The Token Bloat Trap: Stop Paying LLMs to Read DOM Trash
LLM token cost optimization requires stopping the practice of sending raw HTML to frontier models. Learn why shifting data cleaning to local...
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The 1M Token Lie: Why Massive Context Window Cost is Destroying SaaS Margins
Replacing RAG with a 1M token context window feels like a productivity hack. In reality, massive context window cost acts as a silent margin...
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MCP Server Sprawl: The Quiet Token Bill That's Eating Your AI Margin
Six MCP servers inject 90,000 tokens into every request before the model reasons. That is roughly $8,100 per month in pure schema overhead o...
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The xhigh Effort Trap: Why Opus 4.7's Recommended Default Is Quietly Inflating Your Agentic Bill 40%
Opus 4.7 introduced xhigh as the new default effort level for coding and agentic workloads. It produces 1.5-1.7x more output tokens than med...
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The Opus 4.7 Tokenizer Tax: Why Anthropic's 'Unchanged Pricing' Just Quietly Raised Your AI Bill 35%
Anthropic kept Opus 4.7 at the same $5/$25 sticker price as Opus 4.6. But the new tokenizer inflates input tokens up to 1.35x and the xhigh...
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