How I Cut Our LLM Bill by 40x — A CTO's Migration Playbook
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How I Cut Our LLM Bill by 40x — A CTO's Migration Playbook Three months ago I opened our monthly infrastructure invoice and nearly choked on my coffee. We were burning through OpenAI credits faster than our growth metrics could justify. I'm the CTO of a seed-stage SaaS company, and like most engineering leaders in 2026, I'd defaulted to OpenAI because — honestly — it was the path of least resistance. Great docs, great SDKs, great model quality. But "great" doesn't pay the bills when your unit…
1Key Takeaways
- How I Cut Our LLM Bill by 40x — A CTO's Migration Playbook Three months ago I opened our monthly infrastructure invoice and nearly choked on my coffee.
- We were burning through OpenAI credits faster than our growth metrics could justify.
- I'm the CTO of a seed-stage SaaS company, and like most engineering leaders in 2026, I'd defaulted to OpenAI because — honestly — it was the path of least resistance.
- Great docs, great SDKs, great model quality.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that how I Cut Our LLM Bill by 40x — A CTO's Migration Playbook Three months ago I opened our monthly infrastructure invoice and nearly choked on my coffee.
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