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How to estimate your LLM inference bill before you ship (with Python)

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Most unexpected LLM bills start with a misleadingly cheap prototype. Someone tests a feature with a handful of short prompts, checks the usage dashboard and concludes that inference costs almost nothing. Then the application reaches production. Prompts get longer, retrieval adds context, conversati…

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