41 articles tagged with Cost Optimization.
Haiku 5.5 is cheap enough to stop rationing subagent calls, but the 75% savings claim only holds if your prompts are short.
Most moderation, routing, and triage calls aren't generation problems. Clef proves it by answering in 38.8 milliseconds instead of seconds.
OpenAI priced GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of GPT-6 Astra and called it nearly as good at agentic coding. That claim is now a routing decision, not a headline.
Same sticker price, a real-world cost drop from speed and token efficiency. Here is who should move today and who can wait a sprint.
Google's benchmarks show a 70B model restoring in 37 seconds instead of minutes. The catch is a hash and a hardware match that silently refuses to restore when either is off.
Perplexity built its own key-value store because DynamoDB's read path and bill stopped fitting 50 KB search items. Here is the checklist for when leaving is justified.
The June to August promotion ended on September 1. Included Copilot credits fell 37% on Business and 44% on Enterprise while seat prices stayed flat. Here is the arithmetic and the controls.
Cutting a log bill is not a procurement exercise. It is four decisions about what you drop at the agent, what you index, how long you keep it, and what you never send at all.
Every log platform looks affordable at proof-of-concept volume and expensive at production volume. The pricing model, not the feature list, decides which one you can live with.
EC2 Capacity Blocks went up around 15% in January and again in July. The increases track the memory shortage, and they change which GPU cloud is actually cheapest for your workload.
Memory makers moved their wafers to HBM for AI accelerators, and DDR5 spot prices tripled. Here is how that reaches your instance bill and what actually reduces the exposure.
Small language models now handle most agent steps at a fraction of the cost, so pick per step instead of defaulting to a frontier model.
