When a Cheap Model Is Enough
Most production LLM traffic does not need a frontier model. A practical framework for deciding which tasks can drop a tier without anyone noticing.
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What inference costs, and why the billing model matters.
Most production LLM traffic does not need a frontier model. A practical framework for deciding which tasks can drop a tier without anyone noticing.
ReadAgent spend follows a heavy-tailed distribution, so the average is a poor planning number. Here is how to budget from percentiles and bound the tail instead.
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