-10-08 00:55 · DEV Community — AI
How I Cut My LLM API Costs by 70% Without Touching My Code