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Five Keys to Controlling AI Token Costs

Model routing, semantic caching, prompt caching, reranking and response constraints are the five keys InfoWorld names for controlling AI token costs. We price each one at October 2026 list rates from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, flag what changed in prompt caching, and work through a support-bot example that takes a modelled $62,800 monthly bill to about $7,213.

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FinOps for AI: Smart, Proven Ways to Cut LLM, Agent and GPU Costs

FinOps for AI has moved from a niche discipline to the single biggest cost-control question facing technology leaders, and most organisations are discovering it the hard way — through an invoice nobody forecast. A large language model that costs pennies per request in a pilot becomes a six-figure annual line item once it is embedded […]

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