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API Cost Monitoring Tips & Guides
Learn how to track, optimize, and reduce your AI API spending.
How to Monitor OpenAI API Costs: A Complete Guide
Learn how to track, monitor, and reduce your OpenAI API spending with real-time dashboards, budget alerts, and per-model cost breakdowns.
AI API Pricing Comparison 2026: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google vs DeepSeek
A side-by-side breakdown of pricing for GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0, and DeepSeek V3. Find out which provider gives you the most value.
5 Proven Strategies to Reduce Your AI API Costs by 40%
Practical tips for cutting API spend without sacrificing quality: model routing, caching, prompt optimization, budget alerts, and usage auditing.
Anthropic Claude API Costs: Pricing, Caching, and Optimization Tips
Everything you need to know about Claude API pricing — from Haiku to Opus. Learn how prompt caching can cut your Anthropic bill by up to 90%.
How to Set Up API Budget Alerts (and Why You Need Them Yesterday)
Stop getting surprised by your AI API bill. Learn how to configure daily spend thresholds, spike detection, and monthly budget warnings via email, Slack, and webhooks.
How Prompt Caching Can Cut Your AI API Costs by 90%
A deep dive into prompt caching from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google — how it works, how much it saves, and best practices for maximizing cache hit rates.
Model Routing: How to Cut AI API Costs 40-70% Without Losing Quality
Send cheap tasks to cheap models. Learn how to build a model routing layer that dramatically reduces API spend by matching request complexity to model capability.
API Proxy Keys: Track AI Costs for Any Provider Without an Admin API
Many AI providers don't offer usage APIs. Learn how proxy-based cost tracking works and why it's the fastest way to get visibility into your API spend.
How to Monitor Costs Across Multiple AI Providers in One Dashboard
Using OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google? Here's how to consolidate your API cost tracking into a single view and make data-driven routing decisions.
API Tokens Explained: How They Work and Why They Cost What They Do
A beginner-friendly guide to AI API tokens — what they are, how input vs output tokens affect your bill, and practical ways to reduce token usage.
DeepSeek vs OpenAI: Is the 89% Cost Saving Worth the Tradeoff?
A practical comparison of DeepSeek V3 and R1 vs GPT-4o and o1. When to switch, when to stick, and how a hybrid approach gives you the best of both.
Groq and Fireworks AI: When Fast Inference Is Worth the Price
Ultra-fast AI inference with Groq's LPUs and Fireworks AI — when latency matters more than per-token pricing, and how to track costs for these providers.