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Measure Tokens Per Feature to Tame LLM Costs

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer found that provider dashboards grouping usage by model hid which features drove cost growth. By tagging each LLM request with a feature name, they could pinpoint expensive operations like document summarization or agent retries. This approach enables targeted optimization instead of blindly switching to cheaper models.

Meridian48 take
The advice is sound but basic; any team with multiple LLM features should already be instrumenting per-feature metrics.
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