The Developer's Guide to Stopping Your AI API Bill From Bleeding Cash

The Developer's Guide to Stopping Your AI API Bill From Bleeding Cash I'll never forget the first time I saw a developer's Slack message about their AI bill. They were running what they thought was a "small" chatbot for their startup. Twelve thousand dollars. Gone. One month. Just because they were blindly hitting GPT-4o for every single request, including the ones that could've been answered by a model that costs literal pennies. Here's the thing — that's wild to me. We're in 2025 and most team