· 7 days ago· Towards Data Science
India's AI Research Hubs Must Rein in Unchecked Spending Now
Most RAG systems are optimized for answer quality, not cost—and that blind spot gets expensive fast. In this article, I break down a production-ready cost control layer combining semantic caching, query routing, token budgeting, and circuit breaking, achieving an 85% reduction in LLM costs without s
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