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SolutionLLM Cost Optimization Service
You don't need to hire an LLM cost engineer or rebuild your stack. We find the waste in your API spend and remove it in the gateway, with your quality checks in place.
apicuts cuts your LLM API costs at least 20% after our 10% fee, live in one day. If we miss, you pay nothing.
How it works
- Free teardown. 15 minutes on a usage export. You see your biggest waste and the first fix we'd ship.
- Live in one day. You change one base URL. We switch on caching, routing, batching, and prompt and output fixes in the gateway.
- Measured on your traffic. Cost per equivalent request against an agreed baseline, typically over 14 days, reconciled with your invoices.
- Pay only from savings. Our fee is 10% of verified savings. If your all-in bill isn't at least 20% lower after it, you pay nothing.
What we fix
- Repeated prompts billed at full price instead of cache rates.
- Long outputs and reasoning set higher than the task needs.
- The wrong model for simple requests, tested on your evals before anything changes.
- Work that could wait, moved to half-price batch.
- Retries, duplicates and agent loops that bill you twice.
What stays the same
Your models, your prompts' intent, your code and your quality bar. Every change is tested against your evaluations and can be rolled back.
Who it's for
AI startups spending $5K or more a month on LLM APIs: copilots, agents, support, voice, CRM, video and photo AI.
See pricing, the savings methodology and our guarantee terms.
Frequently asked questions
What does an LLM cost optimization service do?
It finds where your LLM API spend is wasted and fixes it: caching, output limits, model routing, batching and stopping retries and loops, without lowering quality.
How much does it cost?
Our fee is 10% of verified savings. If your all-in bill isn't at least 20% lower after that fee, you pay nothing.
How fast is it?
Live in one day: you change one base URL.
Want us to find your 20%?
Book a free 15-minute API cost teardown. Bring last month's provider usage and we'll show you your biggest waste and the first fix we'd ship.
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