Articles tagged “cost-optimization”
6 articles
Everyone Benchmarks Opus. Your Chatbot Runs on Haiku.
Haiku 4.5, GPT-5 Mini, Gemini Flash at the $1/MTok tier that powers CX. Tool-call accuracy, first-token latency, structured-output reliability, blended cost math.
Your Agent Should Use Three Models, Not One
Production CX agents route tasks by difficulty, not brand loyalty. The planner/router/summarizer pattern, a concrete rubric, support-deflection cost math, and the failure modes nobody warns you about.
Reasoning Tokens Are Showing Up on the Bill
GPT-5 and Claude thinking tokens bill as output and stay invisible. A 200-token reply can hide 8,000 billable ones. How to measure, cap, and budget.
A 1B Model Just Matched the 70B. Here's How.
How to distill frontier LLMs into small, cheap models that retain 98% accuracy on agent tasks. The teacher-student pattern, NVIDIA's data flywheel, and the Plan-and-Execute architecture that cuts agent costs by 90%.
Why Your AI Bill Is 30x Too High
Small language models match GPT-3.5 at 2% of the size and 95% less cost. Benchmarks, code, and a migration story from $13K/month to $400.
Your AI Agent Costs $13K/Month. Here's the Fix.
A production customer-service agent burned $13,247 in one month. Prompt caching, model routing, batch processing, and plan-and-execute architecture cut it to $1,100. Real pricing math for every technique.
The Signal Briefing
Un email por semana. Cómo los equipos líderes de CS, ingresos e IA están convirtiendo conversaciones en decisiones. Benchmarks, playbooks y lo que funciona en producción.
