🌱 AI Engineering · Ship to Production · cozy lesson
Understanding AI App Costs
9 min · 1 min read · no scary math, promise
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Example: 2k in + 500 out at $0.15/$0.60 per 1M ≈ $0.0006/query. 1M queries = $600. Cut with: exact/semantic cache, top-K 3 not 10, Haiku/mini for triage, route hard to big model.
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