AIHacker Noonabout 9 hours ago
Cut Agent Costs 90% Without Claude Opus
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A production agent pipeline saw its cloud bill jump from $4,000 to $31,000 monthly. Token volume grew only 3x but costs rose 8x. The author cut costs by 90% by not using Claude Opus for every step, reserving expensive models only for critical reasoning tasks.
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