Free Lesson
AI Costs That Won't Wreck Your Margins
60 min
Feb 1, 2027 9:00 PM
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What you'll learn
See where your LLM money actually goes
Name the four cost drivers — model tier, tokens, retries, context bloat — before you optimize anything.
Pull the levers: route, cache, trim
Cut the average bill with model routing, caching, and trimmed context — checked so quality never drops.
Cap the worst day the model can't cross
Set a per-session spend cap enforced outside the model — loud and fail-closed — so a runaway can't happen.
Why this topic matters
Your agent works. Your bill doesn't — and you can't fully explain why. The idea this hour proves: cost is an engineering choice, not a surprise. Every dollar was decided in code — model tier, tokens, retries, context bloat. So I route, cache, and trim to cut the average bill without touching quality, and put a hard spend cap outside the model — the one the agent can't loop past — to protect the worst day. Deploy.
