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Don't use a powerful, expensive model like GPT-5 or Claude 4.1 for simple tasks like reformatting text, correcting grammar, or classifying sentiment. Use a smaller, faster, and cheaper model like GPT-4o-mini or a fine-tuned open-source model. This is a key principle of cost-effective AI development.

System prompts are often re-sent with every API call. Keep them concise to save tokens. Use abbreviations or keywords if the model is fine-tuned or understands them.

System prompts are often re-sent with every API call. Keep them concise to save tokens. Use abbreviations or keywords if the model is fine-tuned or understands them.

Many LLM APIs allow you to specify which fields you want in the response. Only request the data you need (e.g., just the generated text, not full logprobs if unused) to reduce data transfer and processing.

Use a tokenizer tool (like the one on TokenCalculator.com!) to see how your text is split into tokens. This helps you understand why certain phrasing might consume more tokens and how to optimize it.

In conversational AI, the entire chat history is often sent with each new message, increasing token count. Summarize or truncate past history for long conversations to manage costs.

For the most cost-effective solution, GPT-3.5-Turbo often provides 80% of GPT-4's quality at 10% of the cost.

Implement caching strategies for repeated queries to reduce API calls and costs.

Use TokenCalculator.com to estimate costs before running expensive operations.

If you have many small, independent tasks for an LLM, batch them into a single API call if the model and API support it, rather than many separate calls. This can reduce overhead.

If you perform a specific task repeatedly with long prompts, consider fine-tuning a smaller model. This can significantly reduce token count and improve performance for that task.

In chat applications, analyze how much of the conversation history is repeated tokens. Strategies like summarization can reduce this significantly.

Beyond exact-match caching, consider semantic caching. If a new prompt is semantically similar to a previously cached one, you might be able to reuse the old response, potentially saving an API call.