AI Fees Blog

A practical playbook: model right-sizing, prompt caching, batch tiers, output capping and the routing pattern that actually moves the needle.

Three production tasks, three frontier models, one cost spreadsheet. Where each one wins and where you're overpaying.

A 200-token answer can hide 3,000 tokens of thinking. Here's how to measure it, when it's worth it, and when to stay with a regular chat model.

50% off sounds great until you realize you waited 18 hours. The decision math behind sync vs batch for real workloads.

DeepSeek V3 and Alibaba Qwen offer eye-watering price-to-performance. Latency, reliability, compliance — what to weigh before flipping the switch.