https://blog.rajpoot.dev/tags/cost/ Recent content in Cost on Manvendra Rajpoot https://blog.rajpoot.dev/img/personal/cover.png https://blog.rajpoot.dev/img/personal/cover.png Hugo en Manvendra Rajpoot Sun, 17 May 2026 17:50:46 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-cost-optimization-2026/ Sat, 02 May 2026 07:20:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-cost-optimization-2026/ Cutting LLM costs in 2026 — prompt caching, routing, batching, fine-tunes, and the patterns that drop bills 5-20× without quality loss. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-prompt-caching-deep-dive-2026/ Fri, 01 May 2026 00:30:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-prompt-caching-deep-dive-2026/ Prompt caching mechanics in 2026 — Anthropic's ephemeral cache, OpenAI's automatic caching, breakpoint placement, hit-rate measurement, and the patterns that save real money. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/devops/k8s-cost-engineering-2026/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:30:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/devops/k8s-cost-engineering-2026/ Kubernetes cost engineering in 2026 — right-sizing requests, spot pools, Karpenter, vertical autoscaling, and the patterns that actually cut bills. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/devops/cost-optimization-cloud-2026/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/devops/cost-optimization-cloud-2026/ Cloud cost optimization tactics that work in 2026 — right-sizing, spot instances, savings plans, egress reduction, idle resource cleanup, and FinOps practices. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-routing-classification-haiku-2026/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:40:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-routing-classification-haiku-2026/ How LLM routing with a small classifier (Haiku) saves 80% on Sonnet / Opus / GPT-5 bills in 2026 — patterns, accuracy, and how to wire it in.