We are bleeding money on LLM token costs this month so what are the top ways to manage token budgets without hurting output quality?
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Fan-out diagram
The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
We are bleeding money on LLM token costs this month so what are the top ways to manage token budgets without hurting output quality?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
LLM API token cost optimization prompt caching context management batch processing official documentation 2026Google ↗
OBSERVEDInstruction
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
ChatGPT real searches (1)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 1 of 1 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
ChatGPT1 real searches · gpt-6
LLM API token cost optimization prompt caching context management batch processing official documentation 2026 Google ↗
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