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Your LLM Bill is a Ticking Time Bomb. Here's How to Defuse It.

Dev.to · John Medina 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago

Your LLM Bill is a Ticking Time Bomb. Here's How to Defuse It.

Everyone's rushing to bolt LLM features onto their products. A quick look at Upwork shows thousands...

How to Track Per-User OpenAI Costs in Your Next.js App

Dev.to · John Medina 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

How to Track Per-User OpenAI Costs in Your Next.js App

So you've integrated the OpenAI API into your Next.js app. Your users love it. But then you get the...

How to Stop One Customer From Blowing Up Your Entire LLM Budget

Dev.to · John Medina 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

How to Stop One Customer From Blowing Up Your Entire LLM Budget

So your SaaS is finally getting some traction. Congrats. Then you check your OpenAI bill and realize...

Cache-hit dispersion is the 7th vendor-risk axis — and the one your invoice can't see

Dev.to · John Medina ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Cache-hit dispersion is the 7th vendor-risk axis — and the one your invoice can't see

stavros dropped a comment on hn yesterday that should have ended the per-token billing conversation...

Your prompt is getting longer without you knowing it (and it's killing your margins)

Dev.to · John Medina 1mo ago

Your prompt is getting longer without you knowing it (and it's killing your margins)

I've been looking at LLM billing patterns lately, and there's a silent killer that creeps up on...

You Don't Need Enterprise LLMOps, You Need a Better Dashboard

Dev.to · John Medina 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

You Don't Need Enterprise LLMOps, You Need a Better Dashboard

PLATAFORMA: Dev.to Token bills are getting out of hand. Everyone knows it. The default response has...

The Token Spiral: How One Runaway AI Agent Burned $2,847 in 4 Hours

Dev.to · John Medina 1mo ago

The Token Spiral: How One Runaway AI Agent Burned $2,847 in 4 Hours

traditional monitoring is completely broken when it comes to AI agents. we've all seen the...

The Overlooked Costs of Your LLM API Calls

Dev.to · John Medina 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

The Overlooked Costs of Your LLM API Calls

Everyone tracks the cost per token. It's the obvious metric. But if that's all you're watching,...

Your AI costs are growing faster than your revenue

Dev.to · John Medina 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Your AI costs are growing faster than your revenue

Most startups integrating LLMs run into the exact same wall around month 6. User growth looks great....

How I track per-customer LLM costs in production

Dev.to · John Medina 1mo ago

How I track per-customer LLM costs in production

Tracking LLM costs across an entire app is easy. Finding out which customer is actually burning...

Agents need control flow because the loop pays the bill

Dev.to · John Medina 2mo ago

Agents need control flow because the loop pays the bill

last week a post called "agents need control flow, not more prompts" went around hn (thread 48051562,...

The Hidden 43% — How Teams Are Wasting Almost Half Their LLM API Budget

Dev.to · John Medina 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

The Hidden 43% — How Teams Are Wasting Almost Half Their LLM API Budget

You look at your provider dashboard and see one number: the total bill. It's like getting an...

The week your AI coding tier got smaller

Dev.to · John Medina 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

The week your AI coding tier got smaller

In 48 hours this week, two of the biggest AI coding platforms confirmed the same thing: your...

Bun Is Porting from Zig to Rust — Here's Why That Matters If You Run LLM Workloads

Dev.to · John Medina 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Bun Is Porting from Zig to Rust — Here's Why That Matters If You Run LLM Workloads

This week Bun published its internal Zig→Rust porting guide — a signal that the runtime is migrating...

27 days to the DeepSeek V4-Pro cliff: what a 4x price jump looks like in production

Dev.to · John Medina ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

27 days to the DeepSeek V4-Pro cliff: what a 4x price jump looks like in production

So here's the thing about the deepseek v4-pro pricing schedule that has been making the rounds on hn...

You Vibe-Coded Your SaaS Landing Page — Google Can't See It

Dev.to · John Medina 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

You Vibe-Coded Your SaaS Landing Page — Google Can't See It

Look, I get it. You used Lovable or Bolt, shipped a beautiful landing page in 3 hours, and felt like...

Your LLM budget alerts won't save you if you can't map costs to users

Dev.to · John Medina 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Your LLM budget alerts won't save you if you can't map costs to users

Most devs think they have AI costs under control because they set a $500 hard cap on OpenAI. tbh,...

The Hidden 43% — How Teams Waste Half Their LLM API Budget

Dev.to · John Medina 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

The Hidden 43% — How Teams Waste Half Their LLM API Budget

The provider dashboards show you one number — your total bill. That's like getting an electricity...

Why AI Agencies are flying blind (and how to fix your LLM margins)

Dev.to · John Medina 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Why AI Agencies are flying blind (and how to fix your LLM margins)

If you're running an AI agency, you're probably building some variation of RAG or agentic workflows...

LLM prices dropped 80% — but are you actually saving money?

Dev.to · John Medina 2mo ago

LLM prices dropped 80% — but are you actually saving money?

veryone is cheering about Anthropic and OpenAI dropping API prices by 80%. It sounds great on...

AI Observability Bill Shock — 200% Cost Increase

Dev.to · John Medina 2mo ago

AI Observability Bill Shock — 200% Cost Increase

Got hit with a 200% increase on my OpenAI bill last month. Thought it was a rogue script or a bug in...

Token Prices Are Dropping, So Why Is My AI Bill Going Up?

Dev.to · John Medina 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

Token Prices Are Dropping, So Why Is My AI Bill Going Up?

Everyone's cheering the latest token price drops from OpenAI and Anthropic. Great. But my cloud bill...

Agent loops are eating your API budget

Dev.to · John Medina 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

Agent loops are eating your API budget

Everyone's shipping agents right now. ReAct, tool-calling loops, whatever. Looks great in demos....

Per-customer cost attribution without a proxy

Dev.to · John Medina 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

Per-customer cost attribution without a proxy

Most AI cost tracking solutions force you to route all your LLM traffic through their proxy. Tbh,...