Cost and Token Budget Review for Prompts
Reduce spend without losing quality.
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[VERIFY] is an editorial flag, not a blank to fill. Wherever the prompt shows [VERIFY], check that item against a reliable source before you use it.
Review the cost of my prompt-based workflow. Workflow and volume per month: [WORKFLOW_AND_VOLUME]. Prompt length and typical input and output sizes: [SIZES]. Model options and their pricing (from the provider's current price page): [PRICING]. Quality requirements: [QUALITY_REQUIREMENTS]. Return: 1. A cost model with formulas: cost per call = (input tokens x input price) + (output tokens x output price); monthly cost = cost per call x volume. Use my numbers, show the arithmetic, and label estimates (a token is not a word; use the provider's tokenizer or an approximate ratio and say which). 2. A breakdown of where tokens go: instructions, examples, retrieved or pasted documents, conversation history, output. 3. Savings ideas ranked by effect and risk: shorten instructions, reduce examples, trim inputs to the relevant parts, cache static parts if the provider supports it [VERIFY], limit output length, use a smaller model for easy steps and a larger one for hard steps, batch where possible, and avoid sending conversation history that is not needed. 4. A quality guardrail: test each saving on the test set before adoption. 5. A budget alert plan (monthly limit, usage dashboard, anomaly checks). 6. Hidden costs: review time, error handling, retries. Do not assume prices; ask me to enter current ones. Give a worked example with made-up numbers.
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