A flat monthly subscription beats the API until your usage crosses a break-even point, and that point is lower than most people assume. The calculation is not about which is...
Batch processing is 50% off on Anthropic, and it is the easiest discount in the whole pricing surface to claim: the same request, the same model, half the price. The...
Prompt caching charges repeated input at a fraction of the normal rate, and for any workload with a long fixed system prompt it is the single largest cost reduction available....
Four things drive an LLM bill, and the price per token is the least interesting of them. Resent conversation history, output tokens costing several times more than input, retries, and...