Most of Your LLM Spend Is Wasted on Calls That Don't Need a Frontier Model
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If your LLM bill looks like a flat line of frontier-model calls, you're probably overpaying by 70% or more for work that a cheaper model would do just as well. I'm not talking about a toy benchmark. I mean the actual shape of production traffic: extraction, classification, short rewrites, JSON shap…
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- 2026-08-25 07:31 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Most of Your LLM Spend Is Wasted on Calls That Don't Need a Frontier Model