Engineers
~60–90 pages
Token Economics
Cutting Your LLM Bill Without Cutting Quality
Free Ebook
EPUB + Markdown
By David Kelly Price
About This Ebook
Engineering managers, senior engineers, and platform engineers responsible for LLM-powered systems and their costs — making decisions about inference spend
What you'll learn:
- Where the Money Actually Goes
- The Token Tax: Input vs. Output Costs
- Context Compression Strategies
- Prompt Caching and When to Use It
- Model Selection and Cost-Quality Tradeoffs
- Batching, Routing, and Request Shaping
- Measuring What You're Spending
- Building a Token Budget System
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