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Research, techniques, and production results for engineers reducing AI inference costs.

LLM Cost Optimization: Why Enterprises Overspend 50–90% and How to Fix It
Chris Cholette · February 2026 · 9 min read
LLM Model Routing: Automatically Send Every Query to the Cheapest Capable Model
Chris Cholette · May 2026 · 8 min read
Prompt Compression: Reduce LLM Token Costs by 2–20× Without Losing Quality
Chris Cholette · May 2026 · 7 min read
LoRA Adapters: Fine-Tune LLMs for 1% of the Cost of Full Fine-Tuning
Chris Cholette · May 2026 · 8 min read
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