Free Lesson
Cut Your LLM Costs by 60%
30 min
Sep 7, 2026 1:30 PM
What you'll learn
Work out what a token really costs you
Build a cost model from your own traffic mix rather than list pricing.
Apply model tiering and caching safely
Route cheap work to cheap models without users noticing a quality drop
Set usage controls that fail safely
Add limits that degrade gracefully instead of breaking mid-request.
Why this topic matters
Cost moved from an afterthought to something interviewers grade explicitly and financeteams ask about every month. Around a third of engineers now hit usage limits, andbudget holders assume the number only goes up. Most of that spend is avoidable, andthe levers that move it are architectural rather than clever.
