EDUCATION & TRAINING
How to Cut Your LLM API Bill 70-85% in 2026
Dev.to Machine Learning
About This Tutorial
What this guide gets you If you ship anything agentic, your LLM API bill has probably tripled in twelve months - not because prices rose, but because agents make far calls than chatbots ever did. The good news: most of that spend is recoverable. Five levers, applied in the right order, routinely cut a production LLM bill by 70-85% without touching what the model actually produces. Caching is the biggest single win - cache hits can save up to roughly 90%, and Anthropic cached reads cost about 10% of the base input price.