Why Our LLM Bill Hit $31k Instead of $12k (The 4 Production Traps No Pricing Page Shows)
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Our Q2 LLM infrastructure bill came in at $31k against a $12k budget . After reverse-engineering every line item, we found that naive token math (multiplying input + output tokens from a model pricing page) completely fails once you run multi-turn agentic loops in production. Here are the four trap…
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- 2026-09-12 16:15 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Why Our LLM Bill Hit $31k Instead of $12k (The 4 Production Traps No Pricing Page Shows)