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Andrey Altrouter

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Joined on Aug 12, 2026 https://altrouter.ai/

Andrey Altrouter

Oct 25

The model fixed one character and billed you for retyping all 497 lines

#ai #llm #cost #beginners

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Andrey Altrouter

Oct 24

Your chatbot's average call costs $0.006 — one pasted file can make it $2.03

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Oct 23

The "next version" of your LLM can cost 33% less — or 4x more

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Andrey Altrouter

Oct 22

The same prompt costs 1.64x more in Hindi than in English — one tokenizer ago it was 5.28x

#ai #llm #cost #beginners

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Oct 21

The model wrote 23 tokens and billed 150 — reasoning tokens are output you never see

#ai #llm #cost #beginners

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Oct 20

The same phone photo costs 1,120 tokens on Gemini and 14,364 on GPT-5.6

#ai #llm #cost #beginners

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Oct 19

That "be helpful and friendly" paragraph in your system prompt costs $708 a year

#ai #llm #cost #beginners

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Oct 18

Your nightly LLM job pays double — every big vendor gives 50% off for waiting a day

#ai #llm #cost #beginners

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Oct 17

$667 or $1,100 for the same 100,000 JSON extractions — and the price per token never changed

#ai #llm #cost #beginners

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Oct 16

Your AI agent re-reads its tool list on every step — that's 32% of the bill

#ai #llm #cost #agents

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Sep 11

You typed 6,000 tokens and got billed for 282,000

#ai #llm #cost #beginners

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Andrey Altrouter

Sep 11

622 of our 5,087 LLM API calls never returned an answer

#ai #llm #cost #beginners

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Andrey Altrouter

Sep 4

Your model reads 1M tokens and writes back 8K — and the gap lands on your input bill

#ai #llm #cost #beginners

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Sep 3

Your JSON output costs 2.6 more than the same data as CSV

#ai #llm #cost #beginners

4 min read

Andrey Altrouter

Sep 2

The same six-second AI video costs $0.27 or $3.20

#ai #api #cost #beginners

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Andrey Altrouter

Aug 16

Prompt caching has a break-even point, and it's 22%

#ai #llm #cost #beginners

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Aug 15

The cheap model is only cheap for half your tasks

#ai #llm #cost #beginners

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Andrey Altrouter

Aug 14

Your LLM gateway takes a cut. Seventeen lines of Python tell you how big.

#ai #llm #api #python

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Andrey Altrouter

Aug 13

Your LLM bill has two levers. Your team only pulls one.

#ai #llm #cost #programming

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Andrey Altrouter

Aug 12

Your model benchmark measures everything except the bill

#ai #llm #programming #cost

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