Posts tagged "cost optimization"

The Cost Curve: How Context Length Affects Your API Bill (With Formulas)

A 20-turn conversation costs quadratically more than you'd expect. Here are the exact formulas for multi-turn conversation costs across providers.

We Benchmarked 14 LLMs for Code Analysis. The Cheapest One That Works Costs 56× Less Than Claude Opus.

A real cost-vs-accuracy benchmark of DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, Qwen, Sonnet, Opus, and GPT-5 for indexing codebases. Why per-file LLM analysis isn't actually expensive if you pick the right model.