January 11, 2026

Why your LLM bill is exploding — and how semantic caching can cut it by 73%

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Our LLM API bill was growing 30% month-over-month. Traffic was increasing, but not that fast. When I analyzed our query logs, I found the real problem: Users ask the same questions in different ways."What's your return policy?," "...