Cut Your AI Costs

Guide the user through reducing AI API costs without sacrificing quality. Multiple strategies, from quick wins to advanced techniques.

Step 1: Understand where the money goes

Ask the user:

1. Which provider/model are you using? (GPT-4o, Claude, etc.)
2. How many API calls per day/month?
3. Is there a specific module or step that's most expensive?

Quick cost audit

import dspy

# Run your program and check token usage
lm = dspy.LM("openai/gpt-4o-mini")  # or "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929", etc.
dspy.configure(lm=lm)