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5 Practical Ways to Reduce AI Inference Costs

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Running an AI agent cheaply in demos is easy, but real production traffic can make costs skyrocket. Five key strategies can cut those bills significantly: routing simple queries to cheaper models saves 40-70%, caching repeated prompts cuts input token costs by 90%, and right-sizing models reduces per-token costs dramatically.

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