LLM API Token Count Impact: Reducing Cost in Ordinary Tenant Apps
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A practical rule: cap and measure retrieved context per tenant before tuning prompts. Token count drives LLM API cost because providers bill around the amount of text processed, and private-knowledge applications can send the same large documents repeatedly. Keep the answer quality target fixed, th…
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- 2026-10-27 23:42 · DEV Community — AI
LLM API Token Count Impact: Reducing Cost in Ordinary Tenant Apps