Practical guides on cheap OpenAI and Anthropic access, OpenRouter alternatives, AI cost control, and model routing.
One shared AI endpoint can hide five different spending stories. By the time the invoice arrives, finance sees one number, platform sees one API key, and product teams argue from…
Your token unit costs dropped this year. Your AI program budget did not. That gap is the signal that your problem is no longer model pricing—it is architecture.
A multi-model stack fails quietly when routing is implicit. Requests hit whatever default was configured last quarter, downgrade paths are undocumented, and on-call learns about a…
