Guides

AI Token & Cost Guides

Short, practical explainers on how AI models count tokens, how pricing works, and where teams quietly overspend. Written for developers shipping on LLM APIs.

Basics

What Are AI Tokens?

Tokens explained: chunking, words-to-tokens conversion, context windows and why every API bill is counted in tokens.

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Cost optimization

Prompt Caching Guide

How OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and DeepSeek cache prompts — writes, reads, TTLs — and how to save 50–90% on repeated input.

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Cost optimization

10 Ways to Reduce LLM API Costs

Model right-sizing, batching, output caps, history trimming and more — ranked by effort-to-savings ratio.

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Reference

Context Window Comparison

All 51 supported models ranked by context size, with approximations for words, pages and codebases that fit inside.

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