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Ask HN: How are you estimating API costs before committing to an architecture?
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sarthakaggarwal
8 hours ago
2 comments
verdverm
8 hours ago
I stay relatively human-in-the-loop to keep costs down and quality up. My custom agent setup also has some "weird tricks" to keep context size down. Starting with a cheaper model like gemini-3-flash has good ROI too.
tokenbar
8 hours ago
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